Process Controls

Lift-A-Loft is an engineering, manufacturing and marketing company that devotes its time, energies and efforts toward producing, selling and supporting safe, reliable and versatile products. These include aerial work platforms, ground support equipment for the airline industry, and custom equipment for customers with specific application requirements. Beginning operations in the 1940s, Lift-A-Loft manufactured outdoor truck mounted units to service street lights. The concept of relamping and light maintenance was soon adapted to industrial applications when the first Lift-A-Loft model was manufactured in October of 1952. As new needs developed throughout the marketplace, Lift-A-Loft began to broaden its focus. It now manufactures lifts for the application of maintenance, productivity, service, inspection and work process.

Mears Machine Corporation, founded in 1966, is a supplier of precision machined components and complex fabrications to a wide range of industries. The company has a strategic relationship with all the major aircraft engine manufacturers. Mears begins the quality equation with trained machinists that have extensive experience with a wide variety of materials, such as nickel, cobalt, iron, aluminum and titanium-based alloys. From design and development to reverse engineering, Mears has relied upon key customers for complex, innovative product and tool design solutions. Mears maintains a wide variety of traditional machine shop capabilities, including manual and CNC machine tools for turning, grinding, milling and the most advanced water jets and lasers.