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Lifting safety and efficiency levels
June 1st 2008

The production of aircraft seat components at BE Aerospace has been made safer and more efficient following the supply of Benco handling equipment from Brixworth Engineering Co.

The equipment has been installed in the resin transfer moulding section at Kilkeel in Northern Ireland.

Individual moulding cells have overhead rail-mounted scissor lifts with rotating lift platforms, hydraulically operated via pendant controllers. Rail mechanisms allow horizontal movements up to 4.5 x 7.5m of the supported loads either fore and aft or side to side.

The scissor lift movement provides a total lift of 1.25m (at heights of 1 to 2.5m above floor level) with a 360° rotation of the lift platform. All operations are carried-out safely and with minimum operator effort.

Each RTM tool requires two lid lifts. As individual lids weigh 0.5 or 1t, the handling logistics become daunting. The Benco scissor lift equipment has resulted in a 300% saving in RTM lid transfer times compared to the previous fork lift truck procedure and eliminated potentially hazardous handling operations.

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