Handling solutions for metal coils

Metal coils in the form of sheet, strip, or wire, are a material used across a wide range of industries, such as automotive, construction, container manufacturing, tools, machinery, food and beverage and electronics.

Hyster Europe offers a number of solutions for handling different types of metal coils to support a seamless flow of materials through the supply chain.

Dedicated Hyster® trucks for handling metal coils are typically equipped with a coil ram. A single coil ram on a Hyster® fork lift truck is ideal for handling steel coils up to 54 tonnes. While double, triple, or multiple coil rams are often a good solution for handling various types of wire coils. Matching the right attachment to the job helps ensure load security, economy and durability.

With a Hyster® truck you can handle coils with a C–Hook attachment.

Popular on ReachStackers, but also available on fork lift trucks, C–Hooks can be a fast, efficient solution for handling both sheet and wire coils while reducing product damage, and allowing operations to be optimised.

A C-Hook on a Hyster® ReachStacker can allow:

• Higher density storage of coils, resulting in less travel for drop-off or pickup
• Less wear and tear and higher productivity due to less travel
• Optimal coil selectivity, as coils can be picked from the first, second or third row

For wire coil applications, kissing forks with round edges or standard forks with round fork sleeves can be used.

Hyster Europe offers a wide range of trucks which can be used for many different tasks in general purpose handling applications, or can be easily adapted when required for specific industry applications.