Vacuum Lifter Optimizes Door Handling at Agoprofil

The Challenge

For a long time, Agoprofil's door production was characterized by heavy physical labor and complex manual handling. Each wooden door, weighing up to 80 kilograms and three meters long, had to be moved by two to three employees working together. Due to the physical strain and the unergonomic grips, a maximum of 120 doors were possible per shift. In total, the teams moved up to 10 tons a day - entirely by hand. The doors were unwieldy and, because of their porous surface, very difficult to grip securely. Since each door had different dimensions, employees constantly had to reposition themselves and adjust their hand placements. Interruptions in workflow were part of the daily routine. For Managing Director Marco Agosto and his team, it was clear that things could not go on like this. The process slowed down production, required significant physical effort, and led to noticeable strain on employees. With only 12 to 15 safe handling cycles per hour, the team was consistently operating at the limits of endurance. And despite everyone giving their best, the process remained cumbersome, exhausting, and far from a modern, ergonomic working environment. Agoprofil urgently needed a solution that would address all of these challenges at once: a flexible system for safely handling doors of varying widths, a significant ergonomic relief for employees, increased productivity and reliable consistent quality for every single workpiece.