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Material Handling Equipment
Equipment used to move or store any type of material; including forklift trucks, cranes, conveyors, winches, hoists or hoisting equipment.  

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Air Conveyors (149 companies)
Air conveyors are devices that use airflow to move items or media. Products include air tables, pneumatic tube conveyors, and vacuum conveyors.  
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Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGV) (88 companies)
Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGV) are designed to perform their operations without direct human guidance. They are used in a wide variety of industrial applications and can be laser, inertially or Cartesian-guided.
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Bin Activators and Discharge Aids (51 companies)
Bin activators and discharge aids are solids feeder valves with integral vibrators to promote material flow and prevent material bridging. They are used to promote the steady flow of granular or powdered materials from storage bins, hoppers, or silos.
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Boom Lifts (71 companies)
Boom lifts have an articulating arm or telescopic extension for lifting materials or personnel.
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Bulk Handling Conveyors (458 companies)
Bulk handling conveyors carry materials such as grain, coal, pellets or any other powder, granular or bulk media.
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Bulk Material Loaders and Unloaders (344 companies)
Bulk materials loaders and unloaders are used to fill and remove powders, granular substances and other bulk solids from bags, bins, boxes, carts, drums, hoppers, railcars, trucks, and silos. They often include solids feeders and break down clumps or arches to allow for the more uniform distribution of bulk materials.
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Dock Equipment (456 companies)
Dock equipment covers all items that assist in the loading and unloading of materials from trucks to buildings. Dock equipment categories include dock boards, dock bumpers, dock seals, dock levelers, dock lights, dock shelters, dock doors, dock restraints, dock guides, and dock chocks.
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Dock Lifts (104 companies)
Dock lifts are platforms used to raise and lower material, personnel and workpieces for loading and positioning.
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Dumpers, Tilters, and Inverters (320 companies)
Dumpers, tilters and inverters are used to reposition or empty material handling containers.
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Forklifts (595 companies)
Forklifts are used to engage, lift and transfer palletized loads. They can be divided into eight numbered classes and categorized by drive type. This product area also includes fork trucks.
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Industrial and Commercial Trailers (376 companies)
Industrial trailers and commercial trailers are pulled behind a powered vehicle to carry goods, livestock, or equipment. Learn more about Industrial and Commercial Trailers

Industrial Carts and Industrial Trucks (1220 companies)
Industrial carts and industrial trucks are used to transport equipment or materials. There are many different types of products.
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Industrial Conveyors (2197 companies)
Industrial conveyors are horizontal, inclined, declined, or vertical machinery that transports bulk materials or discrete units from one place to another at a controlled rate.
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Industrial Cranes (903 companies)
Industrial cranes raise, shift, and lower loads with a projected, swinging arm or a hoisting apparatus supported on an overhead track.
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Industrial Curtains (72 companies)
Industrial curtains separate a work environment with a hanging, flexible material. Products include curtain walls, laser curtains, mesh partitions, privacy screens, stage curtains, and welding curtains.
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Industrial Hoists (893 companies)
Industrial hoists are lifting and pulling devices that use a cable, rope, or chain to move or lift a load. Hoists are primarily used for vertical lifting, and usually have a feature for ceiling mounting such as a hook or trolley mount.
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Industrial Manipulators (186 companies)
Industrial manipulators are used to move and position materials, products, parts, and tools. Commonly used attachments include hooks, magnets, electromagnets, core grips, suction cups, pneumatic clamps and vacuum pads.
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Industrial Partitions (282 companies)
Industrial partitions are used to divide a larger area into smaller, separate workspaces. Products include curtain walls, laser curtains, stage curtains, welding curtains, room partitions, mesh or security partitions, moveable walls, office cubicles, portable partitions, privacy screens, restroom partitions, and demountable wall partitions.
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Industrial Vehicles (345 companies)
Industrial vehicles are driver controlled self propelled vehicles designed for a variety of applications. These include personnel transportation, load carrying as well as other specialty applications. Learn more about Industrial Vehicles

Industrial Vibrators (119 companies)
Industrial vibrators use rotary or linear motion to provide consistent vibration for laboratory and industrial shakers, screeners and classifiers, and bins and hoppers. They are powered by an electric motor, pneumatic pistons, or hydraulic fluid.
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Industrial Winches (321 companies)
Industrial winches are pulling devices that use a wire, rope, cable, strap or web to move heavy loads. They typically use a drum or reel for line storage and are either manually operated or powered by an electric, pneumatic, or hydraulic motor.
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Industrial Workbenches and Industrial Workstations (609 companies)
Industrial workbenches and industrial workstations are locations where personnel perform work.  Products range from economy workbenches to cleanroom and electronic assembly benches.
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Lift Tables (369 companies)
Lift tables are used to raise and position workpieces for ergonomic access.  They are used for material positioning, load positioning, or lifting.
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Lifting Jacks (389 companies)
Lifting jacks are used for leveling or positioning heavy equipment, or for supporting structures. They use screw or cylinder-based actuators and are powered by hydraulic, mechanical, electric, or manual methods.
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Material Handling and Pneumatic Conveying Blowers (66 companies)
Material handling and pneumatic conveying blowers move air through an enclosed system to transport materials. They generate tremendous air flow in a tube (often by a vacuum) to pull granular materials, papers, powders, or pellets from one location to another.
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Material Handling Automation (1232 companies)
Material handling automation services provide single source automated equipment and systems solutions for the material handling process.
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Order Picking Systems (23 companies)
Order Picking Systems are complete systems comprised of conveyors, data acquisition components and other material handling devices to identify, select and retrieve products for packaging or shipment.  They can be simple pick to light systems to more advanced pick to voice systems. This equipment can also be highly automated for high capacity warehouse applications. Learn more about Order Picking Systems

