Pallet Inverters & Inverter Pushers
Transfer, recover and swap pallets in seconds
Pallet Inverters and Inverter Pushers allow for the quick and safe transfer of goods from one pallet to another, or for the removal of damaged pallets at the bottom of a stack. They are highly effective for maintaining hygiene standards by swapping wooden pallets for plastic ones in sensitive environments.
A pallet inverter clamps a loaded pallet, turns it over and lets the pallet be swapped without the product being restacked by hand. An inverter pusher does the same job and then pushes the load off, which suits operations running pallet-free at one end of the flow.
Two things drive the purchase. The first is damaged pallets: a broken pallet at the bottom of a stack is recovered in seconds instead of being unloaded case by case. The second is hygiene — food, pharmaceutical and cold-store operations that must not take a wooden pallet past a certain line can exchange it for plastic at the door.
Also known as: Pallet inverter · Inverter pusher · Pallet exchanger
Benefits
- Facilitates easy pallet recovery and replacement without manual restacking
- High-torque motor and pressure-stabilising cylinders ensure stable inversion
- Reduces labour costs and minimises the risk of product damage
- Improves warehouse hygiene by allowing easy pallet cleaning and exchange
Where it is used
- Food, beverage and pharmaceutical plants exchanging wood for plastic pallets
- Cold stores where pallets must be cleaned or replaced on entry
- Any warehouse recovering damaged pallets from under a live load
- Chemical and fertiliser handling where pallets are not returned
Specification
- Function
- Invert / exchange
- Drive
- High-torque motor
- Cylinders
- Pressure-stabilising
Capacities, jaw ranges and rotation are model-specific — the exact figures are confirmed against your truck and load when we quote.
Fits ISO Class II, III and IV fork carriages
In service on Toyota, Linde, Hyster, Jungheinrich, TCM, Manitou, JCB, Feeler, Yale and Komatsu trucks across the region.
- Hydraulic attachments run off the truck’s auxiliary services; where a truck has too few, an additional service or a solenoid selector can be fitted.
- Mechanical attachments slip over standard fork arms and need no hydraulic connection at all.
- Fitting an attachment changes the truck’s rated capacity, so the derated capacity plate is confirmed as part of the quote.
South Africa & Zambia
Attachments are supplied from Nelspruit for South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini and Lesotho, and through the Kitwe branch for Zambia, the Copperbelt and the southern DRC corridor.
- South Africa — head office, warehouse and service in Nelspruit, with stockholding in Johannesburg
- Zambia — branch office and warehouse in Kitwe, plus a supply depot in Solwezi
- Cross-border freight and documentation arranged per consignment where the destination requires it