This 225,000 lb capacity horizontal test bed is an example of the kinds of products that Chant custom-engineers for applications in the lifting and rigging sector and across a wide variety of industrial environments.


Te process, from concept to prototype to testing to production, took just six weeks. “But that’s what small businesses like ours can do,” said company president Phil Chant, “especially one with the engineering horsepower we have in-house.”


Chant was actually on a business trip with some of his engineers when the lockdown began earlier this year, and they found themselves stuck in a hotel for a week with not much else to do but brainstorm. “We had nowhere to go—nothing was open—and we had a lot of free time. Tat’s what it came down to. We’re sitting around eating dinner—kicking around ideas about what we can do to help people. I was also worried about how this was going to affect our business—whether or not we’d have to lay people off.” Each night, new conversations would emerge and evolve, and


eventually, the topic landed on sanitation. “I’d been online checking out ideas,” said Chant. “It’s a virus, so my brain went to cleaning, sanitation—how do you clean stuff? I came across UV-light sanitation, and eventually some relatively new information on UVC (ultra-violet light) LEDs. And then it came to me: LEDs solve a lot of issues—durability, heat, cost, things like that—and then it just started gelling. What could we do with LEDs?” Chant discussed his ideas with his colleagues, with the


conversation eventually centering on the shortage of masks. “Why don’t we sanitize the masks so folks can reuse them?” he noted.


Chant is also the North American distributor of Talurit equipment.


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