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."

Circular Stages for Theaters
Described as a unique theatre-in-the-round, the Circle Theatre at the Pacific Repertory Theater in Carmel, CA makes an ideal setting for experimental plays, original material, and other works enhanced by...

Why Skillet Lifts for Final Assembly
First, you’ll need to know what a skillet lift is.

Innovation in Material Handling
Innovation is at the core of everything Handling Specialty designs. Why? Because virtually every order we receive is to solve a specific application required by our customer.

Advantages of the Service Deployment System
Whether during the initial planning of an assembly facility or you’re intending to upgrade, reorient or add to your current manufacturing plant, designing to best outfit your operation is an...

Tandem Heavy-Duty MGVs
What’s better than one heavy-duty MGV? Joining it with another to create a tandem material handling Goliath.

Solutions for Aerospace Engine Manufacturing
When designing or redesigning your aerospace assembly facility for its material handling processes there are multiple products to consider.

Robust Personnel Lift
When your assembly process requires up/down motion to position your technicians with 360-degree access to the product, Handling Specialty should be your first call.

Four-Post Rotators
Four-Post Rotators will Excite your Material Handling Needs Whichever industry you’re in; if your application requires assembly of large, heavy-capacity engines or other large-scale equipment, a rotating lift is your best...

Manufacturing Cirque du Soleil's 'O' Show Stage- Handling Specialty
Manufacturing Cirque du Soleil's 'O' Show StageManufacturing in the entertainment industry is often overlooked or perhaps, overshadowed by the event itself.

Transportation Industry Handling Equipment
Transportation Industry Handling Equipment Keeps Customers Coming back Heavy rail and transportation material handling equipment has been a large part of Handling Specialty’s portfolio for years.

Personnel Platforms for Automotive Inspection
Personnel Platforms for Automotive Inspection Personnel lifts come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.

AGV’s and Aerospace Assembly
AGVs are a perfect fit for aerospace assembly lines and material handling where your facility requires 24/7 operation, lift or rotation, high-duty cycles or heavy payload transport.

Advanced Manufacturing and AGVs
AGV’s for Manufacturing and Assembly Advanced manufacturing has a broad connotation and can apply to multiple industries.

Manually Guided Transporters
Manually Guided Transporters in the Energy Industry. An MGV can be as big or as small as the application demands. At Handling Specialty, we don’t really build small.

The Complete Rail Maintenance Equipment Package
It’s one thing to provide the best material handling equipment in the business, but when you can provide a total equipment package for your customer’s application needs, you’ve entered a...

Automotive Lift Systems
This hot-dip galvanized automotive lift system will be used in a water spray booth for testing leaks in vehicles at a major vehicle manufacturer in Toledo, OH.
Material Handling Accounting
Meet Debbie Guild, with Handling Specialty since 1979! On May 20, 1979, I received a phone call for an interview. I agreed to meet the gentleman who called.

AGVs Simplify Assembly
Move your product effortlessly with Automated or Manually Guided Vehicles. Design your facility’s path, lay the magnetic stripe on the assembly floor and place your AGV’s.

Russell Johnston to Receive Prestigious Award
The Council of the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists have awarded Russell Johnston, of Handling Specialty, the George Burwash Langford Memorial award in recognition of outstanding technical...