Lifting & Material Handling Equipment

We can supply all aspects of lifting equipment to suit almost any lifting application.
Lifting equipment is also commonly referred to as lifting gear, lifting tackle, hoisting equipment, material handling equipment and manual handling equipment, among many other terms and phrases and generally covers a massive range.
Below are the main categories of lifting equipment that we offer:

Chain Hoists; Manual, Electric, Pneumatic

Chain hoists are probably the most common piece of machinery used to lift and lower equipment. They are designed to lift a load vertically using a hook connected to a chain which is then driven either manually, electrically, pneumatically or hydraulically. A chain hoist can be a permanent fixture for when a lift is commonly required within the same vicinity or temporary fixing for when a lift is required in several different locations infrequently. All chain lifting hoists offered by us are suitable to be fitted to a trolley, which can be either manually moved or have powered travel, by such means as electric, air or hydraulics.

Wire Rope Lifting / Pulling Winches & Hoists

Available here are a wide choice of hoists which can either lift or pull a load by means of a wire rope. There are two main differences with wire rope devices, some are designed to lift and pull (hoists) and some are designed just to pull (winches). The main factor that decides if a wire rope machine can be used to lift, pull or both is the factor of safety that it required and the unit is built to; to lift a load there is a FOS (factor of safety) requirement of 5:1, whereas to pull a load the requirement on only 3:1 FOS. Options are available for manual, electric, pneumatic or hydraulic cable pulling and lifting devices. All of which have their own unique features and specifications which can make one more suitable than another. If you feel you need assistance at any point in deciding the right piece of equipment for you, please get in contact and we will do our best to ensure your problem is solved.

Rigging Gear; Riggers Equipment

We offer general lifting tackle used under the hook commonly referred to as "rigging and slinging equipment", used by the rigger to make safe the lifting process. Many users refer to the items contained within this category as lifting accessories or loose lifting gear. We sell quality rigging accessories from reputable manufacturers like Crosby, Hackett’s, McKissick etc....

Cranes; Mobile, Portable and Fixed

We offer a selection of cranes, a great choice of standard and special manufactured options on most product lines. There are portable, modular cranes that are movable with/without load or installed cranes like overhead cranes (manual and fully powered). We offer solutions with Atex (anti-sparking features) and lightweight aluminium cranes though generally can modify to suit our customers requirements. We offer one off the greatest online selections of floor cranes in the world, our portable workshop cranes and many unique features and are mostly individually made to our customers' specification.

Material Handling, Jacking & Fork Lift Truck Equipment

Manual handling equipment is designed to reduce the manual handling effort and associated risk to the user to a minimum and you will find the range offered by us is vast. There are many subcategories of manual handling equipment available; they can be manually operated, electrically controlled, pneumatic or hydraulic powered. If you have a manual handling issue and need a solution we advise that email our technical team, who will do their best to offer the most appropriate solution. We offer a great range of lifting jacks as normally used to lift, lower and/or hold equipment, in numerous design styles to suit our customers jacking needs. Our jacks are manual or electrically operated and can be supplied with hydraulic or mechanical lifting.

Specialist Lifting Equipment

For most of the products in this category that we refer to as specialist application lifting equipment we probably also offer a similar or identical item in another category except is will be made from a different material or made to a different specification from normal industrial working environments. For example the Atex category contains many items that have generally been modified to work safety in potentially explosive areas, items like chain hoists and rather lever hoists which are also offered without the anti-sparking (spark proof) modifications.

Access and Safety Related Equipment

We sell Portable access equipment as used for many different types of work, for maintenance, access & egress and for production processes. Our working platforms are manually or electrically manoeuvred and lifted; our scaffold towers and ladders come in many different sizes and are easily and quickly assembled. Our safety products include load weighing tackle (load cells, load links, load shackles or crane weighers) which are designed as a connection between the lifting hook and the load. The load cell indicates the weight of the load as it is applied to the hoist and it helps to prevent overloading a crane. Load arrestors are a safety product to catch a falling load. They are a fall arrest block for materials applications.

Other Lifting Equipment

In this category, we offers many items that don’t really fall into any other category though collectively they are just as important a group of products.