Parts Feeders (229 companies)
Parts feeders are machines that orient parts so that robots or other automated processes can capture and use or package the parts or components.
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Pick and Place Systems (167 companies)
Pick and place systems are manipulators that lift, move and place objects in a desired location. Learn more about Pick and Place Systems

Scissor Lifts (157 companies)
Scissor lifts are platforms that use a scissor-like mechanism to raise and lower the device. Typically, this type of material handling equipment moves only in the vertical plane.
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Solids Feeders (459 companies)
Solids feeders are used to deliver powder, granular and other bulk solid materials along a process line, or to and from process units, storage bins, conveyors and product packaging.
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Lifts (1527 companies)
Lifts are used to raise and lower material, personnel, vehicles, and workpieces for loading and working positioning.
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Line-shaft Spools (7 companies)
Line-shaft spools are mounted to the drive shaft of a line-shaft conveyor. A belt transmits power from the spool to drive individual conveyor rollers. Learn more about Line-shaft Spools

Loading Arms (37 companies)
Loading arms are used to load liquids into tanks, trucks, railcars, and other vehicles. They are commonly used in fueling and fluid transfer applications. Learn more about Loading Arms

Overhead Trolleys (57 companies)
Overhead trolleys are conveyors that consist of a continuous loop of chain or cable that is suspended from a track. Carriers are attached periodically to hang or contain products.
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Palletizers and Depalletizers (304 companies)
Palletizers place goods on pallets in an orderly fashion.
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Roller Dollies (153 companies)
Roller dollies are high capacity, low profile dollies used for moving, shifting, and positioning extremely heavy loads.
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Pallet Jacks (260 companies)
Pallet jacks are used to lift and transport pallets. Typically, they only lift a pallet high enough off the ground to allow the pallet to be transported. There are various drive and lift configurations options.  
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Stackers and Reclaimers (44 companies)
Stackers and reclaimers are used in stockyards to stack minerals, ore, and other granular raw materials in piles, and then redistribute them for processing and shipment. Learn more about Stackers and Reclaimers

Tilt Tables (103 companies)
Tilt tables are designed to tilt so that material can be completely removed from them.
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Truck Bodies (95 companies)
Truck bodies are assemblies that attach to a truck chassis for tasks such as towing, dumping, or product storage and delivery. Truck body suppliers do not manufacture the vehicle itself. Rather, they build a task-specific assembly that attaches to the chassis of the vehicle. Learn more about Truck Bodies

Tugs, Tow Tractors, and Pushers (58 companies)
Tugs, tow tractors and pushers are used to move rolling items. They are wheeled, self-propelled, and capable of moving heavy loads. Learn more about Tugs, Tow Tractors, and Pushers

Turntables (159 companies)
Turntables are horizontal, rotatable mechanisms for transferring objects between conveyors that are in angular relation to one another.
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Unit Handling Conveyors (322 companies)
Unit handling conveyors are designed to handle packages, pallets, or any other unit format. They are used to transport large, discrete items that can be handled independently.
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Vacuum Lifters (118 companies)
Vacuum lifters are types of lifting equipment that incorporate a vacuum as or as part of the lifting mechanism. They consist of a below-the-hook frame with a large vacuum pad or several smaller suction cups for grabbing large sheets, rolls, plates, or other smooth-surfaced products.
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Vacuum Manipulators (45 companies)
Vacuum manipulators include components for moving or positioning wafers or items in vacuum chambers or systems such as mounting devices, load locks, wobble sticks or wafer robots. Learn more about Vacuum Manipulators

Vehicle Lifts (49 companies)
Vehicle lifts are used to lift and support vehicles for service or storage. They may be hydraulic, electric, or manually-actuated.
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Vertical Conveyors (234 companies)
Vertical conveyors are used to lift or lower loads between various levels in intermittent flow operations and where horizontal space is limited.  There are two types of vertical conveyors, reciprocating and continuous.
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Vibratory Tables (26 companies)
Vibratory tables are table assemblies that are shaken by a vibrator and it is mainly used for fatigue testing, concrete casting, breaking apart, or compaction of media or packaging.  Vibratory tables are also known as vibrating tables or shakeout tables.
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