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Boosting Warehouse
In Ireland and across Europe, warehouse operators are facing sustained pressure
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n today’s fast-paced environment, where both space and time come at a premium, optimising storage capacity and speeding up material with more versatile material handling equipment can deliver measurable gains in productivity, safety Manufactured by the Irish specialist Combilift,
the Aisle Master VNA range is designed to replace a combination of other forklifts, such as counterbalance and reach trucks, that have traditionally been used in many warehouse include the limited indoor operation of reach trucks and the wider aisle space they require switching from one type of truck to another often leads to double handling, which is time- With the universal one-truck solution that is
the Aisle Master, loads can be transported directly from the yard to indoor storage facilities, and on, and thanks to large rubber tyres, they are at With the ability to operate in working aisle
storage capacity in the existing warehouse by 50 per cent compared with counterbalance or reach In times of growth or expansion, for example, optimising racking layouts according to the trucks’ abilities can avoid the need to extend current premises or relocate, both of which are costly, ‘Improving and not moving’ is also a much more sustainable course of action and accords with many companies’ wishes to reduce their carbon Combilift’s CEO and Co-Founder Martin McVicar explains,“We have always seen Combilift as much more than a designer and manufacturer one of the most valuable assets our customers possess, and if our trucks can make it work better for them in terms of storage density, for warehouse space coupled with ever-rising business costs means that space optimisation is Combilift offers a free warehouse design and
layout service delivered by its experienced design of Combilift equipment, sometimes doubling available storage capacity while improving safety Aisle Masters are available with various power
impressive lift height of up to 15m also enables every centimetre of vertical space to be used for
CUSTOMER APPLICATION headquarters in Massachusetts, has a number of Its four Aisle Masters have ensured maximum storage density, with 3,000 pallet spaces now accommodated in a relatively small warehousing the 1900mm aisle widths and the very limited byproduct is improved productivity and faster
Bernotas states, “We have been able to reduce the number of forklifts thanks to the trucks’ ability the yard, speeding operations across the twelve- manoeuvrability enables them to move easily around the machinery in the production areas
www.Combilift.com 8 January/February 2026 Irish Manufacturing
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