Rite-Hite

Rite-Hite is an American company that manufactures loading dock equipment, industrial doors, safety barriers, industrial fans and other in-plant products.^[2] Rite-Hite is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Rite-Hite

Company type	Private
Industry	Dock lifts and safety systems
Founded	1965
Headquarters	Milwaukee, Wisconsin , USA
Number of locations	100
Key people	Michael White, CEO
Products	Materials handling equipment [1]
Number of employees	2,200[1]
Website	https://www.ritehite.com

Overview

Rite-Hite Headquarters in Milwaukee

Rite-Hite was founded in 1965 by Arthur K. White, the father of Rite-Hite’s current owner and chairman, Mike White.^[3] The company has about 200 employees in the Milwaukee area and about 2,200 in its 100 locations worldwide. These include manufacturing facilities in Wisconsin, Iowa, Mississippi, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Denmark, Italy and China.

Products

Rite-Hite’s known products are dock leveling systems, high-speed doors and high-volume low-speed fans.^[1] and vehicle restraints.

Subsidiaries

Rite-Hite subsidiary companies include DuctSox Corporation, and Arbon Equipment Corporation. Most subsidiaries manufacture loading solutions, air dispersion systems, and modular walls and curtains for the environmental separation, machine guarding and area protection purposes.^[3][4]

Recognition

Rite-Hite is a recipient of the 2002 and 2008 Wisconsin Governor's Export Achievement Awards.^[5][6] In 2010, it received an Industrial Maintenance and Plant Operations Magazine's IMPOvation award for the acoustic curtain walls produced by its subsidiary Zoneworks.^[7] It has also received several Plant Engineering magazine's awards, most recently in 2009 the gold award in the Construction, Buildings and Grounds category,^[8] and the grand award in 2010.^[9]