Loading of precast concrete components: Load beam for inloader racks
An innovative lifting device at SPL in Landaul, France, ensures efficient loading of prepicked double walls onto inloader racks. The load beam, developed by Vollert Anlagenbau, enables considerably shorter loading processes and reduces, at the same time, investment and operating costs.
Efficient and secure loading of precast concrete components presents many precasters with a challenge, especially in facilities where double and solid walls are manufactured in addition to the floor plates for floor systems. While the loading situation for floor plates is still relatively simple – taking place mostly by crane or forklift that pick up the horizontally stacked wall elements – the situation for double and solid walls is far more difficult. The main reason for this is that the elements are deposited on a rack in a vertical position. This frequently leads to an unequal load...
