Columbus McKinnon designs, manufactures, and markets motion solutions for moving, lifting, positioning, and securing materials globally. It offers manual and electric chain hoists, electric wire rope hoists, hand-operated hoists, winches, lever tools, and air-powered hoists
Explosion-protected and custom engineered hoists. Its portfolio also includes high-precision conveying systems solutions which includes low profile, flexible chain, large scale, sanitary, and vertical elevation conveyor systems
Pallet system conveyors and accumulation systems, and power control and delivery systems and solutions AC and DC digital motion control systems for underground coal mining equipment.
Its portfolio also includes alloy and carbon steel chain, load chain, hooks, shackles, Hammerloks, and master links, and carbon steel forged and stamped products, such as load binders, logging tools, and securing devices.
Additionally, it designs and manufactures industrial components comprising mechanical and electromechanical actuators and rotary unions; and manufactures and markets aluminum light rail workstations Crane components and crane kits. It also designs, builds, sells, and supports elevator application-specific drive products.
The company serves EV production and aerospace, energy and utilities, process industries, industrial automation, construction and infrastructure, food and beverage, entertainment, life sciences, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, supply chain, and warehousing markets.
The company offers its products to end users directly. Its portfolio also includes industrial distributors, including rigging shops and independent crane builders, material handling specialists and integrators, and entertainment equipment distributors, service-after-sale distributors, OEMs, government agencies, and engineering procurement and construction firms. Founded in 1875, Columbus McKinnon is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.