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What the machines actually do, once they are on your floor

Six sectors make up the bulk of our installed base. Below is what we solve in each, the models that do it, and photographs from the sites themselves — including our own test floor.

Warehousing & 3PL

High-throughput pallet wrapping and dense narrow-aisle storage for distribution centres.

Warehousing & 3PL application

Cold Chain & Pharma

Freezer-rated trucks and moisture-proof wrapping for −25 °C environments and GMP plants.

Cold Chain & Pharma application

Installation gallery

14 photographs from load tests, commissioning and sites in production

Every forklift completes a rated-load lift and lower cycle before it is packed. Every wrapper is run before it is filmed. Drag the rail, or use the arrows.

14 photos — scroll to browse

1.5 m guided aisle, both rack faces

1.5 m guided aisle, both rack faces

A three-way stacker rotates its forks 180° instead of the truck, so a single 1.5 m guided aisle serves two rows of racking. Customers typically recover 30–40 % more pallet positions from the same building.

Jumbo reel wrapping in a paper mill

Jumbo reel wrapping in a paper mill

A cylinder wrapper spirals film around the full circumference of the reel while driven rollers turn the load — six-side protection with no manual handling.

Heavy roll sealed on a turntable cell

Heavy roll sealed on a turntable cell

Turntable wrapper with a powered pre-stretch carriage sealing an oversized roll before dispatch. Installed, wired and commissioned by our own engineers.

100 % laden test before packing

100 % laden test before packing

Every chassis completes a full rated-load lift and lower cycle on our test floor. Nothing ships until the mast, chains and hydraulics have proved themselves at 1.4 t and above.

Full lift and lower, at rated load

Full lift and lower, at rated load

The same test weight taken through a complete lift and lower cycle with the forks extended — the point where a weak mast, a dry chain or a mis-set limit switch shows itself.

Dense high-bay storage from a 1.9 m aisle

Dense high-bay storage from a 1.9 m aisle

Multi-directional trucks travel sideways down the aisle, so the main aisle only has to be as wide as the load — not as wide as the truck plus its turning circle.

Yard to aisle on one set of tyres

Yard to aisle on one set of tyres

An articulated truck unloads the container outside, then articulates its mast 210° and stacks inside the aisle — no second machine, no double handling.

Fleet staged for container loading

Fleet staged for container loading

Units are run in, filmed and staged together so a mixed fleet ships in one container with a single set of manuals and spares.

Man-up cabin at the top bay

Man-up cabin at the top bay

The operator rises with the forks, keeping a clear view of the pallet and the beam at 10 m and above — the difference between a placed pallet and a damaged rack.

Roll wrapping cell commissioned on site

Roll wrapping cell commissioned on site

Control cabinet, HMI and powered rollers installed and levelled in the customer's plant, with the operator trained on the actual production recipe.

Masts up, ready to load

Masts up, ready to load

Trucks are staged with masts raised so the container loading plan can be checked against actual heights before anything is lifted.

A mixed fleet, one shipment

A mixed fleet, one shipment

Different capacities, one container. Manuals, spares and the CE pack travel with the machines so commissioning does not wait for a second parcel.

Top bay reached without a camera

Top bay reached without a camera

The man-up platform rises with the forks, so the operator sees the pallet and the beam at every level — which is what keeps rack damage down.

Outdoor unloading, indoor put-away

Outdoor unloading, indoor put-away

Solid tyres take the truck across the yard and dock; the 210° mast then articulates to stack indoors, so no pallet is handled twice.

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Questions about applications and references

How do I find the machines that suit my industry?

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Start from what you are handling rather than the sector name. The application guides cover narrow-aisle pallet storage, cold stores, paper and film reels, long steel and aluminium profiles, food and beverage lines, chemical and building materials, distribution centres and container unloading — each naming the specific models and the numbers behind the choice.

Are the photographs on this site from real installations?

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Yes. Every image in the case gallery is a photograph taken at a customer site or on our own test floor in Longgang, Shenzhen. Captions and watermarks burned into some source frames were cropped away rather than retouched.

Can iPack supply a reference installation near me?

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Usually yes. Where a customer has agreed to it, we will put you in contact with a site running a comparable machine so you can see it working rather than relying on a demonstration. Ask at enquiry stage and we will check what is available in your region.

What if my application is not covered here?

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The published applications are the largest groups in our installed base, not the limit of what the machines do. Describe the load, the aisle and the throughput and we will specify it — most orders include some element built to the customer's own product.

The application guides go deeper on each sector — see all 8 of them.

Your application is probably already solved

Send a photo of the load and the aisle. Nine times out of ten we can name the machine from the picture and quote it the same day.