The collaboration between French company PAM and industrial lifting SME ACIMEX began many years ago. This partnership is based on trust, and on ACIMEX’s capacity to always conceive adapted and tailor-made solutions. Once again, ACIMEX delves into its own innovative skills for the leader of ductile iron pipes solutions, acknowledged for its water and wastewater networks.
ACIMEX has patented a range of pipe nesting vacuum lifters for cast iron pipes produced by PAM, ranging from DN 200 to DN 1500 diameters. This range of vacuum lifter has been conceived by ACIMEX and developed in collaboration with PAM ; it is composed of 3 types of lifters, which SWL goes from 1.5T to 6.5T, for the lifting and nesting of pipes of different sizes.
The pipe nesting lifter is used with a standard excavator to allow the manipulation, the lowering into the trenches and the nesting of the PAM cast iron pipes in optimum conditions.
Thanks to this process, ACIMEX improves :
- Operators’ safety
- Site productivity
- Quality of the insertion procedure
There are numerous advantages with this ACIMEX equipment :
- Pipe gripping by suction pads, preserving the integrity of the load
- Cameras et visualization screen in the cabin, to render guiding, docking and aligning easier from the cabin
- Alignment of the 2 pipes operated by the machine for optimum conditions during nesting
- Control of the nesting effort, which allows quality control and nesting validation
- No hazardous handling with slings, gain of both precision and time
- No need to use an operator in the trench for the handling and nesting, for a safer environment
If you’re interested in this technology, the ACIMEX team will be happy to answer your questions.
ACIMEX, the expert in heavy handling, can work with you on your projects. Please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or ask us for a quote.