Beacon Industries Inc.

12300 Old Tesson Rd. St. Louis, MO 63128   Toll Free: 800-454-7159 Phone: 314-487-7600 Fax: 314-487-0100

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Gantry Cranes		click to enlarge Gantry cranes are designed for lifting and positioning materials. The various types of gantry cranes , including the aluminum gantry crane, the steel gantry crane and the portable gantry crane, are essential for the efficient operation of many industrial facilities. These cranes are similar to overhead cranes except that they have a bridge for carrying the unit's trolley and are usually supported by two or more rigid legs. Additional related equipment that many industrial companies find indispensable include the lifting jib, the hoist trolley, the festoon system, the chain hoist and the portable lift.
Crane Accessory		click to enlarge A crane accessory is utilized to assist positioning and lifting materials. The various types of a crane accessory includes the hoist trolley, crane trolley or electric chain hoist. Beacon provides a broad range of crane accessories and supplies. Many other crane accessory items include the air chain hoist, cable hoist or the electric hoist. Crane accessory clamps include the beam clamp, plate clamp and pipe lifting clamp. The crane accessory works well with the steel and aluminum gantry crane, portable gantry crane and the bridge crane.
Drum Dumpers		click to enlarge Beacon drum dumpers are designed to assist in the ergonomic handling of all types of industrial drums and pails. Drum dumpers are designed for drum or pail emptying with such equipment as portable drum dumpers and pail dispensers. This product category also features excellent drum dumping and moving equipment, including hydraulic or manual drum dumpers, drum caddies or pail dispensers, drum rotators, pail equipment and drum lift and dump equipment.
Drum Equipment Accessories		click to enlarge Beacon drum equipment accessories are designed to work and assist with drums and drum equipment in the ergonomic handling of all types of industrial drums and pails. Drum equipment accessories are engineered for drum or pail transport, storage or assisting in emptying drums or pails. This drum equipment accessory category also features excellent drum equipment items including the drum dolly or the drum adapter, drum carts or the industrial stand, horizontal steel basins or the drum container, drum storage racks or the drum cradle, drum covers or the swing top trash can, the drum socket and the drum funnel.
Drum Handling Equipment		click to enlarge Beacon drum handling equipment is designed to assist in the ergonomic handling of all types of industrial drums and pails. Drum handling equipment is designed for drum or pail emptying such as portable drum dumpers and pail dispensers. This product category also features excellent drum-moving equipment, including drum carts and drum caddies along with a wide variety of drum hand cradle, drum carrier, and drum hand truck models. Also featured is drum lifting equipment, including drum hoist, drum sling, and portable drum rotator models.
Scissor Lifts		click to enlarge Scissor Lifts are the most essential and often-used types of material handling equipment in the industrialized world. Some scissor lifts are built as small portable carts and designed to lift no more than a couple hundred pounds of material; others are built to maintain a load of 50 tons. Scissor lifts are available to be operated by manual hydraulic foot pump, mechanical screw, electric hydraulic, air hydraulic or air bag. Choose from various scissor lift models to fit many lifting applications.
Lift and Tilt Tables		click to enlarge Beacon tilt and lift tables are designed to minimize worker fatigue and injuries by placing work materials within ergonomically proper reach of personnel. These units include single scissor tilt and lift tables, bench top tilters, efficiency master tilt tables, ground tilters, air corner tilters and zero lift and tilt tables.
Portable Lift Table		click to enlarge The portable lift table can be the most essential and often-used type of material handling equipment in the industrialized world. The Beacon portable lift table is designed either as a small portable lift table and built to lift no more than a couple hundred pounds of material however a heavier capacity portable lift table can maintain a load of over 5,000 pounds. The Beacon portable lift table is designed to be operated by either by a manual hydraulic foot pump, push button control electric hydraulic or air hydraulic. Choose from various Beacon portable lift table units to fit many lifting and transport applications.
Dock Barricades		click to enlarge Beacon loading dock barricades assist as a visual aid in dock-area safety by helping to prevent forklifts from being accidentally driven off the dock edge. The unit is installed quickly by anchoring it to the floor. The electric unit is sumply pluged into the building electrical outlet.
Dock Bumpers		click to enlarge Dock bumper provides excellent protection against equipment damage in dock areas by helping to absorb jolts and impacts between trucks and loading docks. These dock bumper models include laminated dock bumpers, molded dock bumpers, and trailer crane bumpers.
