Situated on the outskirts of Pordenone, Prosdocimo Funeral Home was the first funeral parlour created in the Triveneto. Founded in 2012 from an intuition of Alessandro Prosdocimo, it was the natural progression of the family funeral business dating back to 1938.
Prosdocimo Funeral Home was created to meet the need to accompany people’s loved ones on their last journey with dignity in a comfortable environment and with respect for the different faiths and traditions observed in the territory. Prompted by many requests, in 2017 the owners decided to extend the funeral home with the aim of being able to use larger spaces and offer a wider range of services to their clients.
In particular, the extension project provided for the revamping of the laboratory for processing and preparation of the bodies. This entailed moving the caskets during the working process. Alessandro Prosdocimo called on Handel Sollevamenti to study the most appropriate lifting solution for the operational requirements of such a specific environment.
Handel Sollevamenti, a company specialising in the design, supply and construction of lifting equipment and a long-standing partner of Verlinde, proposed to produce a lifting system with a capacity of 200 kg, with sliding crane runways of around 4 metres, hoist displacement of 3 metres, with entirely manual movement to avoid any noise during the relevant operations.
Alberto Alcido, Quality Manager of Handel Sollevamenti, explained: “The client’s primary requirement was to obtain minimum height, ease of movement and lastly, but no less important for purposes of hygiene, the fact that the lifting system could be easily washable, since it operates in a quasi-medical environment”.
To meet those requirements Handel Sollevamenti’s design specified a lifting system with an aluminium suspended track produced by Verlinde, called Eurosystem Alu, equipped with a double speed chain hoist from the same manufacturer. Alcido confirmed: “This new choice fully reflected the client’s advanced requirements and guaranteed them the level of quality and reliability we are certain of obtaining from Verlinde products”.
The Eurosystem Alu aluminium profile system was installed by anchoring it to the ceiling by means of 4 HEA100 beams painted in Ral 7011. The heights of the different elements of the structure were selected carefully, taking account of the dimensions of all the electrical conduits and the ventilation equipment, which were installed afterwards, in order to provide a system with low visual impact, but which would be very solid and extremely efficient.
The use of Eurosystem Alu aluminium profiles offered major advantages in terms of ergonomics, precision, corrosion resistance, cost saving, duration, safety and low noise. The lightness of the wheels enables the operators to move even heavy and cumbersome loads with great ease and without excessive force, with the precision guaranteed by the high manufacturing quality and the smooth rolling quality of the material. The aluminium of the profiles is anodyzed externally and internally to ensure excellent anti-corrosion characteristics, while thanks to the streamlining and simplification of the weight-bearing structures the lifting system is very easy to assemble, thereby helping to reduce the overall cost of the installation. Furthermore, the anodizing of the material and the type of rollers provide it with great resistance to wear and tear, considerably prolonging its lifespan. Lastly, since the profile is devoid of welding it is also very safe, while the significant planarity of the sliding surface ensures extremely silent operation.
Alcido concluded, “The guiding principle of our company has always been to produce products of excellent quality, with attention to every detail and customised to our clients’ individual requirements. Every operation relies on the professional capacity and the experience acquired by all the staff, as well as the ability to choose components of proven quality and reliability, like those of Verlinde which we avail ourselves of regularly”.
