Clay products manufacturer Ibstock Brick Ltd is getting more productivity and uptime at it's facility in St Helens, Merseyside thanks to a new fleet of Hyster Fortens forklift trucks supplied through Barloworld Handling.

To assist with the fully automated process, the Roughdales site has recently taken delivery from Barloworld Handling of three new Hyster Fortens H4.0FT Advance forklift trucks, each equipped with a double pallet handler attachment which doubles the number of handling cycles per hour. One of the trucks is used to support the production process, while the others are used for two eight-hour shifts, Monday to Friday, to off-load the packs of 500 bricks from the production line, and store them in the stockyard. The machines are also used to load trucks for customer deliveries.