May 25, 2017
You may be of the opinion that buying casters is relatively straightforward. It’s just like buying items off the shelf, right? Well, it’s kind of like that if you’re just making a one time purchase, but for businesses that use a great deal of casters on an on-going basis, one-time purchasing is not really an…
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 5, 2017
Like any business, here at Douglas Equipment we’re only successful if our customers are successful. If we sell poor quality casters and material handling equipment, then our success in business is guaranteed – i.e. there will be none of it! So, we strive to provide the highest level of service for our customers at all…
February 28, 2017
As all business owners understand, there is nothing more important than finances. To put it simply, if you don’t have it, then you can’t spend it! Every business operated by sound financial practices, and every penny saved is typically worth twice its value as all costs that are saved can be invested back into the…
January 28, 2016
Hospital conditions offer additional challenges for casters located on all types of equipment including carts, trolleys or hospital beds because these pieces of equipment need levels of cleanliness not often required of a caster. Not only do the casters themselves need to provide sanitary conditions so that they do not make the environment dirty, they…
January 21, 2016
Casters are not always the first thing on everyone’s mind, but they can be the most important part of a chair or cart. Without casters you will not be able to move an item easily around, and with the wrong casters you can experience poor performance and even premature catastrophic failure of the casters. Casters…
January 14, 2016
Casters do an important job of helping you move loads around, and it is important that they work well based your unique needs. If your casters are not functioning at their highest performance levels,more effort will be required for you and your employees, and this can lead to aches, pains and even strain related injuries.…
December 31, 2015
If you need casters you can always go down to the local hardware store or renovation retailer and find what you need, right? This would be true if all casters were equal and could do any job, but this is simply not the case. Casters come with hard or soft wheels, brakes or no brakes,…
December 23, 2015
There is nothing more annoying than installing the perfect casters onto your chair, cart or furniture only to find that you need to immediately remove them. The casters may look fantastic and even roll and function well, but if they are going to ruin your floors then they need to go! Replacing a floor is…
December 17, 2015
When it comes to choosing casters, one of the most popular choices are casters from Colson Caster Corporation. Colson has been in business supplying state-of-the-art casters since 1885, and has over 200,000 different models in their catalogue. With this much experience, Colson has manufactured some very specific casters for specialty uses and some of these…
