Material handling equipment encompasses controls, equipment and devices designed to help move your goods from one point to another. It can include equipment like conveyors, forklifts, hand trucks and hoists.

Many industries, including agriculture, coal, coffee and paper, rely on material handling and controls to increase productivity. The type of material handling solutions that a company uses depend on the type of products the company needs to move.

1. Look for material handling controls that work best with dry solids like grain, coffee or coal.

2. Find a material handling control system to increase productivity with liquid goods like gas, water or bio fuel.

3. Save money with wholesale material handling industry products.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Purchase materials handling systems for dry solids

There are a variety of ways to handle and control dry solid goods. Your business may need to control a conveyor belt or the speed of packaging. Or maybe you need to analyze moisture levels during production. Whatever industry you are in, you can find controls specific to it.

I recommend: Material Handling & Controls, which distributes products in TX, LA, OK, MS and AR, provides material handling control systems for dry solids. It also provides a variety of material handling products and services. K-Ton Process Group manufactures controls for material handling and solutions for process control.

Increase productivity with materials handling systems designed for liquids

Transporting or moving liquids may require a more complex system than one for dry solids. Liquids can spill, which means you may need to control bottling and capping as well as provide packaging materials designed to protect your containers during transport.

I recommend: View a presentation of the VERSA automated liquid handling system available from Aurora Biomed. This series allows the user a superior material handling solution for liquid goods. Controls and Instrumentation Company (CIC) provides vapor control and other material handling systems for liquid goods. It also provides solutions for hazardous material handling and storage.

Cut your costs with the wholesale material handling industry

When it comes to the wholesale material handling industry, you will often find companies that offer larger material handling equipment like forklifts. Some wholesale companies specialize in reselling used parts at wholesale prices. Make sure you know what you are buying before you assume that a wholesale dealer is your best option.

I recommend: Material Handling Wholesale specializes in selling used forklifts and parts. It provides a search engine of its inventory. Omni Wholesale Equipment wholesales used forklifts and other material handling items including control systems. If you don't see what you need in its inventory, contact the company.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  When you purchase used material handling controls, make sure you work with a company that provides a money-back guarantee or some other form of protection in case the controls break or don't work properly. You may want to consider having an independent inspection done prior to purchase.