Lighting features

The forklift truck provider has recently introduced Vertilight and LED Stripes, which can be retrofitted onto its trucks and are also available on new vehicles.
 
Linde Vertilight is a new lighting feature which provides safety while storing and retrieving goods, for high-bay shelves.
 
It consists of LED lights arranged in a semi-circle, mounted onto the truck’s mast. Unlike regular work lights, these lights do not produce a spotlight cone when working at shelves; instead they produce a wide-area, uniform and glare-free light which provides maximum illumination of the area.
 
At 6,500 Kelvin, the colour temperature of the VertiLight is similar to that of normal daylight, which aims to reduce tiredness felt by truck drivers. This helps to minimise the risk of warehouse accidents often induced by operator fatigue.

The vertical lighting angle can be individually adjusted to the specific requirements of the operating truck, which helps to make operations more efficient.

Linde has also introduced LED Stripes. These are light strips attached to the front and rear overhead guard on counterbalanced trucks that illuminate areas from close range, including particularly dark, inaccessible areas.

Movements of the fork carriage do not impair visibility as the strips radiate white light in the direction of travel, while the other side changes to red. This is an important indication for pedestrians as well as other forklift drivers and enables them to see, from a distance, the direction in which the truck is moving.

Additionally, there is no danger of the driver being temporarily blinded at any point as the high-intensity LEDs emit a natural light (5,700 Kelvin).