Key people Michael White, CEO Founded 1965 Type of business Private | Founder Arthur Kent White Number of locations 100 | |
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Industry Dock lifts and safety systems Products Materials handling equipment Headquarters Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Profiles | ||
Rite-Hite is an American company that manufactures loading dock equipment, industrial doors, safety barriers, industrial fans and other in-plant products. Rite-Hite is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Overview
Rite-Hite was founded in 1965 by Arthur K. White, the father of Rite-Hite’s current owner and chairman, Mike White. The company has about 200 employees in the Milwaukee area and about 2,000 in its 100 locations world-wide. These include manufacturing facilities in Wisconsin, Iowa, Mississippi, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Denmark and China.
Products
Rite-Hite’s known products are dock leveling systems, high-speed doors and high-volume low-speed fans. and vehicle restraints.
Subsidiaries
Rite-Hite subsidiary companies include DuctSox Corporation, Caljan 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.
Recognition
Rite-Hite is a recipient of the 2002 and 2008 Wisconsin Governor's Export Achievement Awards. In 2010, it received an Industrial Maintenance and Plant Operations Magazine's IMPOvation award for the acoustic curtain walls produced by its subsidiary Zoneworks. It has also received several Plant Engineering magazine's awards, most recently in 2009 the gold award in the Construction, Buildings and Grounds category, and the grand award in 2010.