Southworth Products Corp. based in Portland Me. (USA) has a new manual palletizer that can be fed with a hand pallet truck!
The new Roll-In Level Loader features a unique low-profile design that allows it to be fed with an ordinary hand pallet truck.
Simply pick up the palletized load (on any type of open-bottom pallet or skid), raise the pallet truck and roll the load into position.
The pallet moves over the Roll-In while the pallet truck rolls in between the outside platform and center support beam.
The load is uniformly positioned and the pallet truck can be lowered and rolled out of the way. The company says that by eliminating the need for forklifts, costs are reduced and productivity is increased.
Workers can access loads from all four sides with minimum reach over while a foot switch control allows for hands-free positioning of loads, and a full perimeter toe guard provides an added measure of safety.
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BlastGard International, along with Nordisk Aviation Products, is offering a new line of cargo containers that have explosion-mitigating properties for widebody aircraft.
BlastGard has combined its BlastWrap technology with Nordisk ULD to create a container able to reduce blast pressures at vulnerable locations on an aircraft.
BlastWrap's technology is based on "well-defined principles" and can suppress blast pressures by 50% - and often by much more - the company says.
Its products are made from two flexible films arranged one over the other and joined by a plurality of seams filled with attenuating filler material (volcanic glass beads or other suitable two-phase materials) that can be configured with a blend of extinguishing agents that protect against fire as well as the blast over pressure.
James Gordon, BlastGard's CEO says his company's system can be employed in new ULDs or retrofitted into existing ones.
The modified unit weighs slightly more than a standard container, and reduces available volume by a few percent, but at a "very low cost," according to Mr. Gordon, who adds that the product vastly improves the chances of an aircraft's survival in the event of a midair explosion, such as the one that occurred aboard Pam Am 103 in 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. More Info. Click Here

Qantas ordered Teledyne Controls' wireless quick access recorder (WQAR) for installation on its new A380s to automate the recording and transmission of its flight data.
The Australian carrier has ordered twelve A380s from Airbus, with options for twelve more.
Teledyne Controls' Wireless GroundLink records raw data during flight and then compresses, encrypts, and transmits them via cellular technology and the Internet to the airlines' or Teledyne's ground-based processing and analytical systems within 15 minutes after landing. For More Info. Click Here