Material
Handling
Bespoke solutions to protect and store
Material
Handling
Bespoke solutions to protect and store
TBD is a concept design, engineering and manufacturing specialist, able to meet almost any tailored requirement for our customers’ non-standardised needs.
Bespoke access, transportation and storage equipment are just some of the projects we have implemented from end-to-end. Applications cover civilian and military environments, conforming to the strict quality standards and operational characteristics of each.
Industrial Lifts
Safety and reliability are paramount with our range of lifts for industrial applications. Some of the world’s most advanced manufacturing and aerospace service facilities rely on TBD products to keep high value assets and employees safe. Installations often incorporate working platforms to provide integrated access systems, ensuring a fully compliant, safe, efficient working environment.
Specialist Trailers
With decades of experience providing airport cargo handling equipment, TBD has a proven track record of supplying durable and versatile trailer solutions to many different industrial sectors. Often completely bespoke, past projects have regularly incorporated customised lifting and loading systems to provide completely integrated solutions to our customer’s diverse needs.
Equipment Dollies
Unpowered dollies to move anything from tooling to product, or even injured people, are an important part of many production and industrial facilities. Robust, safe and simple to operate, TBD offer a full range of predesigned solutions or can provide bespoke products, tailored to specific and often unique requirements.
High Value Storage
Suitable storage solutions for high value products and tooling is critical to ensure future availability and reliability. TBD supply bespoke storage and transportation equipment to customers in varied industries including energy supply, aerospace and advanced research facilities. Incorporating a range of environmental controls with high quality certified structures, TBD can provide solutions for most applications.
Transportation Stands
When moving valuable or volatile products, quality and safety are as important as the precise mechanism of the transport system. Combining wide-ranging experience and a truly customer focused approach, TBD ensure there is always perfect cohesion to the design, quality and functionality of our highly bespoke handling solutions.
Military
All military organisations need to move critical assemblies, such as aircraft wings, when not in use, or during transport to alternative locations around the world. For many years, TBD have provided the global military sector with a broad range of off-the-shelf and bespoke material handling products specially designed to meet these requirements.
Feeder Air Cargo Loader
Capable of loading and unloading regional and feeder cargo aircraft, such as ATR and Cessna, as well as road transfer vehicles, TBD’s unique solution can be towed and driven into place. Any risk of damage to aircraft, trucks or GSE is totally eliminated by the approach non-contact docking system and auto stop with over run feature.
Aerospace
Engineered with purpose
TBD have a proven track record and reputation for quality and innovation in the aerospace sector. We design and manufacture a wide range of ground support equipment including cargo, baggage and passenger handling, engineering access equipment for flight line and hangar maintenance, as well as vehicle mounted access and service equipment. [Find out more]
Lifts
Intuitive, versatile, ready to rise
Personnel and material lifts can be supplied based on a predesigned range of products, or totally bespoke to meet your specific business requirements. All TBD lifts are designed and manufactured at our specialist factory in the UK, so our solutions are not restricted by using mass produced, off the shelf components. [Find out more]
Material Handling
Bespoke solutions to protect and store
TBD provide solutions to lift, carry, move and even store equipment that requires a bespoke approach. From carrying tools and equipment dollies for material in atomic research facilities, to transporting the wings and fuselage of the world’s most advanced aircraft between locations, we deliver customised solutions. [Find out more]
Working at height
Robust, safe, fit for purpose
TBD have a long history of designing innovative work at height platforms that provide industry leading solutions to height access issues. We supply a range of equipment to meet challenges of all sizes, from simple fixed-height steps through to automated, adjustable height installations for working on large items in factory, industrial or maintenance environments. [Find out more]
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