Pentalift offers a complete line of dock seals and dock shelters to suit the most common overhead door sizes.
Designs range from foam and air inflatable seals to rigid, flexible and air inflatable dock shelters.
All Pentalift dock seals and shelters are designed to improve safety, protect merchandise, reduce cost and to improve security at the loading dock.
Contact your Pentalift Sales Representative for additional information.
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The loading and unloading of goods and equipment requires certain safety procedures. Loading docks are easy places for injury if you’re not careful. Spills, slips and equipment error are all things that can go wrong on your dock, but there are ways to prevent problems. To ensure your loading dock doesn’t become a workplace hazard, follow these tips:
Keep the floors dry
Oily, wet floors create slippery surfaces that can cause trips and falls. Keep your loading dock dry even when it’s ... Read More
Businesses that involve shipping, receiving and handling pallets of any size can benefit from loading docks. No matter what type of goods your business deals with, there’s a great advantage to installing loading docks.
Here are five ways that loading docks can improve your business:
They’re safeAny warehouse equipment you use -- whether it’s a forklift, a pallet or a loading dock -- needs to be safe. The great thing about loading dock technology is that it’s design has Operator s... Read More
Hydraulic Dock Levelers use a push button control to operate the dock leveler. When the button is pushed, an electric motor starts and a hydraulic cylinder is used to raise the platform. A second hydraulic cylinder extends the lip assembly. When the dock attendant releases the control button, the dock leveler automatically lowers into position on the truck bed.
Air Powered Dock Levelers, though structurally the same, use a push button control station to operate a 115/1/60 pneumatic blower to ... Read More
Loading dock information regularly references TENV Electric Motors and TEFC Electric Motors. What is the difference? TENV stands for Totally Enclosed Not Ventilated Electric Motors. These are used in a wide variety of smaller horsepower applications. This type of electric motor radiates its excess heat through the body of the motor. It is commonly built with special high temperature insulation. TEFC stands for Totally Enclosed, Fan-Cooled Electric Motor.
These are constructed with a small fan... Read More
Hydraulic conversion kits are used to convert a structurally sound, mechanically activated dock leveler to full hydraulic operation. If a mechanical dock leveler is to be replaced due to operational problems, there are two approaches that can be investigated. One is to completely remove the existing dock leveler and replace with a hydraulic dock leveler. However if the original dock leveler deck assembly, lip assembly, hinge pins and spools are structurally sound, then a hydraulic conversion kit... Read More
There are a lot of mistakes and omissions that hydraulics users make at the loading dock that end up costing them a lot of money afterwards. Here are a few tips to help in maintaining the equipment and reduce your costs:
Hydraulic Leveller versus Mechanical Leveller
The cost of purchasing a hydraulic leveller is quite high, but over a ten-year period, a mechanical leveller will have cost you nearly twice as much in repairs and replacement parts. Though the lower initial cos... Read More
Interlocking dock equipment is becoming more common than ever. Interlocking the equipment improves safety at the loading dock area and also reduces potential for loading dock area equipment damage. First let’s identify some of the equipment that is commonly interlocked...usually equipment such as hydraulic dock levelers, vehicle restraints, overhead doors and inflatable dock seals. For example if the hydraulic dock leveler is interlocked to the overhead door, the door must be open before the d... Read More
The Edge of Docks, commonly referred to as EOD’s, are offered both in a mechanically operated version, the EDML, and in a hydraulically operated version, the EHD. The EDML mechanical version is supplied with an actuating bar that the dock attendant uses to raise and position the EOD on the truck bed for loading to begin. There are loading dock applications that have a specific requirement for equipment that is physically easy for the operator to use, in this case a hydraulic version is availab... Read More
Companies have lots of reasons to become more environmentally conscious, and one of them is efficiency. Saving energy is not only good for the planet, it is good for business. Managers are seeking more ways to become cost effective in their operations, and going green is one of the most practical ways to accomplish this.
Warehouse docks can be quite large, and due to the busy nature of warehouses there are plenty of opportunities for large amounts of energy to escape-during winter and summer ... Read More