Handling Specialty Blog - lift equipment
Want to know what it's really like to work at a custom, engineered-to-order material handling equipment company? To work with clients as interesting and unique as Cirque du Soleil or Lockheed Martin, and in industries as varied as aerospace, defence, rail, nuclear energy or automotive? Watch this blog space regularly as we share our experiences, expertise and thoughts about what life is like at Handling Specialty.
Learn what it means when we say: "We build big things to help our customers build big things."

What is an Aerospace Wind Baffle or TCS
What’s more, how do you get a thirty-two-foot diameter spherical wind baffle from point A to B, and then raise and lower the unit so it can link up to...

Entertainment and Turn Tables
Turn Tables Take on a Life of their Own in the Entertainment Industry Handling Specialty has multiple examples of turn tables designed to enhance a stage show, or promote a product....

Aero-Engine Work Cells - Why Handling Specialty?
Handling Specialty has developed a solid reputation for delivering safe, intelligent and robust material handling equipment to the Aerospace Industry utilized in the assembly, testing and MRO of aero engines....

Automotive Blank Feed Carts
Why does my facility need blank feed carts? If you have an automotive manufacturing facility, you’ve likely heard of blank feed carts.

Smart Arm Manipulator
Handling Specialty’s S. A. M is a laser and camera-assisted motion control solution utilizing a custom heavy-duty multi-axis manipulator arm. S. A.

Four-Post Lift in Assembly
Looking for a mechanical lifting device which will assist in your end of assembly line duties? These four-post lifts were developed for that purpose for our client to inspect small...

Personnel Lift Applications
Handling Specialty has built Manlifts and Personnel lifts for multiple industries including Aerospace.

Vertical Drop Lifter
My Automotive Operations Require an Accurate Elevation Change Between Conveyance Lines which will Talk to my Mainframe.

Manual to Automated Line
A question we hear a lot from our customers is: How do I move from a manual assembly line to one which is more automated? And then: How do I...

Autonomous vehicles material handling
The autonomous guided vehicle is feature rich and designed for those focused on continuous improvement. Material handling industries find countless uses for automated guided vehicles.
Wind Tunnel Turn Table Engineering
HSML received a purchase order for one (1) ROT-10 Turntable and one (1) ROT-20 Turntable, A major wind tunnel engineering firm required two turn tables for a wind tunnel they will...
four-stage hydraulic lift
With a lifting capacity of 12,000 lbs and a fully raised height of 49 feet, this four-stage hydraulic scissor lift was cutom designed for a very specific application at a...

Drop Tables in Rail and Transportation Applications
Drop tables for the transit industry refer to equipment designed and built for maintenance operations to assist the technicians with easy removal of wheel sets, traction motors/combos, and full trucks/bogies...

Bellmouth Inlet Transfer System
The aerospace industry and Handling Specialty have been working together for many years.

Lift Truck Portavator
Designed and built to initially service the automotive manufacturing industry’s application needs in moving stamping line dies from one end of their facility to the other, the Portavator can be...

Manufacturing Day event
In support of the Manufacturing Day event at Mohawk College on October 24, Handling Specialty took part in a film produced to encourage and excite students about the different career...

Nuclear Facilities Material Handling Equipment Provider
Handling Specialty works with clients in the nuclear industry to engineer and manufacture massive four post lifts, unique portable tilt and rotate platforms, gimble service lifts, bridges, retubing platforms, and...

Manufacturing Day, 2016
Manufacturing Day is October 7th. Manufacturing week is the 1st to the 7th.

Autonomous vehicles began in the Material Handling Industry
AGV’s, or Automatic Guided Vehicles, have been providing solutions in the materials handling business for many years.