Automatic Wheelset Turntables for Rail industry

The automatic wheelset turntable enables the easy movement of wheelsets and bogies between different rails which feed the various machine tools like wheel presses and lathes.

Handling Specialty has developed a turntable for several rail/transportation clients and receive multiple return orders because of the quality and durability of the products we design, manufacture, install and support.


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Pratt & Whitney's preferred vendors attending the Environmental, Health & Safety Vendor Fair

Today our Sales manager, Michael Roper is in Middleton, Connecticut as one of Pratt & Whitney's preferred vendors attending the Environmental, Health & Safety Vendor Fair. This aerospace focused event allows Pratt & Whitney executives to stay current on what their vendors offer. The Handling Specialty booth displays several case studies (many of which were designed and manufactured for Pratt & Whitney specifically)to keep us Top of Mind.

With a project currently in the works for the company; a Pre-dress bay at their Mirabel, QC facility - a workstation lift which will lift engines from AGV’s to be prepared for testing, Pratt & Whitney and Handling Specialty enjoy an excellent professional partnership.

Aerospace Manufacturing Demands Excellence

Boeing, Bombardier, Lockheed-Martin, NASA, Pratt & Whitney, GE Aviation; these are some of the companies who trust us to design and build their manufacturing equipment for the aerospace sector. Is it time you considered an experienced design and manufacturing firm who understands your custom applications?

 

Handling Specialty custom engineers and manufactures lift, rotate, tilt and traversing equipment to help customers assemble and manufacture their products efficiently, ergonomically and with greater confidence and this experience extends to the multi-faceted industries that make up Aerospace and Defence manufacturing.



Handling Specialty has supplied a number of custom vertical assembly stations to Lockheed Martin for the wing assembly of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. We have also created several Jet engine testing and pre-dress bays where the engines being lifted weigh in excess of 30,000 lbs.



Find a wide array of solution stories to support our claim that we build big things so our customers can build big things.

The Canadian Rail Summit Success

Handling Specialty exhibited recently at the Canadian Rail Summit, 2016 and saw 400 attendees drop in for a chance to speak with our representative, Rick Breznik, and drop their cards for a chance to win one of our draw prizes.

 

“We came away from this show with some strong leads,” explains Breznik, the Transportation Product Manager at Handling Specialty. “We like to stay top of mind with our customers and meet potential customers by exhibiting at these shows.”

 

Handling Specialty is a Whiting company which is heavily embedded in the transportation and rail industries. Handling Specialty has produced multiple jobs for these industries as well and continues to sell, build, install and support from their Grimsby headquarters and well as their second plant in Hamilton, Ontario.

 

Top prize of four bottles of Niagara wine went to Mike Arnew, of KM&T while secondary prizes of a $25 LCBO gift card went to Kam Leong of Metrolinx and Jeanette Ainey of the TTC.

Canadian Rail Summit 2016 Exhibitor - Handling Specialty

The Canadian Rail Summit 2016 exhibitor hall will be open from 8:30am to 5pm on Thursday, May 12, and from 8:30am until noon Friday, May 13^th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Explore cutting-edge products and services from 60 tradeshow exhibitors where Handling Specialty will be located in booth 116.

 

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to see the latest in rail and transportation safety and emerging technologies. http://www.railwaysuppliers.ca/english/events/canadian-rail-summit-2016.htm

 

Handling Specialty is a Whiting company; renowned for their Shim Tables, Drop Tables, Split Rail Systems, Paint Booths, Overhead Gantries, Stencil Booths and Nose Cone Lifts to name a few products in the Rail industry.

 

For more on what Handling Specialty can do for you visit http://www.handling.com/industries/rail-transportation-manufacturing-equipment/

Watch AGV’s Navigate QR Coded Tape for an Assembly Plant.

Whether you call them an AGV or AGC's, automatic guided vehicles have transformed assembly plants, manufacturing facilities and warehousing. Here you can watch as they move along a QR coded tape laid along an assembly line floor where each QR gives a command to the AGV on speed and function.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/dQf83z2B2KU

Why incorporate an automatic guided vehicle into your facility?

Automatic and Manually Guided Vehicles offer industries the opportunity for rapid growth of their manufacturing and assembly lines and come in custom shapes and sizes to fit the application. With an experienced Engineering department and Technical sales professionals to help assess your needs, Handling Specialty is your one stop shop for AGV and MGV's.

Automatic and manually guided vehicles are used for multiple applications in manufacturing and assembly facilities to assist in the transportation of product through the line or from the manufacturing floor to the warehouse. Handling Specialty’s vehicles are custom engineered, programmed and manufactured to our clients tooling, safety and specific operational needs to enhance their facility’s efficiencies and support employee morale by creating an ergonomically friendly work environment.
Find out more on the Handling Specialty website.