How To Lift Sheet Metal

Sheet metal fabrication safety tips.

How to lift sheet metal. Never attempt to carry an oversized piece of sheet metal by yourself. Sheet metal handling and lifting steel plates is easily done by vacuum technology. Today eric blesgraeft and javier arias show us the proper method of lifting sheet metal so that you dont strain your back or damage the materiel in the proce. Metal sheet handling at r d ergo ltd.

Wear a respirator or dust mask to prevent inhalation of sheet metal dust. It is suitable for steel including checker plate or perforated plate up to 6 mm thick. Always wear heavy duty gloves when handling sheet metal. Sheet or steel part handling reduce employee injury eliminate improper use of slings or chains to lift sheet metal or steel parts vertically increase production time no electricity required the vertical lift adapter vla combined with an imi maximum load capacity.

We recognize the complexities that are associated with metal sheet handling and those cost reductions at your facility are of critical importance to the competitiveness of your company. Mrp 31f is especially suitable for gripping ferromagnetic sheet metal. Which is why we offer a variety of vacuum sheet handling solutions designed in order to safely lift and move sheets made of a variety of materials. Using shallow field high strength laminated pole permanent magnets requiring no electric power mag frame will lift one sheet at a time from a stack.

Ixtur mrp 31f is a pneumatically controlled magnet for robotic and industrial automation. Special movable pivot in the clamp provide extra pressure on the material eliminating the risk of slippage. For vertical lifting and transporting thin sheet metal. 0 1250 to 3 3 tons.

For both magnetic and non magnetic plates vacuum offers unique advantages compared to other lifting solutions such as clamps and magnets. Tawi uk s vacuum lifters provide an efficient cost effective and secure method of meeting this challenge with a complete line of sheet lifting equipment engineered to meet a variety of dimensional capacity and application requirements. Handling sheets of wood metal glass and plastic is easy and efficient with tawi sheet lifters. Sheet metal handling and lifting steel plates.

Sheet lifting that normally require two people easily becomes a one man job with efficient and ergonomic lifting systems from tawi. Everyone can lift and tilt big sheets powered by vacuum technology. Now serpent and dove offers a safe easy to use solution with its patented mag frame steel sheet lifter. General industrial sheet plate.

All plates have an airtight surface.