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APS - COVER STORY
Working at height innovation:
maintenance engineers get spider
power boost
Leading spider platform manufacturer Hinowa has launched two important new products. Hannah
Treggalles, Marketing Director at Access Platform Sales (APS), explains their significant advantages
for maintaining buildings and the national power network.
National spider lift rental
specialist Paramount Platforms
has become the first access
hire company in the UK to take
delivery of the new Hinowa
40.18 Lightlift Performance IIIS.
“This Hinowa is
the best spider lift
in its performance
range. It’s a
gamechanger for
our clients
working up to
40 metres.”
APS, Hinowa’s UK and Ireland
distributor, has supplied the
company with the tracked spider
boom, now the largest in the
Hinowa range, with a maximum
working height of 40.2 metres
Paramount Platforms sent the
spider platform straight out on
long-term hire to support planned
maintenance at a prestigious
financial HQ building in London
The Hinowa Lightlift 40.18 has
a maximum working height of
40.2m and a maximum outreach of
17.5m, with an unrestricted basket
capacity of 230kg and, importantly,
a restricted capacity of 300kg.
‘So easy to use’
Paramount Platforms Director
Lee Kerr is impressed. He said:
“This Hinowa is the best spider
lift in its performance range. It’s a
gamechanger for working at heights
approaching 40 metres and where
significant outreach is needed.
“We almost always supply large
spider lifts with an operator. The
Hinowa 40.18 is so easy to use, if
the client has used other Hinowa
platforms, I have no qualms about
them taking the 40.18 on self-drive
hire.”
Being easy to use was not just a
nice to have. It also opened up the
possibility of hiring large platforms
to a new segment of customers, by
influencing judgements about rental
risks.
Lee Kerr said: “It’s as simple
to operate as a 17-metre Hinowa.
Members of the facilities management
team who were the first to use it were
amazed at its performance, including
how quiet it is.”
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APS Hinowa 40.18
Reduced carbon footprint
Paramount Platforms has taken
a bi-energy Hinowa 40.18, with
a low-emissions diesel engine
and lithium batteries for all-electric
zero-emissions and low carbon
operation.
This provides the rental company
with maximum flexibility for outdoor
and indoor operation, also for
working in ultra low emissions zones
and where noise-level restrictions
apply. It can also be supplied with
diesel engine only or solely with
lithium battery power.
Founded in 2009, Paramount
Platforms has one of the biggest
spider fleets in the UK, with working
heights from 15.7m to 42m, the
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biggest proportion of them Hinowa
platforms.
APS Key Accounts Director Linda
Betts, said: “Hinowa puts a huge
amount of investment into making
all their platforms extremely easy to
operate, with smart functions that
ensure they’re very safe and reliable.
“The Hinowa 40.18 typifies this
approach. Its up-and-over capability