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one pound of push moves

a thousand pounds

 

Products offered on this UK website are made in various locations worldwide including South Africa, Japan, China, UK and the EU  the brand name AerGlide is produced in the USA.

 

The original Prototype Pallet transporter developed by Pat White in 1990 using components from car exhaust pipes and hand formed fittings.

 

 

 

Welcome to Airfloat UK

At Airfloat UK we specialize in moving heavy loads on a fine film of air providing air caster and air bearing equipped structures designed for material handling of all shapes and sizes. some of our products include innovatively engineered Air pallets or platforms, Air planks or the riggers choice of air skids. Heavy load moving Air Platforms with capacities up to 140,000 pounds, air motor powered steerable drive tractors, Airfloat UK offers economical rigging sets of Air Skids or Load Movers and Pneumatic Turntables. we also make custom designed equipment and custom load handling systems

Airfloat UK's history originated in Africa and its expertise grown from our 20 years as "Airfloat UK" which was closed in April 2009 to facilitate the relocation to the USA where as a new enterprise we are redefining our product line and our manufacturing facilities using our extensive international experience to ensure the best price tag for our customers in the international market.

Airfloat UK Product's are the result of many years of experience in the Air caster and Air bearing industry.  We have worked on client sites around the world and have an international experience not found in the industry today.  Many examples exist of Pat White's work in fluid film handling in Air bearings, Air casters, Water casters and Hoverpads.

See some history, events and pictures of our 20 year History and experience as Airfloat

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Airfloat UK's offering in Air Caster - Air Bearing products is based on 20 years of hard earned experience in the international markets. Our technology has been fine tuned to suit our customer's needs.  At  Airfloat UK we have our products manufactured in locations that suit local retail pricing best, in the South of England the Netherlands and at our main facility based in the USA - AerGlide where we manufacture a range of Air Casters and Air Bearings in both measurements of metric or imperial and provide a direct replacement that fits your existing systems no matter where you purchased them. Contact us today to see how we can help you.

Features Include:

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Carefully designed laser cut components that fit.

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We take great pride in our craftsmanship and presentation to deliver neatly assembled systems.

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Quick change stand alone diaphragm.

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No need to throw away the backing plate.

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Tray Mount is now integrated as standard.

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Quick supply and installation.

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Competitive pricing.

Lateral Thinking:

 

We enjoy partaking in innovation and are proud of our history of solving problems associated with moving heavy loads, from a 260 ton earth quake bridge to a crate of parts, Airfloat UK material handling products and rigging sets have the answers with our wide range of standard and custom manufactured products that include Air Caster and Air Bearing based,Air Skids, Air Pallets, Platforms and Transporters, Drive Tractors, Lift & Tilt Tables, Turntables, and complete turn-key operations.

Airfloat UK utilizes advanced load movement methods and air film technology and pneumatics in their standard and custom engineered Air Caster equipped products such as Turntables, Rigging Sets and Platforms. We design and engineer our products using ergonomic technology to optimize worker productivity while focusing on increased safety and ease of operation.

Pat White has a long history in the entertainment business where his products are used, from moving Bleachers (stadium and theater seating) to floating 6000 pound sets on stage to making a 260 ton Bridge mimic an earthquake. All it takes is a little imagination and lateral thinking, please read on and enjoy the tour, we hope you find what you are looking for, if not please fill out our questionnaire on the contact page and we will get back to you,  Thank You.

 

Pat White

 

 

Air Skid Rigging Kits

 

 

Our range of Airfloat UK Air Skid rigging kits will move you in ways you never thought possible.

There exists a naming confusion in the industry that makes it hard for the customer to find what they are looking for so we will define the terms used.

A simple design by the British Hovercraft Company, BHC which was founded by the Hovercraft inventor, Sir Christopher Cockerel became a phenomenon. Air Caster technology in the late 1950's and early 1960's when Boeing and GM explored the technology under a license from BHC. two different types of Air Caster were born, one was based on a torus bag that looks like a small inner tube or flat donut with a square plate of aluminum as a base plate and then there came the competitive Diaphragm type that emulated the original BHC Hoverpad.

 

 

 

 

 

 The original BHC Hoverpad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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