June 4, 2017
Have you started a brand new company in which material handling equipment plays a key role? Perhaps you’ve expanded your current company’s capacity to handling materials and need to add to your material-handling equipment system? Maybe you have not upgraded your organization’s collection of material-handling equipment items for some time. Whatever your reason, it’s always…
June 1, 2017
When selecting the best caster to use for your business application, there are many considerations to process before making a decision. We could talk all day about everything you need to mull over, but the main considerations are as follows: Size of load – It’s a simple rule that the more weight your casters have…
May 28, 2017
You can give yourself a firm pat on the back if your distribution or production facility is working at peak capacity. You can stop reading now! However, very, very few companies are able to confidently claim that their production floor is working absolutely flawlessly with absolutely no room for improvement. No matter how well you…
May 15, 2017
Most manufacturing industries, including sectors which produce material-handling equipment, struggled through the recession, but for most sectors, their company’s performance has been improving year after year, and since 2010 in particular. Each year since the country began to recover from the financial crisis of 2008, revenues have typically grown at a steady pace. The main…
May 11, 2017
The task of rolling drums can be a dangerous process if undertaken manually. It is a process that’s much safer if handled automatically. So it’s of benefit to purchase an automated drum roller. Importance of Properly Mixing Drum Contents It’s necessary to roll drums in order to mix their contents. During transportation, it’s unlikely that…
December 1, 2015
Casters can satisfy many different needs in many different applications, depending on a variety of factors. That is why at Douglas Equipment,we have teamed up with over a dozen caster manufacturers so that we are more likely to find the right caster to suit our customer’s unique needs. There are several hundred thousands of different…
October 9, 2015
When looking for material handling equipment for your warehouse, you want to get the right tool to make the job efficient and effective, but you don You want a wide selection so that you can be sure that the right tool is available from your supplier. You want value so that the price you pay…
May 28, 2013
Places That Are On The Go When you first think of hotels and resorts, many words come to mind such as relaxing, traveling, resting, and exploring. Hotels and resorts are places that people go to get away from the every day experience, a place where people go to when they need a little breather, a…
May 1, 2013
If there is one aspect of the industry that keeps business running as usual it is wholesale distributors and wholesalers. Most everything that is found on the shelves and racks in major stores comes from those providing access to wholesale merchandise. The wholesale industry is an industry that is constantly on the go, moving items from intake into the facility, around the warehouses to different departments and then finally into boxes and trucks to be shipped to those stores who will be receiving the merchandise. If there is an on-the-move industry, it is the wholesale industry.
April 22, 2013
The service industry is an industry that affects almost every aspect of daily life in some way. Its definitions are broad and its reach is far. The service industry offers services to other industries as well as to individual consumers. And the service industry has many different sub-categories of industries and includes any industry whose main purpose is to offer services, including but not limited to: banking, communications, wholesale and retail trade, engineering, computer software development, medicine, nonprofit economic activity, and government services.
