THERE'S A LOAD MORE IN NEW THORWORLD CATALOGUE

The latest catalogue from loading and unloading specialists, Thorworld
Industries, is packed full of new products and aimed at specifiers and
purchasers of loading bay and associated materials handling equipment.

The 44-page full colour catalogue provides information and technical
specifications for the company's growing product line-up, covering
everything needed for efficient materials handling solutions.

Products range from equipment for loading and unloading where there is
no loading dock, such as mobile yardramps and modular docks, to the
Truckloada mobile yardlift, for use where there is no room for a yardramp.
There are full details of Thorworld's popular RentARamp service, which
provides high quality, standard or purpose-designed aluminium or steel
mobile yardramps for purchase or hire, on a sale or return basis.

The company's wide variety of ramps ranges from multipurpose versions to
special models designed to provide wheelchair access.
A section of the catalogue is devoted to giving advice on the important
points to consider when buying ramps, such as ensuring they fully meet
all the relevant European safety standards and directives.

Thorworld Managing Director, John Meale, said: "This is an extremely
important and topical subject considering the current problems with
inferior loading dock equipment, which does not have the CE mark, coming
into the UK. Using materials handling equipment that does not carry
the CE mark, whether imported or not, threatens the health and safety of
personnel in the workplace and businesses could be risking prosecution
if they use it".

As an active member of the British Materials Handling Federation (BMHF)
and the Association of Loading and Elevating Equipment Manufacturers
(ALEM), Thorworld Industries has been closely involved in the
preparation and development of European safety standards.

John Meale is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics (FCILT),
a former President of the BMHF, a past Chairman of ALEM and is currently
a board member of the Federation Europeenne de la Manutention (FEM), the
European Federation of Materials Handing, and is also President of the
FEM Product Group on Elevating and Loading Equipment.

New products in the brochure include the Dockloada scissor lift
platform. The fixed unit can be installed either inside or outside a
building or door and can accommodate a much larger range of vehicle
heights than dock levellers, from double deck trailers to transit vans.
Trucks featured include pallet and sack models, including a powered
version capable of dealing with loads up to 2,000 Kg at speeds of up to
9km/h, and a counterbalanced container lift truck.

To bridge and seal the gap between a truck and loading dock are a wide
selection of dock plates and dockboards, dock levellers and seals &
shelters.

Among new dock loading and unloading aids are an electro-mechanical
vehicle wheel lock, which secures virtually any trailer type by engaging
the driver's side rear tyre with an integral steel barrier, and a steel
wheel chock.

Also new is the Dock Guardian safety barrier which helps prevent fork
trucks, pallet trucks and personnel from falling off a loading dock. It
is designed to stop a weight of 4.5 tonnes travelling up to 4 mph, with
little or no damage to the safety barrier.

Other restraint and protection products featured include sleeping
policemen, vehicle restraints, safety bollards, protector
brackets/curbs, flexi safety barriers, impact protectors and stabiliser
plates.

Thorworld Industries is firmly established as a leading, one-stop,
single source supplier to the loading bay and materials handling
sectors, with numerous prestigious customers in distribution, logistics,
transport, retailing, food, drink manufacturing and the service industries.

BSI registered with ISO 9002 accreditation since 1992 and with CE mark
certification, it was one of the first companies in the industry to
achieve the latest ISO 9001:2002 international quality management standard.
For further information about their market-leading loading bay
equipment, and to obtain a copy of the new product range catalogue,
contact: Thorworld Industries Ltd, Station Lane Industrial Estate, Old
Whittington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S41 9QX. Tel: 01246 260981.
Fax: 01246 260493. Email: info@thorworld.co.uk Web: www.thorworld.co.uk