Vaculex offers airport baggage handling using lifting equipment.

Vaculex offers airport baggage handling using lifting equipment based on vacuum technology. The Vaculex BaggageLift is an ergonomic solution to the high injury risks associated with manual baggage handling.

The design concept of the Vaculex BaggageLift, developed by Vaculex in Sweden, was to create a lifting aid that was operator friendly and easy to work with, ensuring that operators had a viable alternative to manual handling. Loading and unloading baggage from a chute, conveyer belt or baggage loader to carts should be as quick and easy as manual handling.

The result is an ergonomic user friendly unit that only weighs a little over 5Kg. The Vaculex BaggageLift uses vacuum to lift and grip the bag, this results in the equipment being very comfortable to use, and the instant release means that there are no hooks involved, so there are no handles or straps to locate.

The unit is mounted to a light aluminium overhead rail system. This enables any work area to be covered and several units to be installed in one work area. This specially designed light rail system is only 1.3Kg per metre which means only low forces are required to move the bridge, which in turn makes this system ideal for high frequency handling.

Vaculex has worked closely with NIOSH studies and these have found that the repetitive handling of lighter loads such as 15Kg can also be as dangerous as lifting heavier loads.

When using the Vaculex BaggageLift, operators do not have to lift any weight and therefore do not have to be strong or suffer from fatigue.

Since its launch in 2006, Vaculex BaggageLift has been installed in many leading airports across Europe and the US.

To compliment the Vaculex BaggageLift, Vaculex also have the Vaculex TP which works with the same technology but lifts boxes and packages. The Vaculex TP has been a great help within the Air Cargo sector with the breakdown and sortation of air cargo pallets.

For more information, contact

David Collins, Sales Director

+44 (0) 121 380 4460

info@vaculex.com or visit www.vaculex.com