September 17, 2017
Material handling equipment is becoming ever more sophisticated as technology within the industry constantly improves. Automation and computerization has taken humble manually-operated machinery to entirely new levels. Today, if you have enough cash on hand, you could deck out your warehouse entirely with state of the art machinery that almost entirely negates the need for…
September 15, 2017
Here at Douglas Equipment we have extremely high standards. We always strive to offer our customers the very best, so we therefore only source from the best manufacturers, both in the USA and overseas. In short, if you order an item from our company, you can rest easy knowing that you’ll be getting the very…
September 10, 2017
When it comes to purchasing light quality casters, you have a few options. You can purchase them from a retail establishment that may sell all types of things with little specialization, or you can purchase from a reliable distributor like Douglas Equipment who has been in the material handling industry for decades. There are a…
September 5, 2017
One of the most essential pieces of equipment at most industrial work sites is a high-quality hand truck. These hand trucks are able to move heavy loads relatively easily by leveraging the item’s weight and pairing that leverage with a strong and reliable set of wheels or casters. There are, however, several different options for…
September 2, 2017
You may feel like there is nothing surprising about material handling equipment. After all, the function is right there on the label – it’s equipment that handles material! However, ‘material handling equipment’ is as broad a label as ‘sports’, and of course in the realm of sports, baseball is a very different pastime to ice…
August 24, 2017
There are many things that set men apart from animals, and one of those aspects is our ability to use tools. You very rarely see a squirrel using a hand truck to carry its acorns around, after all! The point is – tools make things easier, and if something is easier to do, then it…
August 23, 2017
If you move furniture on a regular basis as a hobby, then you might need to re-think your options. However, if you do it as part of your business then that’s much more understandable, simply because it’s such a tough task that it makes no sense to do it for anything other than profit! There…
August 20, 2017
Some products are just such good design ideas that they become classics. Take the vinyl record, for example. As a means of recording music, it’s never been bettered. The audio cassette took over for a while, but who has cassettes these days? The CD was a revolution, but again, who has CDs these days? There’s…
August 18, 2017
When it comes to our climate, the USA is a pretty diverse place. You have the scorching warmth of Florida and California, the deadly dry heat of Texas, up to the bone-chilling cold of Wisconsin, New England and even Alaska. When it comes to a diverse climate, any caster manufacturer needs to understand that making…
August 12, 2017
Material handling equipment has not changed much through the centuries, at least until perhaps the last twenty years or so. If you wanted to design something that moved material from place to place, then any kind of platform on wheels would more than suffice. The bigger the load, the bigger the equipment – it really…
