13.01.2016

New scissors from Snorkel

Snorkel has expanded its recently launched small slab scissor lift range with two new models, the 15 and 20ft S3215E and S3220E.

The new models -shown as a prototype at Platformers Days in September - join the current family of four lifts unveiled at last year’s Rental show - the S3219E, S3226E, S4726E and S4732E, with 19, 26 and 32ft platform heights respectively.

The new S3215E offers a 6.5 metre working height with a platform capacity of 272kg, the S3220E has an 8.1 metre working height and 408kg capacity. The company says that it expects these models to be particularly popular in Europe, where there is a focus on higher lifting capacities.

The two new machines share a 32 inch/810 mm wide chassis, with the existing S3219E and S3226E. The lifts feature Snorkel’s new twin-door service trays for easy access to key components, even in where working space is limited. The new lifts also share the same components, upper control box, standard saloon-style entry gates, dual-shear scissor stack design, deck extension, oversized kingpins, and gravity-actuated pothole protection system.

The new models have now gone into production at Snorkel’s US manufacturing facility in Elwood, Kansas. The first order - for 10 S3220E and five S3219E - has already been placed by Germany’s Buchtmann Arbeitsbühnen.
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(L-R) Don Ahern of Snorkel, Willi Buchtmann and Bernhard Kahn of Ahern Deutschland