Used Industrial Equipment – A Path to Lower Costs and Faster Purchases As nice as purchasing new industrial and material handling equipment can be, current pricing levels are today urging more and more buyers to evaluate used equipment as an equally viable choice. Although new equipment costs have started to correct after the last few years of inflationary trends, there is still a notable price gap between new and used options that makes used options highly attractive. In addition, the expansionary spending of the last decade has resulted in a very high population of healthy, great quality, lo ..read more

MH Equipment Company is pleased to announce its recognition by Yale Lift Truck Technologies with the 2023 Dealer of Excellence award. This annual award honors Yale dealers that have exhibited focused leadership and continue to drive their customers to the highest level of performance in all functional areas of materials handling.   To receive the Dealer of Excellence award, Yale dealers must meet rigorous business practice standards and performance criteria which are assessed and modified annually to ensure alignment with evolving customer expectations and heightened industry demands. “Ou ..read more

MH Equipment Company is pleased to announce its recognition by Hyster Company with the 2023 Dealer of Distinction award. This annual award recognizes top-performing dealers across the country that drives their organizations to the highest level of sales and service performance.    To be named a Hyster Dealer of Distinction, Hyster dealers must meet defined business practices and overall rigorous performance standards that are updated annually to keep pace with evolving customer expectations and industry dynamics.  “Every year, Dealer of Distinction recipients demonstrate their w ..read more

Logistics centers operate on two core metrics: throughput volume and order accuracy. A limiting factor to both of these metrics has long been tied to human labor – you can only fit so many people into a small space and expect them to be productive. Warehouses and distribution facilities embody this exact paradigm, being built out to maximize storage areas at the expense of human and vehicle traffic areas. Putting all of this together, we’re faced with a logistics design challenge, and that is how to minimize material movement space while maximizing accurate productivity within that space. The ..read more

PRESS RELEASE: MH Equipment Company has been awarded the MVP (Most Valuable Partner) Award for its outstanding achievements in 2023 by their industry trade association, The Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA). This achievement marks the 11th straight year that MH Equipment Company has achieved the Award.  The MVP Award is a coveted accolade within the industry, with fewer than 10% of MHEDA’s member organizations earning this distinction. MH Equipment’s continued recognition as an MVP within the industry underscores a commitment to excellence, professionalism, and ..read more

Renting Industrial Equipment ̶ A Case for Operational Efficiency If we were to pick a single standout lesson about distribution business management that recent turbulent years have taught us, it would be that success can too often boil down to an organization’s flexibility. The need for flexibility can manifest in many ways – sometimes companies need to rapidly reduce overhead costs, diversify their product mix, respond to massive demand spikes, or pivot to secondary supply chains, all with little to no prior notice.  The material handling sector is just as much impacted by this need for ..read more

MH Equipment Company recently completed an agreement to acquire the St. Louis, Missouri based Armor Equipment, which sells and services equipment to private and municipal refuse, sewer, and street equipment customers in Missouri, Kansas, and Southern Illinois. Armor distributes a full line of new and used equipment, including refuse trucks, street sweepers, sewer equipment, sewer cameras, and roll-off hoists. The company opened in St. Louis in 1970 and has grown steadily to reach more than $20 million in annual sales in 2022. According to MH Equipment’s CEO John Wieland, “Armor Equipment has d ..read more

Types of Forklift Attachments and Their Purpose      In its most basic form, a new forklift comes equipped with two forks on a fixed vertical mast, and these forks are only able to raise straight up or straight down. All of the other functionality that we could expect out of the forks are thanks to optional attachments that build on top of this foundation. In the same way that most people today expect automobiles to come with powered windows at minimum instead of window hand cranks (remember those!), most of us in material handling expect a forklift to come with fork t ..read more

Peoria, Ill. (October 31, 2023) – MH Equipment Company recently completed an agreement to acquire the Johnston, Iowa based Mid-Iowa Solid Waste Co. Inc., which sells and services environmental equipment to municipal, contractor, and business customers across Iowa and Nebraska. The products that are represented by Mid-Iowa include industrial sewer cleaning and inspection equipment, street sweepers, refuse collection vehicles, waste compactors as well as balers and conveyors used in the recycling industry. The company opened in 1975 and has grown steadily to reach $10 million in annual sales in ..read more

OSHA’s Safety Requirements governing forklifts and powered industrial trucks covers three categories, which are: Training and Certification Requirements – this body of OSHA code covers standards that employees must meet in order to legally operate a forklift. Operational Requirements – once certified, operators and owners have additional requirements to meet during the ongoing use of a forklift. Application-Specific Requirements – certain operating conditions and applications come along with unique risks, and these requirements help protect employees exposed to such conditions.  For you ..read more