Apexis Engineering have designed and supplied a wide range of customised equipment into industrial workplaces that have improved the safety of lifting. For this specific lifting equipment project, a bespoke pallet lifter for the brick industry, we provided significant benefits in terms of safety and operational effectiveness.

The project brief provided the details on our client’s very clear challenge which was how to extract 18,000 pallets from an old system and insert them into the new one both safely and efficiently. The pallets are made from galvanised steel; each weighed 12kg and measured 2200 x 260 x 35mm. Wet bricks are placed onto the pallets during the manufacturing process. These were then transported to the dryers, after which the dried bricks are removed ready for firing and the pallets returned to go around the loop again. Stacks of pallets were 2600mm high and weighed over 5 tonnes which were held in a buffer store. Our design process took into consideration the data above with the additional considerations on operator usage, moveability of the pallet lifter around the site and installation process.