Hird Sales will be showing off the most advanced and innovative robotic glazing and crane lifting equipment available in the UK at FIT Show 2025. The company’s stand will be packed with technology that makes lifting and installing glass easier, safer, faster, more cost-effective and more sustainable.
The Hird Sales team is excited by the prospect of showing what the equipment from Winlet, Maeda and WienoldLifte can do at the show taking place from April 29 to May 1 at the NEC in Birmingham.
Carl Cooper, Sales and After-Sales Manager at Hird Sales, said: “This is the largest amount of equipment we’ve every taken to FIT Show 2025.
“We’re confident visitors to our stand will be very impressed by the way the kit can make their work safer and more productive – in ways they’ll see will impress their clients, as well.”
See new slewing glazing robots
There will be two Winlet glazing robots on the stand – the Winlet 1000 with a new slewing head, and the Winlet 400TL.
The slewing head on the Winlet 1000, which has a lifting capacity of 1,000kg, allows full loads to be hydraulically slewed to either side of the robot, as well as tilted up and down.
This new functionality makes it easier to install glass in particularly constrained space where there is not room to set up the robot directly in front of the aperture.
It also allows panels to be installed, with millimetre precision, in any plane within the glazing robot’s operating envelope without the machine having to be repositioned.
Both the Winlet 1000 The Winlet 400TL are battery electric powered and can complete long shifts on one charge with no loss of power.
The Winlet 400TL’s four vacuum cups have a maximum lifting capacity of 415kg, with a dual cylinder system so loads are safely held at all times.
Like the Winlet 1000, it can be used to lift glass, plasterboard, wood, plastic and sheet metal and, when fitted with specialist vacuum cups, non-smooth materials as well, including glass-reinforced concrete sheets.
The Winlet 400TL has two hydraulic boom sections that provider greater reach. It also has all-terrain capability, and a linear side-shift function holds glass panels in the same plane for precision installation.
Transport glass across surfaces
Hird Sales will be showing off four impressive materials trolleys at FIT Show 2025.
They include the Winlet ErgoMover Wireless, a remote-controlled electric trolley. It’s one of a family of high-performance electric trollies available exclusively in the UK and Ireland from Hird Sales.
With a maximum SWL of 1500kg, its hydraulic carrying deck can pick up products, for example plasterboard and plywood sheets, from trestles and set them down again at work sites.
Models across the Winlet ErgoMover increase productivity by allowing materials to be moved more efficiently by smaller teams and greatly improve safety by eliminating materials handling risks.
Also on the stand will be two all-terrain glass trollies, including the Compact Rough Terrain Trolley.
It weighs 65kg and has a maximum carrying load of 600kg, with the ability to carry sheets of glass that are up to 6000mm long and 3400mm high.
The Compact Rough Terrain Trolley can be extended to 1700mm, and is 1800mm high and 815mm deep. Its larger wheels copes more easily with uneven terrain, for example on construction sites.
For exhibition visitors who need basic glass transportation support, there will be the lightweight slab buggy glass trolley, which has a capacity of 400kg, designed to be transported in a small van.
High-performance glass vacuum lifters
Hird Sales will also be showing off two below-the-hook Kappel glass vacuum lifters – the DSKE2 and the DSKZL2.
The Kappel DSKE2 is a highly-popular inline glass vacuum lifter that can be operated with four cups (max SWL 300kg) or six cups (max SWL 450kg), depending on the size and weight of the load.
It has a cabled remote control with a two-button suction release for extra safety, and a short eye hook for glazing under soffits and overhangs, and for glazing overlights.
The Kappel DSKZL2 can also be adjusted to lift with four or six cups, again with a lifting capacity of 300kg or 450kg. Its short lifting arm assists in glass installation in confined spaced.
Advanced glass lifting solutions
Also on display will be two highly-effective mini cranes – the Wienold MFC750 mini floor crane, which can be used in two formats, and an all-electric Maeda spider crane.
In its fully-extended format, the MFC750 mini floor crane becomes the MFC750K, with a maximum safe working load (SWL) of 750kg, yet is just 1800mm long.
By removing its extension legs, an operator can quickly adapt the machine to become the MFC750Ks, or the Shorty, as it is known.
This is just 650mm wide and 1200mm long, so is ideal for lifting glass or any other materials in highly constrained spaces, but still has an impressive SWL of 500kg.
Hird Sales will also be showing off a next-generation all-electric Maeda spider crane, which can be combined with a wide range of glass vacuum lifters and other accessories.
In transport mode, the tracked mini cranes are extremely compact, so can be moved across complex environments, through narrow spaces and across sensitive or unstable indoor and outdoor surfaces.
Then, when in place, at the touch of a button, the variable outriggers can be deployed and levelled automatically in a variety of configurations depending on space available.
Visit the Hird Sales stand
The Hird Sales team would be delighted to explain the full capabilities of these machines at FIT Show 2025, so please visit us on Stand M70.
Contact us today to arrange a meeting during the event at a time that is best for you. Or start a conversation about out products, which also include Oil&Steel spider lifts and Locatelli industrial cranes.
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