Industries
Northshore Manufacturing offers 3 main product lines that are marketed under the Builtrite™ Brand. We also produce components for several O.E.M.’s and tackle custom projects within our realm of expertise. Under the Builtrite™ brand we produce a full line of Stationary Electric Material Handlers, Truck Mounted Material Handlers and a full line of Grapple Attachments that are found in the following industries:
Solid Waste / C & D Recycling
Our products are found throughout North America and the world working at various solid waste facilities and C & D operations including waste transfer stations, waste to energy facilities, municipalities, private waste contractors, etc. In transfer stations, our stationary electric material handlers are found loading and tamping solid waste into semi trailers or loading and sorting it onto conveyors. Truck Mounted Material Handlers are used by a number of municipalities and private waste haulers to pick up roadside waste. We offer a number of attachments for these machines to make them as versatile as possible.
Scrap Handling
Northshore Manufacturing has been consistently increasing their market share in the scrap recycling industry, offering a variety of Stationary Electric Material Handlers and accompanying heavy duty attachments for feeding shredder’s, balers, and Shears. Northshore Manufacturing also supplies O.E.M. products that are used in the waste recycling industry. A wide assortment of 4-Tine Orange Peel, Car, Demolition, and Clamshell grapples are also available.
Pulpwood/Forestry
We offer a wide variety of products for the pulpwood/forestry industry, including stationary electric material handlers for loading 8’ length logs onto conveyors or chippers. Our heavy duty pulpwood grapples are designed for extreme duty applications and can be fitted to our stationary material handlers or other O.E.M. mobile material handlers.
Railroad Maintenance
Builtrite™ truck mounted, knuckleboom material handlers are widely used with a number of the major North American railroads, performing a wide variety of maintenance related work. Due to the variation of work and sometimes under extreme conditions, our material handlers are designed to perform and last. We are also very saftey conscious, providing features like extra wide, heavy duty, grip strut ladders and extensive guarding around the operator platform. Safety is further enhanced by the use of load locks on all cylinders.
Electrical Utility / Foundation Drilling
Our truck mounted material handlers can be found with many electrical utility and foundation drilling contractors, loading matting, work tools, attachments, etc. to their work sites. The model 2200-TM is the most popular with these contractors as they offer heavy lift capability with high torque rotation, a combination that allows them to handle a wide variety of materials in a wide variety of on and off road terrain.
Mining / Steel Mills / Foundries
Over the years, we have supplied several unique types of equipment for the mining, steel and foundry industries. Included is a mill liner replacement handler for changing out rod mill liners (large castings), a truck mounted cable reel handler for moving electric mine cable from site to site, slag pot tipper and material handler for cleaning out slag pots, processing the slag and handling castings.
Landscaping
We offer a number of small skid steer and mini excavator attachments that are ideal for the landscaping industry to pick and place landscape rock/boulders, logs or other items.