Dock Door Seals		Beacon dock door seals are designed to assist in keeping energy costs down while assisting is theft protection. Dock door seals are available to fit door openings measuring 8' x 8', 8' x 10', 9' x 10' and 10' x 10'.
Dock Levelers		Beacon loading dock levelers correct height differences between trailer or truck beds and loading dock platforms. Dock Levelers are available with hydraulic or manual operation.
Dock Lights		Traffic signal dock lights and loading dock spot lights increase both safety and efficiency in the loading dock area. Loading dock lights illuminate cargo inside semi trailers, providing dock-area workers with maximum visibility and helping them to unload cargo as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
Fans		Beacon commercial blowers, industrial fans and heaters are designed for loading docks, distribution centers, warehouses, factories, garages and similar work areas. These industrial air fans, blowers and heaters assist in air circulation and or temperature control, allowing greater employee comfort.
Ramp		The Beacon ramp is primarily designed to service trucks or loading docks. Wheel risers and truck ramps raise the truck for loading and unloading. Steel ramp is very heavy duty. Wheel risers and truck ramps are designed to facilitate compliance with OSHA requirements for a 10% max grade. Forklift slots are available with steel wheel ramps.
Trailer Jack Stands		Beacon trailer jack stands are vital in helping to provide a safer working environment. They can assist in preventing semi-trailers from upending when they're not connected to a tractor during loading and unloading. Other trailer jack stands help support the front end of a trailer during loading and unloading, and an additional model assists in greater side movement support of a truck. Several trailer jack stands can hold up to 100,000 lbs. of static weight. These products included economy stabilizing jacks, ratchet stabilizing jacks, beam stabilizing jacks and big foot stabilizing jacks.
Truck Restraints		Dock truck restraints help keep loading docks safe by reducing the chance for accidents. Beacon dock truck restraints and trailer restraints are designed to keep trucks and trailers from prematurely pulling away from docks. The truck restraints help to eliminate trailer creep, which can be hazardous to loading crews.
Truck Lifts		Truck lifts feature a push button controlled hydraulic truck lift dock leveler to compensate for uneven heights between the truck bed and the dock.
Wheel Chocks		Beacon wheel chocks are essential for helping to ensure that trucks remain secure in dock areas. Wheel chocks also help to prevent load shifts during loading and unloading. Various wheel chocks feature a textured treadplate to for increased traction, a safety tread on the chock face to provide better grip and a saw-tooth bottom for greater traction. Available units include rubber wheel chocks, industrial rubber wedges, steel wheel chocks, urethane wheel chocks, rail car chocks and aluminum wheel chocks.
Carts		Beacon cart models are designed to transport a wide variety of materials from one workplace area to another. These cart models include general-use carts such as the utility service cart and the storage platform truck as well as models designed to transport certain types of materials such as sheet goods and irregularly shaped items. Additionally, Beacon features cart models designed to transport specific items such as totes, truck batteries and cylinder torches.
Hoppers		Hoppers are ideal for many industrial cleanup applications. Beacon offers a wide variety of this important waste-management equipment, including self dumping hoppers, industrial hoppers, stackable hoppers and towable hoppers. Also featured in this category are excellent dumping hopper, parts hopper and tote dumper models.
Hydraulic Box Dumpers		Beacon hydraulic box dumpers are designed for the controlled dumping industrial-use containers. Push-button operation enables one person to dump a hopper. The hydraulic box dumpers are available with several different dump heights. The lowered height of only 1/2" enables a pallet truck to load or unload. The retaining bars are designed for use of a 24", 30" and 36" high containers.
Material Handling		Beacon material handling includes a wide variety of different types of industrial equipment that many industries find highly beneficial and often essential. This material handling equipment category includes the electric turn table, adjustable turn table or the packaging carousel and electric carousel. Also featured in this product category are the material hanlding tables such as hydraulic lifting table, the adjustable work table and the portable work table.
Pallet Equipment		Beacon pallet equipment greatly improves many aspects of shipping and material handling. These items include pallet movers, economy pallet trucks, pallet trucks with scale and a foldable manual pallet truck. Economy pallet trucks, with their ability to move heavy, bulky pallets, can negate the need of a fork truck.
