Rite-Hite

Rite-Hite
Private
Industry Dock lifts and safety systems
Founded 1965
Headquarters Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Number of locations
 100
Key people
 Michael White, CEO
Products Materials handling equipment [1]
Website http://www.ritehite.com

Rite-Hite is an American company that manufactures loading dock equipment, industrial doors, safety barriers, industrial fans and other in-plant products.[2] Rite-Hite is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Overview

Rite-Hite was founded in 1965 by Arthur K. White, the father of Rite-Hite’s current owner and chairman, Mike White.[3] The company has about 200 employees in the Milwaukee area and about 1,500 in its 100 locations world-wide. These include manufacturing facilities in Wisconsin, Iowa, Mississippi, Colorado, Michigan and Ontario and manufacturing plants in Kunshan, China, Volkmarsen, Germany; and Jawor, Poland.[1][3]

Products

Rite-Hite’s best known products are dock leveling systems, trailer restraints, high-speed doors and high-volume low-speed fans.[1]

Subsidiaries

Rite-Hite subsidiary companies include Frommelt Safety Products, DuctSox Corporation, Zoneworks, Caljan Rite-Hite and Arbon Equipment Corporation. Most subsidiaries manufacture loading solutions, air dispersion systems, and modular walls and curtains for the environmental separation, machine guarding and area protection purposes.[3][4]

Recognition

Rite-Hite is a recipient of the 2002 and 2008 Wisconsin Governor's Export Achievement Awards.[5][6] In 2010, it received an Industrial Maintenance and Plant Operations Magazine's IMPOvation award for the acoustic curtain walls produced by its subsidiary Zoneworks.[7] It has also received several Plant Engineering magazine's awards, most recently in 2009 the gold award in the Construction, Buildings and Grounds category,[8] and the grand award in 2010.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Decker, Eric (April 30, 2010). "Rite-Hite Co. LLC". BizTimes.
  2. ↑ Mahan, Larry (September 2009). "Q&A with Joe Manone, Vice President of Rite-Hite". Industrial Maintenance and Plant Operations Magazine.
  3. 1 2 3 "About Us". Rite-Hite. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Curve conveyor from Caljan Rite-Hite transports 40 million items annually". Warehousenews. October 2, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Rite-Hite receives export achievement award". Refrigerated Transporter. October 1, 2002.
  6. ↑ "Governor's Export Achievement Award Winners". Wisconsin Department of Commerce Newsletter. June 2008.
  7. ↑ "2010 Impovation Award Winners". Industrial Maintenance and Plant Operations Magazine. December 2010.
  8. ↑ Vavra, Bob (April 1, 2010). "Spring into productivity". Plant Engineering.
  9. ↑ "Product of the Year 2010 Winners". Plant Engineering. March 22, 2011.
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