WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ACTION – MATERIAL HANDLING
When bigger is better LIEBHERR’S LH 50 M INDUSTRY LITRONIC MATERIAL HANDLER IS BUILT TO MAKE TOUGH JOBS EASIER.
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ony Ditrih knows his stuff. The Mechanical Engineer, and Equipment Manager at Sell & Parker, knows that machinery needs to be tough to cut it in the scrap metal industry. As he puts it, “you can’t have little Tonka toys”. Tony says Sell & Parker was one of the first in the scrap yard industry to buy a Liebherr material handler. As of February, the company has five LH 50 M Industry Litronic material handlers working across eight facilities and another on the way. “We have to have the larger machines,” Tony says. “The bigger reach you have, the more productive you are.” Sell & Parker has more than 50 years’ experience dealing with all aspects of scrap collection and recycling and is one of only three accredited suppliers to Bluescope Steel. It handles everything from small deliveries of 10 kilograms, such as small backyard clean-ups, to thousands of tonnes of scrap including steel, aluminium, copper, brass and stainless-steel. Tony says it’s the larger jobs where the LH 50 M comes into its own. “In our industry, you’ve got to stack the cars up high and be able to move around the piles,” he says. “The smaller machines we used to have only had a reach of 15.3 metres, it’s not long enough. The biggest reach the LH 50 M has is 18 metres – that’s a more comfortable range for us.” Since its foundation in 1949 Liebherr has decades of experience
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The LH 50 M has an 18-metre reach, making it ideal to stack and sort materials.
