Narrow Aisle Flexi Euro

A UK printing machine provider has purchased two Flexi Euro forklifts to help streamline its operations.

After trialling Narrow Aisle's equipment, Heidelberg Press decided its operations would be more productive and efficient using one machine instead of three. Before purchasing the Flexi Euros, the company used stackers and counterbalance machines to unload deliveries and transfer parts.

The Flexi Euros will collect incoming goods from trailers outside and deliver them directly to the buffer store. As component parts are called off for production, the electric-powered Euros will take the parts to the assembly line.

John Maguire, sales and marketing director for Narrow Aisle, says this option means Heidelberg Press has made significant savings. "The lateral stackers they had been using could not operate outside and the counterbalance machines that unloaded incoming vehicles were too big to deliver to the line."

Narrow Aisle has fitted the Flexi Euros with quick-release attachments that enable the forklift's forks to adjust and extend hydraulically. The attachments enable the machine to handle some of the larger and unusually shaped items.