Rite-Hite

Rite-Hite is an American manufacturer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, recognized worldwide as a leader in the development, manufacture and sale of loading-dock equipment, industrial safety products and material-handling solutions. Founded in 1965 by Arthur K. White, the privately held company operates around 100 locations worldwide and employs roughly 2,200 people across its global organization. Rite-Hite designs products that improve safety, security, productivity and energy efficiency at the loading dock and inside industrial plants.

Its portfolio includes dock-leveling systems, vehicle and trailer restraints, high-speed industrial doors, loading-dock seals and shelters, safety barriers and barricades, high-volume low-speed (HVLS) industrial fans, and environmental and in-plant separation products. The company is best known for inventing the Dok-Lok vehicle restraint, introduced in 1980, a mechanical device that secures trailers to loading docks to prevent trailer separation accidents; its versatile hook and barrier restraint designs address more types of trailer/dock separation hazards than competing systems.

Rite-Hite increasingly integrates automation, sensors and electronic controls into its dock equipment, offering fully controlled and interlocked dock systems that coordinate restraints, levelers, doors and communication lights to enforce safe loading sequences. The company serves manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, logistics, food and cold-chain, and other industrial sectors through a global network of representatives and engineered-solutions teams. With decades of innovation in industrial safety and loading-dock automation, Rite-Hite supports facilities seeking to reduce accidents, protect workers and increase throughput at the interface between transport and warehouse operations.