Knapen Trailers - The Largest Manufacturer of Walking Floors In Europe

Knapen Trailers In Holland

Knapen in Holland manufacture 'standards' and 'specials' on different lines and at a different rate. They manufacture on steel chassis as the K100 variant and aluminium chassis as the K200 as standards. For very bespoke trailers it is more economic to fast change the aluminium chassis. Knapen recognise 4 product model bases:

NEXT; an advanced model of their 1984 design which forms the basis of the lighter and middle weight trailer.

HDX; a heavier specialised model that moves into more challenging tasks and environments

EXSIDE; the model that allows for side doors from 1 door to both sides fully opening

EXTREME; a steel body model with steel floors that allow for very challenging products such as cars or scrap metals

If you want to learn fast the Dutch home market will do it. The Dutch bulk trailers can run up to 55 tonnes gross weight. So what works there works easily in the UK 44 tonne market. We do not down specify the trailers for our market. This creates a product that looks the best and also fights easy. Our competition often have 40 tonne home markets and have to stretch their range to reach 44 tonne let alone the demands of 55 tonnes!! This is important when choosing a trailer that must run at full weights every load and every shift - from farm and forestry roads to landfill to motorways. Knapen have the engineering knowledge to make a product you can trust.

 

Knapen Trailers for Transport In The UK

Newton Trailers are the largest sellers of walking floor trailers since 1962. We take the Knapen  NEXT; the HDX; the EXSIDE; and the EXTREME trailers and meet the UK market requirements and wishes. We understand that you don't get up in the morning and immediately shout 'I must have an HDX'. You have a need to move 'Silage' or a need to move 'Wood Chip'. These needs or segments require a map to the correct trailer solution. You can do this on our Segment Page. If you wish to meet us then you can go into shock by clicking: Meet The Team

Alternatively we also view the market in Trailer Types: 

Agricultural Walking Floors: Specific solutions for On Field to On Road agricultural products such as grain chaser, or silage to AD Plant

Lightweight Walking Floors: Specific solutions when the product is forgiving; paper, cardboard and volume and payload is king

Biomass Walking Floors: Specifc solutions when the materials are more mixed and bulky but not too aggressive

Recycling Walking Floors: Specific solutions when the materials are more aggressive to the trailer body than biomass

Heavy Duty Waste Walking Floors: solutions for agressive environments such as forestry, landfill sites and where the loading system is aggressive to floors, walls, and toprails.

Obviously sales options can make a lightweight trailer blend into a biomass trailer or blur the distinctions between types. However after thousands of sales into the UK the common patterns of bulk materials create common efficient trailer types. Our goal is to provide our customers with these answers to their bulk requirements with trustworthy proven engineering that will not put you at risk. Our team here at Newton have hundreds of years of experience between us. We will give you our full attention to provide you with a solution you can trust.

Knapen Trailers Provide Bespoke Unique Walking Floor Trailer Solutions in the UK

Knapen welcome new customer requirements. They can design and collaborate to form the perfect solution for you. That said it is important to construct reliable, efficient and safe equipment. Knapen have the largest design and engineering team supported by Krone's division if required.

For Example:

The semi - liquid digestate from the AD Plant process needs removal and manufacture into fertilizer and or transport to field.  New Knapen walking floors transporting inbound biomass and outbound bagged digestate are just starting to enter the UK market following on the trend seen in Europe for efficient two way logistics. Knapen Walking Floors and Exeler Liquid X Liners carry 26 cu meter of bagged digestate with onboard pumps. They take approximately 8 minutes to charge or discharge. Arguably they are a game changer in AD Plant load handling.

This is one example of the massive variety of Knapen Walking Floor Trailer solutions that we can provide to the UK market. The UK market has moved over the last 30 years from a tipping trailer solution to a horizontal discharge trailer solution. We are rapidly moving to the situation where walking floor trailer sales will be greater than tipping trailer sales each year. This delivers greater safety and site efficiency. New input buildings only need to accommodate the height of the trailer 4.4 meters not the height of a tipping trailer 12 meters.  

Knapen Trailers - A Long History

By 1984 Knapen were developing a self-supporting chassis an moving floor body. The request was to supply compost into the glass houses of Holland. The advantage over standard tipping trailers that Pete Knapen had been making, was that the trailer could reverse under the green house roof and still tip. Since then the range of products moved has gone hand in hand with both Cargo Floor developments and with Keith Walking Floor innovation. New floor types from simple2 24 plank 6mm aluminium floor to stainless steel floors for glass to V9 steel floors for scrap metal and aggregate. The last 40 years have been exciting and Knapen design has led the way.

Trailers Options for Anaerobic Digestion Feedstock Transport In The UK

Anaerobic Plant Feedstock/DigestateTrailer Option: Two transport is the Holy Grail of any logistics operation. Knapen Trailers work with Exeler of Germany to produce a trailer that will take your outbound biomass and return with 26 tonnes of digestate. Newton work closely with Exeler to produce high quality products using industry standard components for reliability.

 

 

 

 

 

Knapen Trailers NEXT 

 

A long time ago in a pub far far far away I accused the Knapen Managing Director of having a worse looking trailer than his competition. Other than leaving me with lots of pointing finger bruises in my chest it also led to the NEXT program of trailers. Without doubt the Knapen is the best looking moving floor trailer. The rear end is super sexy with the Knapen LED light bar. The rear under run bar puts the others to shame with its glamour. For the more cognescenti that side profile extrusion - oh yes, yes, yes: both functional and elegant. Side impact infills both practical and flirtatious. It takes real engineering skill and obsession to create a practical bulk road going trailer with design flair. This is not limited to the NEXT models. The complete trailer range has a thoughtfulness and good looks that leave a positive impression on all who work with the trailer.   So strength tick up to 55 tonnes, practicality - tick, looks - tick, support - tick.

Knapen Trailers Clothing

 

If you really enjoy your work and love our trailers then you could indulge yourself or perhaps that special person in your life with a Knapen Trailer Polo T Shirt - Merch for that Bulky Fellow in your life. Follow the link: CLICK HERE

Knapen Trailers Dutch Cheese Recipe

 

Although the UK clearly makes the best Cheese in the World we thought if you were excited by buying a Knapen Trailer you might like to try a Gouda Cheese Recipe? Did you also know that Holland is the second biggest cheese producer in the World? Weird huh. Anyway Click Here