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PM Manipulator Solutions for Handling and Emptying Drums, Barrels, and Containers

In industrial production, handling, emptying, and packaging drums, barrels, and containers are challenging and hazardous processes due to their heavy weight and the chemical risks they may contain. PM Industrial Manipulators offer pneumatic solutions designed to make these operations ergonomic, safe, and efficient.

Safe Solutions for the Chemical, Oil, and Paint Industries

  • Lifting, transporting, and rotating drums, barrels, and containers weighing between 50 – 300 kg

  • Controlled emptying of flammable and hazardous liquids such as chemicals, oil, paint, thinner, and solvent

  • Safe usage in explosive atmospheres with ATEX-certified solutions

Ergonomic and Efficient Operation

  • Eliminates the operator’s physical strain

  • Pneumatic balancing system allows drums to be handled effortlessly, as if weightless

  • Enables 90°–180° tilting and precise emptying

  • Reduces manual handling and forklift use, minimizing workplace accidents

Advantages of PM Manipulators

  • Local manufacturing since 1989 with a wide service network

  • Handling capacities from 60 kg up to 1850 kg

  • Drumful model, specially designed for drum and container applications

  • Custom configurations compliant with ATEX requirements

  • More than 3,000 successful installations in Turkey and worldwide

Applications

  • Chemical and petrochemical plants

  • Oil and solvent production lines

  • Paint and thinner factories

  • Packaging and filling lines

  • Explosive atmospheres (ATEX Zone 1 and Zone 2)

Watch our manipulator in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5OerPpmyw&ab_channel=PMIndustrialManipulator