Handling Specialty Blog - lift equipment

Not all AGV's – otherwise known as AGC's - are created equal. Handling Specialty's customized automatic guided vehicle was designed, built and tested at their facilities for a truck-body builder who required specific application details and safety options which Handling Specialty delivered.

Ladle lifts replaced the traditional scaffolding used in the re-bricking process at many steel factories as a safer and more reliable option.

This personnel lift, for instance, with an 8 foot, fully-automated rise and lower function, outfitted with 5 sliders and mechanical emergency foot brakes offers the perfect solution to working with large engines or turbines placed on rotating head stock / tail stock equipment.

The Benefits of a Below-Ground Level Scissor Lift  - Safety is always an important consideration when designing a product to help others do their jobs more efficiently.

Engineering is obviously an important step in realizing your custom equipment, but don’t over-look manufacturing. Has the company built the products they’ve engineered? This is where trial and error takes place. This is where real world experience comes into play.

The phrase materials handling is a broad term with many meanings and involving many industries. Each industry has its own challenges when manufacturing, shipping, or storing product. Whether they are the manufacturer’s themselves, or are shipping and/or storing products for other manufacturer’s, their requirements for equipment to assist in building, storing or moving those items vary widely depending on the size, weight and nature of the product.

In an effort to support the industry organization MHI, and encourage others to join the Manufacturing and Supply chain industry as a career choice, Handling Specialty's own Sales Manager, Mike Roper, has stepped up to tell us a little something about his experiences in the Manufacturing/Supply Chain industry.

The Forklevator comes with an industry leading five year structural warranty.

A safer and more efficient working environment has always been the cornerstone to Handling Specialty’s design engineering whether with a standard offering like the Forklevator, or any number of custom builds which make up the majority of Handling Specialty’s diverse and massive breadth of experience.

Some of the major benefits to employing a Head stock/Tail stock Positioner is that it offers a properly positioned weldment, regardless of the size, which reduces welder fatigue, increases safety, improves weld quality, and saves on production floor space.

Expanded Services Section on Handling Specialty's Website. In order to keep your equipment running and your operation moving, parts and services are an integral part of the process. From critical spare parts to the planned maintenance services recommended by your manufacturer, it is important to be able to find what you need when unforeseen damages or problems arise with your machinery.

Do you know who it is you've hired to offer you expert consultation advice? Are they experts? Do they have a diverse portfolio of work to support their claims?

One of the great milestones in our history was the period in time that we launched our Forklevator product line; lifts used to service the underside of Fork Lift Trucks...

Handling Specialty Wins Grimsby Business of the Year Award, 2015 GRIMSBY, ONT. CANADA — For Immediate Release, Dec. 1, 2015 - Handling Specialty Manufacturing Ltd.

On December 4th, many millions watched The Amazing Race contestants enter the largest water extravaganza stage show in the world today.

MGV or Manually Guided Vehicle was engineered and manufactured by Handling Specialty for the locomotive industry to assist in moving and lifting components for assembly on a raised passenger car.

Handling Specialty and High Point Equipment Bring the OSA-LATOR precision indexing Table to a Wider Market The strategic alliance between the makers of the OSA-LATOR and Handling Specialty is the perfect...

Handling Specialty's expertise in underwater lifts and other Custom material handling solutions was featured in a recent story in the Toronto Star by reporter Dana Flavelle.

It's the summer season and you may be feeling the need to travel.

So it looks as though my persistent and highly motivated Marketing Manager has won our battle and convinced me that writing a BLOG is a good thing.

  Handling Specialty Manufacturing Ltd. was honoured this week to attend the Ontario Export Awards Gala in Toronto and receive our award as finalist in the Transportation Equipment category.