Heavyweight Thorworld Yard Ramp chosen by TEREX

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• 12th April 2008
• Materials Handling
 

A mobile yard ramp from Thorworld Industries is providing the ideal loading and unloading solution for use with heavy construction equipment at the Terex facility in Warwick.

It's used for offloading new machines arriving from the company's Coventry plant and other European sites where these are not delivered on low loaders, but transported in containers or on standard 40ft long trailers. The machines are stored on site prior to delivery to UK dealers and customers, when they are then driven up the yard ramp and loaded onto trailers or into containers.

Thorworld built the special 15,000kg single axle capacity ramp, with a useable width of 2650mm instead of the standard 2250mm width, so that it could be used with the widest machines handled at the site. It replaced an elderly yard ramp, from another supplier, that an inspection revealed did not meet current Health and Safety requirements.

Terex chose the 15,000kg capacity model, the largest in the Thorworld range, so that the heaviest machines arriving at the site can use it. These are 12.5 tonne excavators made at a sister plant in Germany. The ramp has a serrated open grid deck for positive traction in all weather conditions, with a hand-operated hydraulic pump raising it to the required height. Although it's screwed to the ground the screws can be easily removed, with a built-in tow bar allowing the highly mobile ramp to be moved by fork lift to another part of the yard if and when necessary.  

For more information about Thorworld's market-leading loading and unloading equipment, and to obtain a copy of their latest product range catalogue, contact: Thorworld Industries Ltd, Station Lane Industrial Estate, Old Whittington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S41 9QX. Tel: 01246 260981. Fax: 01246 260493. Email: info@thorworld.co.uk Web: www.thorworld.co.uk

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