OZ Lifting Products hometown of Winona, MN Photo Credit: WRE Photo


“THERE WAS A NEED, AND A MARKET, TO MAKE DAVIT CRANES MORE PORTABLE AND EASIER TO USE, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CUSTOMER. SO, WHAT WE DID WAS SET OUT TO REDESIGN, AND IN SOME WAYS, RE-INVENT A DAVIT CRANE...”


industry, materials science advances lead to new, higher- performance products. Tennis rackets, motorsports, boat racing, aircraft, etc. I imagine all these advances were met with skepticism at the time. But illustrating advances in material sciences in other industries, and letting the performance of our product speak for itself, has helped to demonstrate how our davit crane can be an improvement over traditional construction.” Napieralski agrees. “It’s a paradigm shift for some people, because, especially with our composites, the natural material is steel. But this composite opens up a whole different spectrum and is finding its own little niche in various places, which has been fun.” Lucas added, “We’re seeing quite a bit of traction in the building-maintenance sector as well as submersible pump market. Roof-top applications certainly benefit from a light-weight crane that can be moved from base to base and assembled by one person. And in the submersible pump market, we get positive feedback on the corrosion resistance of our composite materials. Ultimately, people get very excited about the weight


reduction—there’s just a certain reluctance in believing that something so light can lift something so heavy. In this case, twelve-hundred pounds.” None of the CompOZite Davit Crane’s success and/ or capability surprises Napieralski. After all, it’s built using the same principles and philosophy upon which he built the company. “At the end of the day, I keep the business as simple


as possible,” he maintained. “I pride the company on doing right by the customer and creating a win- win. If there’s a way to make work safer, easier, more productive—we’re going to explore that and innovate. We maximize a can-do attitude, and that resonates with people. Our goal is to give folks a product that’s been one hundred percent tested and inspected, delivered on time, every time. We say what we do, and we do what we say.” y


For more information, visit www.ozliftingproducts.com.


WIRE ROPE EXCHANGE MAY–JUNE 2018


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