Applique Car Door Trolley

Scope 

We manufactured the car door stillage in accordance with our customer’s drawing to ensure it met their exact design specifications and functional requirements. This approach guarantees full compatibility with their production processes and ensures that the stillage supports the safe, efficient handling and transportation of the car doors as intended. By following their drawing precisely, we also maintained consistency with their broader system of logistics and storage equipment.

Solution

Project REF: AD-2499-2024-04-1 / 12716-P2

A door stillage is a specially engineered metal frame or pallet system designed to safely store, transport, and handle vehicle doors or other large, flat, and often delicate components such as body panels, windows, or trim assemblies. These stillages are a vital part of the automotive manufacturing and logistics process, ensuring that high-value components are protected, organised, and efficiently moved through each stage of production and delivery.

Constructed from heavy-duty steel or reinforced materials, door stillages are built to withstand the demanding conditions of industrial environments while minimising the risk of damage to the parts they carry. Each stillage is often custom-designed to fit a specific type of door or panel, incorporating padded surfaces, adjustable brackets, dividers, or protective inserts to prevent scratching, denting, or misalignment during transport.

A car door stillage plays a critical role in the automotive sector by providing a safe, efficient, and organised solution for storing and transporting car doors during manufacturing, assembly, and logistics processes:

• Protects components: Safely stores and transports car doors, preventing damage to painted surfaces and internal mechanisms.
• Improves efficiency: Streamlines handling during manufacturing, assembly, and logistics processes.
• Supports lean manufacturing: Facilitates quick loading/unloading, reducing downtime and improving workflow.
• Maximises space: Stackable and space-saving design helps optimise storage and transport capacity.
• Reduces costs: Efficient use of space and handling leads to lower transportation and storage costs.
• Ensures compatibility: Custom-designed stillages fit specific door types, improving safety and process reliability.

What other industries could a door stillage be used in?

• Aerospace Industry

  • Transporting and storing aircraft panels, doors, and other precision components.
  • Protecting delicate parts during assembly and logistics operations.

• Rail & Heavy Transport Manufacturing

  • Handling large fabricated parts like train doors, panels, or interior fittings.

• Construction & Building Materials

  • Storing and transporting glass panels, windows, doors, and architectural metalwork.

• Furniture Manufacturing

  • Moving and storing finished furniture components like doors, panels, or assembled pieces.

• White Goods & Appliance Manufacturing

  • Handling parts for washing machines, refrigerators, ovens, etc., during production and logistics.

• Agricultural Equipment Manufacturing

  • Transporting and organising body panels or machinery parts used in tractors or harvesters.

• Logistics & Warehousing

  • Reusable stillages for general material handling or bulk part storage and transport.

• Marine & Shipbuilding Industry

  • Managing large metal or composite parts such as cabin doors, panels, or structural sections.

Acres have a range of standard products but also support clients with custom machinery and medium-high volume products such as trolleys, stillages etc. 

We have manufactured lots of different tables / workstations / workbenches for various industries.

We also manufacture access platforms, jigs and fixtures and many other types of production support solutions / products. 

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