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You may have noticed some significant changes have been made to our website… yes that’s right… we’ve completely rebuilt it to bring you faster speeds, better functionality, easier navigation, and an all-round smoother shopping experience.

A change of leadership at Lifting Equipment Store sees George Dunn stepping into his new role as Managing Director for the UK business. 

Following our new distribution partnership with Armorgard, here at Lifting Equipment Store UK, we would like to take this opportunity to discuss the importance of hazardous substance storage, and provide you with some easy to remember tips and tricks to ensure that you’re storing your chemicals, in turn, guaranteeing the safety of your onsite personnel – afterall, your safety is always the priority.

September 2022 marks the 10 year anniversary of Lifting Equipment Store – and what a journey it has been!  

Opening our very first doors in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in 2012, a place that we still call home today, Lifting Equipment Store began to establish its online presence, creating a bespoke website containing all the products our now loyal customers want, need, and love.

If you are involved in an industry with heavy machinery or loads, you have likely heard of crane scales. This is because they can be the ideal solution for weighing large industrial applications and you might already use them within your business and with your customers. In this article, we will go into more depth about the other benefits purchasing this item can have for your company and additional safety measures to take in order to keep safe.

LES recently had the pleasure of producing bespoke lifting accessories for a global market leader in the Aerospace industry. After careful and precise measuring a solution was formed and we could begin the procedure to get these Tyres off the ground and into the air! 

Hydraulic lifting equipment is a mainstay in most industrial workplaces and warehouses, and at the Lifting Equipment Store, we stock a number of tools that utilise hydraulic technology to make your life easier. Hydraulics are operated via pumps, using oil solutions and pistons to apply and distribute pressure either with or without the use of external power sources.

In any warehouse or loading bay, there’s going to be a lot of heavy lifting to be done. While we might pride ourselves on how much we can carry, when it comes to moving pallets up to a tonne in weight, it’s about time to use some lifting equipment.

Traditionally forklift trucks are used to offload goods supplied on pallets going into storage and then out for shipping or loading, but, they have so much more potential. There are so many lifting and moving jobs that need to be carried out in an industrial environment where you can put your forklift to good use. Just by adding attachments, you can dramatically improve the capability of your forklift by turning it into a multi-purpose handling tool.

You've likely heard of magnets due to being used for small applications such as pinning items to a wall or memorabilia to a fridge. But what if we asked you about lifting magnets? Did you know that magnets are a big enabler of lifting heavy items?