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In short

iPack publishes eight application guides covering the material-handling problems that make up most of its installed base. Each page states the problem with real numbers, names the machines specified for it, and answers the questions buyers ask first — so a specifier can go from problem to model without a sales call.

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1.5 m guided aisle, both rack faces
Narrow-aisle warehousing

How do you store more pallets without extending the building?

Use a very-narrow-aisle (VNA) three-way stacker: it rotates its forks 180° and side-shifts instead of turning, so a guided aisle of 1.5 m serves racking on both sides. iPack VNA trucks lift from 0.8 t to 1.6 t, reach 14 m, and typically recover 30–40 % more pallet positions from the same floor area.

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Top bay reached without a camera
Cold chain

Which forklift and wrapper work reliably below −25 °C?

A standard truck fails in a freezer: lubricants thicken, displays fog, seals harden and battery capacity collapses. iPack builds the SF-1400M-CS man-up VNA stacker with cold-chain electrics, low-temperature hydraulic oil and a heated sealed cabin, rated for continuous operation at −25 °C in aisles from 1.65 m.

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Jumbo reel wrapping in a paper mill
Reels & rolls

How do you wrap a paper reel on all six sides automatically?

A reel cannot go on a turntable — the ends stay exposed. The SW-2000D places the reel on driven rollers, turns it while the turntable rotates, and spirals film around the full circumference, covering all six sides. A pneumatic ejector discharges the finished reel so the cycle never stops for manual unloading.

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Dense high-bay storage from a 1.9 m aisle
Long product

How do you wrap and store long profiles without wasting half the floor?

Long loads dictate the whole layout: a conventional truck needs room to swing a six-metre bundle, and a turntable cannot hold it. iPack solves this with the SW-3000D horizontal ring wrapper, which spirals film as the profile passes through, and multi-directional forklifts that travel sideways so the aisle is only as wide as the load.

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Heavy roll sealed on a turntable cell
Food & beverage

How do you wrap 30 pallets an hour without an operator at the machine?

Put the turntable on the conveyor. The SW-7000D uses a powered roller deck (φ89 mm rollers on a 100 mm pitch) as its turntable, so pallets roll in, wrap, seal and roll out with no forklift at the wrapper. Throughput is 20–40 pallets per hour with 250 % film yield.

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Dense high-bay storage from a 1.9 m aisle
Chemical & building

How do you weatherproof bags, drums and block pallets for outdoor storage?

Sides are not enough — rain and dust arrive from above. The SW-1000D adds a top-sheet module to a 2 000 kg turntable wrapper: a PE cover sheet is laid over the load and the stretch film is wrapped over its edge, sealing the two into one skin. Five-side protection, one pass, remote-controlled.

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Dense high-bay storage from a 1.9 m aisle
Distribution & 3PL

How do you raise pallet throughput without adding floor or labour?

Two changes move the needle: take the forklift out of the wrapping step, and raise storage density. iPack combines in-line wrappers running 20–40 pallets per hour with VNA stackers that serve both rack faces from a 1.5 m guided aisle — more pallets out per hour and more pallets in per square metre.

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Yard to aisle on one set of tyres
Docks & containers

How do you unload a container and put away without double handling?

Use a truck that works outside and inside. The SF-2000M articulated forklift has solid rubber tyres for yard and dock work and a mast that articulates through 210°, so it stacks in aisles from 1.9 m once it is indoors. One machine replaces the yard truck and the narrow-aisle truck, removing a whole handling step.

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