In logistics, especially in the food and beverage industry, trends show an increased interest in palletless handling, looking for space and cost savings. 

The adoption of the slip-sheet is a valuable option to the traditional wooden pallet. Made of cardboard, the slip-sheet is easy to dispose and recycle and is considered to be an eco-friendly and sustainable material handling option. Thanks to the extremely reduced thickness (100 slip-sheets are about 1 pallet) it is possible to stove more goods in containers or wagons and in the warehouse.

This transport method is widely adopted in the USA and is now growing in Europe, mainly at export companies shipping their goods overseas.

The solution to slip-sheet handling

Products of every kind are being handled on slip-sheets instead of wooden pallets.

Slip-sheets are being used in various industries such as food, beverage, glassware, building materials, agricultural, paper, chemical, hardware and the automotive parts industry.

Bolzoni Auramo has the solution to all your slip-sheet handling needs. A complete range of Push Pulls engineered and designed for today’s most demanding applications. The Dedicated Push Pull for the customer using exclusively slip sheeted loads and the Easy Rider Fork-Mounted Push Pull for operations requiring slip-sheets on an intermittent or part time basis.

Bolzoni Auramo Fork-Mounted Push Pull model Easy Rider

Ideal model for those companies where the handling of goods on slip-sheets is not sufficient to justify the use of a dedicated fork lift truck, the Fork-Mounted Push Pull model Easy Rider is engineered for operations requiring slip-sheets on an intermittent or part time basis. It offers the possibility to convert a conventional fork lift truck with forks into a specially equipped machine to handle loads on slip-sheets.

This attachment is particularly suitable for logistics companies or 3PL where every day is required to handle both palletized goods and loads with slip-sheet. 

For example, an Italian customer, producer of a worldwide sold and appreciated Italian amaretto, in order to optimize shipping space and therefore costs, has been handling his valuable bottles using the Bolzoni Auramo Easy Rider push pull for many years.

Thanks to this fork mounted attachment, with quick disconnect hooks and couplings, the customer is able to use the same forklift truck, switching handling from palletized goods to loads on slip sheet, in a short time.

Main features:

• The driver enters the forks under the platens, tilts the mast forward, lifts the carriage up, engages the upper hooks, locks the lower mounting hooks in place and connects the quick-change hydraulic couplings.
• Converting time: one minute.

Bolzoni Auramo Dedicated Push Pull

The Dedicated Push Pull is a carriage mounted model, dedicated to support companies using palletless handling constantly for loading or unloading containers, to ship and store a wide variety of boxed, bagged, unboxed, cylindrical or rolled goods using slip-sheets. The results are lower pallet costs, reduced pallet handling labor and pallet returns, and higher payloads.

The main features are:

• Pushing plate and gripper jaw with larger window to improve visibility.
• Tilting push plate and quick-change hooks included.
• Advantageous weight and lost load to maximize lift truck residual capacity.

The Bolzoni Auramo Push Pull range is completed by the Mark 55 Push Pull, specifically developed to suit the American market needs. It is suitable for handling both slip-sheeted loads and pallets.

For more information on palletless handling Solutions, get in touch with the Bolzoni Group Specialist, send an email and ask for our references on Push Pull Handling Solutions, or to organize a demo unit at your facilities.  

Visit the dedicated Push Pull section on our web site and contact us by email, or contact the nearest BOLZONI AURAMO and MEYER representative.

Bolzoni Auramo and Meyer are Bolzoni Group brands.

Bolzoni is a market leader in the production of forklift truck attachments, forks and lift tables. The company has manufacturing plants in Italy, Germany, Finland, America and China and through its network of direct branches and independent dealers, covering all continents it is able to satisfy all market requirements.