If you buy, hire or manufacture steel stillages, cages or metal pallets, one question comes up again and again: which regulations actually apply, and what does compliant equipment look like? It is an important question. A stillage is not just a storage box – it is work equipment, it is often a lifted load, and…
A requirement of many of our clients is that their stillages are load tested. This is a very logical and sensible approach to ensuring that both product and personnel are protected from any risk of damage and injury.
Stillages are used for the safe storage of goods, they are often stacked on top of each other…
Value engineering is the discipline of getting the most function out of a product for the least cost, without compromising quality, safety or performance. For steel stillages and cages, it means designing to what the job actually demands, rather than over-building "just in case" or paying for material and labour that add weight and expense…
A management system is defined as a set of processes and techniques used to ensure that an entity fulfils all of its duties in order to accomplish its goals. We can see a growing trend in a lot of corporate or family-owned organisations from various industries, such as service, manufacturing, and engineering, that are looking…
Getting stillage dimensions right is the single most important step in specifying handling equipment that actually works for your product, your forklifts and your vehicles. A stillage that is a few millimetres too tall to stack, too wide to load two-abreast on a trailer, or fitted with fork pockets that do not match your truck…
Here at LoweUK we now have the capability and experience to carry out CAE on any solutions we design. This blog entry intends on developing our customers knowledge on what CAE is, when it should be carried out and what the benefits to you as a customer are.
What is CAE?
CAE, is an acronym for…
Fork guides are one of the most important features on any stillage, cage or pallet that will be lifted or moved by a forklift, telehandler or side loader. They locate the forks in a controlled position, stop the load shifting on the tines and make handling faster and safer. On our engineered steel stillages and…
When you buy steel handling equipment for a demanding environment, certification is not a nice-to-have; it is the evidence that the product is fit for the job. Buyers in sectors such as nuclear, marine, automotive and power generation routinely ask us the same question: what is actually involved in CE and UKCA accreditation, and how…
Why Choose a Lowe Stillage?
Often when customers specify their requirements, they are structured around Cost, Quality and Delivery.
Here at LoweUK this is where our focus starts, during each step of our processes these 3 requirements are at the core. This blog post will aim to give you an insight into how we go from…
Steel Definitions
Although the supply of structural steel can come in many shapes and styles, the definition of those materials can become a little confusing when they are abbreviated.
Typically, most types of steel supply have a degree of nomenclature that can be abbreviated for ease of identification.
As steel selection is dependent upon the…
A collapsible metal pallet is a robust steel container that folds flat when it is empty, then locks back into a rigid stacking unit when you need to store or move goods. For UK warehouses, manufacturers and logistics operators wrestling with limited floor space and rising transport costs, that simple ability to collapse can make…
Off-the-shelf stillages come in a wide range of sizes, designs and materials, from steel and aluminium to plastic. If you have been searching for a stillage to suit your handling needs, you may have found several designs with roughly the same dimensions, all claiming to carry similar loads. Often the only obvious difference is the…