With air traffic growing at an average rate of 8% per year, and in some areas even up to 20%, the amount of air cargo flown around also increases tremendously. As a result, companies involved with air cargo face growing challenges on how to organise this and how to get cargo from and to their customers safely and on time. For this, our company SACO backed by more than 40 years of experience, offers ULD handling solutions ranging from basic air cargo handling systems for manual manoeuvring to fully motor powered and automated systems.

From our base in Mierlo, The Netherlands, we design, manufacture and supply turnkey Cargo Handling Equipment and Systems based on standard manual and powered conveyor decks, truck docks, dolly docks, workstations, scissor lifts, weighing stations, storage systems incorporating (elevating) transfer vehicles ((E)TV's) and the required control and management IT-systems. With our Slave Pallet system additional flexibility is given to the handling operation. Due to the modular design of our units, it is easy to move, modify, extend and upgrade an existing system in phases when cargo volumes grow. Users can adjust their investments to their needs.

SACO's turn key approach also enables the supply of cost effective integrated hardware / software solutions for the control and management of air cargo handling and storage systems. Full after sales support, tailor made maintenance solutions and 24-hour service, ensure a high performance standard throughout your system's entire life span.

SACO Airport Equipment is fully owned by and incorporated into the Smulders Group, an industrial engineering and manufacturing group based in The Netherlands. The group has in total some 1600 employees active in 27 companies based in The Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Poland, Portugal, Qatar and Abu Dhabi. With the combined facilities of the group, a unique flexibility is available to service our customers with any size of project, be it stand-alone single equipment or large scale integrated projects.