Project Profile – Lanxess Oleum Loading Facility

SafeRack was approached by Senior Mechanical Engineer, Richard Davenport, to provide a Turn-key offering for a single spot rail loading solution. Adamant about having one point of contact for the full completion of the project. SafeRack performed a site visit and quickly found their custom fall protection and loading procedure to be cumbersome and unsafe. Due to the extreme caution that comes with loading Oleum an upgrade was a must. As a result, SafeRack designed and installed a railcar loading platform canopy with a MaxRack elevating safety cage solution.  Our MaxRack safety cage takes safety to another level so the operators can provide full attention to loading such a potent product.  We were able to repurpose existing equipment to reduce the cost of equipment needed and demolition performed.

Although no two Oleum Loading solutions will be identical, the product itself determines much of the critical design criteria that will ensure that optimum safety and productivity can work together in harmony.  What is Oleum?

• Many standard cage configurations available
• Units available for both truck and railcar applications
• The counterweighted design allows for smaller, less expensive drive components
• Pneumatic or electric motor drive options
• Off the shelf replacement parts available quickly & easily
• Robust galvanized steel columns and carriage
• Patent-pending manual override or raise/ lower in case of power or air pressure loss

The new MaxRack powered elevating handrail system is the only elevating safety cage on the market that can be raised and lowed manually if your facility loses power or plant air. The unique counterbalanced cage design coupled with our exclusive dual input gearbox enables smooth operation as well as the ability for the operator to manually raise and lower the cage with ease in the event of a power loss.