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PALLET INVERTER IS ‘BEST FRIEND’

When talking with a warehouse operator and Engineer Mike Critchlow at Ego Pharmaceuticals in Braeside, Victoria, I was advised that the King Pallet Inverter had become the warehouse operator’s ‘best friend’.

Now call me old fashioned, but a piece of machinery that rotates pallet loads 180 degrees, is hardly something that you can take to the pub. But I guess the next best thing is to have a ‘mate’ who is willing to do all the hard work for you, to never complain, and to save you from back pain or possible injury.

You see, Ego Pharmaceuticals are the makers of a range of truly wonderful products – one I especially love and the whole family uses, is the Aqium Gel antibiotic hand wash - with no water involved. It just evaporates and leaves your hands clinically clean in two seconds!

SunSense sun protect lotion, starts off lilac in colour, so you can see where it has been applied, and how thickly by the shade – which by the way fades to colourless, is another wonderfully innovative product which along with other clever products, have captured the imagination of the world. This has created dramatic growth of their products overseas, including a new fully owned subsidiary in Singapore – with all products being made in Melbourne!

All of this export activity, has driven the need to exchange pallets from standard Australian size to export size, and the quickest way to do this is by using the King Pallet Inverter.

Prior to the Inverter, up to 20 pallets a week of up to 90 cartons per pallet, were being transferred by hand onto export pallets. This figure is now at 40 pallets per week – and rising!

At an average of one minute to transfer each carton (including pallet changes, etc), this equates to 75 hours of bending, lifting and rotating with up to 10 Kg cartons. In other words, the equivalent of one persons wage per week, just to transfer cartons from one pallet to another, without counting the toll taken on a persons body and the potential for time off or in an extreme case a claim for back strain or injury.

Ego Pharmaceuticals, being way ahead of the OH&S needs of their staff, figured out that a pallet inverter was the answer, and decided to opt for the all mechanical version (don’t want oil on our very clean warehouse floor) from King, which Mike describes as ‘rock solid’.

Now, the King Pallet Inverter automatically senses the load clamping pressure, then with a soft start and stop, rotates a load in 30 seconds, with no effort whatsoever from staff, giving a payback time of between 9 – 12 months.