Jungheinrich is premiering a complete tow train system before a world audience at CeMAT 2014. This trade fair highlight includes two new trailers designed at Jungheinrich’s Lüneburg facility which are due to go into series production there in spring of 2014.

Jungheinrich will be unveiling two new tow trailers (type GTP and GTE) to the trade audience at CeMAT 2014. These are fundamental components of a tow train system the Hamburg-based company is launching in early 2014. “These trailers handle numerous transport orders in one go. They make the production process leaner and guarantee high provisioning security while ensuring excellent resource utilisation,” explains Oliver Rosenthal, Product Manager for Tow Trains at Jungheinrich.

GTP: Open, Strutless Portal Arches

The portal type trailer (GTP) from Jungheinrich is designed to transport payloads of up to 1,600 kilogrammes. Made of high-grade steel plate, these trailers feature open, strutless portal arches. “This provides the tractor driver an unhindered, excellent view of all the trailers in his tugger train,” reports Rosenthal.

Thanks to portal heights of up to 2,000 millimetres, loading and unloading the trailers is easy and ergonomic. The load is pushed under the portal, locked into place and lifted at the push of a button. To unload, the driver lowers the load and pushes it out under the portal arches. Jungheinrich designed the GTP for loading and unloading from both sides, irrespective of whether the trailers are coupled front to front or front to back.

GTE: Two-sided Loading and Unloading Enabled

Jungheinrich’s E-frame trailer (GTE) transports loads of up to 1,200 kilogrammes. Due to the E-frame design, operators can load and unload individual trailers from a single side only. But, according to Rosenthal: “As these trailers can be coupled no matter which way they are facing, the tow train can be loaded from both sides after all.”

The GTE features a platform for lifting and lowering the load. Clients can choose between mechanical, hydraulic and electric lifts. For loading the load is placed on a trolley, which is pushed in to the trailer, lifted and mechanically locked. For unloading the locking mechanism is released, and the load is lowered and then removed.

Flexible and Economic Material Throughput

Both trailers boast an extremely tight turning radius of about 4.000 millimetres and a very high tracking fidelity. “This makes steering the whole tow train, even in tight spaces, safe and easy,” adds Rosenthal. The number of coupled trailers is flexible, so the train capacity can be adapted to the amount to be transported. Oliver Rosenthal: “This makes for flexible and efficient material handling.” Tow trains with up to four trailers are typical configurations in production supply applications.

Jungheinrich ranks among the world’s leading companies in the material handling equipment, warehousing and material flow engineering sectors. The company is an intralogistics service and solution provider with manufacturing operations, which offers its customers a comprehensive range of forklift trucks, logistics systems, services and advice. Jungheinrich shares are traded on all German stock exchanges.