Pallets		Beacon pallets often are indispensable equipment for product shipping, receiving and storage. Both plastic pallets and aluminum pallets provide a highly cost-effective means of arranging products so that they can be transported with optimum efficiency. Our pallets for drums are an excellent means by which industrial drums can be moved from one workstation to another. Beacon drum spill containers are excellent equipment for drum storage as well as for containing spills and leaks from drums.
Packaging Equipment.		Beacon packaging equipment can be used for a large variety of shipping needs and will significantly help to increase shipping department efficiency. These units include semi-automatic stretch wrap machines, floor scales, wrap films, heat guns, corner protectors and steel strapping and wrap guns..
Pallet Truck		Beacon portable pallet truck is designed to provide excellent heavy lifting capabilities with high maneuverability. These pallet truck units are constructed with ergonomics firmly in mind and work to increase worker comfort and productivity and to reduce worker fatigue and risk of injury. These pallet truck units include hydraulic and winch stackers, a trans-positioner with fork-over design, a portable pallet master fork truck, high rise lift trucks, hydra carts and an adjustable box stacker.
Bollards		Beacon steel bollards and column guards are designed to protect workers and equipment. These products include steel pipe bollards, protective dome covers for bollards, high profile machine guards, structural rack guards, rack protectors and slim column protectors. The steel pipe bollards prevent equipment damage to moving vehicles. Protective dome covers for bollards prevent accidents caused by workers tripping over raised bolts. Column protectors help to protect pipes, tubing and columns from damage.
Guard Rails		The Beacon guard rails are designed for use in warehouses, parking garages, distribution facilities and factories where protection is important. The guard rail posts protect both personnel and equipment visually as well as physically. The guard rail can be used indoors or outdoors and are ideal for protecting building corners and machinery from fork truck and other vehicle damage. Beacon carries both a curved guard rail and a straight guard rail collection. The guard rail system includes tubular posts that are machined for continuous or perpendicular rail mounting. The curved rails feature a 90-degree angle and connect with the straight railing.
Ramps		The Beacon ramp is primarily designed to service trucks or loading docks. Wheel risers and truck ramps raise the truck for loading and unloading. Steel ramp is very heavy duty. Wheel risers and truck ramps are designed to facilitate compliance with OSHA requirements for a 10% max grade. Forklift slots are available with steel wheel ramps.
Vault-Bank Ramps		Beacon hydraulic vault bank ramps compensate for uneven heights between the exterior vault floor at bank vaults and inside the vault room.
Yard Ramps		Beacon yard ramps allow workers to quickly and efficiently load and unload trucks, trailers and other vehicles carrying products. These yard ramps are available as movable steel yard ramps, dock yard ramps, steel yard ramps with edge of dock and aluminum yard ramps with either aluminum or steel grating. Yard ramps are ideal when a loading dock is not available. Dock yard ramps are designed to drive a vehicle up and down a loading dock. steel yard ramps are more economical than aluminum yard ramps. Aluminum yard ramps are generally utilized on the coast line where salt air is present or when the portability by a person is required.
RFID and GPS Inventory Monitor Zone Index Automation		Inventory monitoring technology includes RFID - Radio frequency identification, SAW -Surface acoustical wave, Electromagnetic wave the barcode and GPS - Global positioning system which allow for a zone to be monitored for inventory control management with real time indexing and visibility. Inventory control process with upload database management is achieved without the human element. This can be achieved today with the technology of windows, broadband, encryption, wi-fi, RFID scanners, tags, receivers and satellites. Today RFID, SAW, Electromagnetic, Barcode and GPS markets have crossed and are now one.
Safety Products		Beacon safety products and safety equipment are designed to protect workers, the public and/or equipment. In addition to physical protection, some of these products, such as safety signs and warning signs are designed to quickly communicate the proximity of possible safety hazards. These safety products and equipment include traffic cones, expand-a-gates, crowd control interlocking barriers, portable gates and stainless steel railings.
Storage Solutions		Beacon storage solutions are essential items for many distribution centers, warehouses, assembly stations and shipping areas. Depending upon each model's application, these products can maximize valuable storage space, enable storage of various-sized items in a single unit, can provide secure daytime access as well as fully dependable nighttime security. These storage solutions include galvanized steel folding gates, pre-engineered rooms, braces and racks, visibility lockers and horizontal steel basins.
Storage Racks		Click one of the 16 highlighted links for pricing and product descriptions of our Storage Racks.