William Hair established Crane-Tech, Inc. (CTI) and has service Chicago and the Chicagoland area since December 1993. Under Mr. Hair’s entrepreneurial drive and leadership, CTI is positioned as a Leader in turnkey material handling systems. These turnkey lifting solutions include Cranes, Hoists, Manipulators, Vacuum Lifts and Torque Arms with lift capacity ranging from 250 LBS. to 55 tons. In February of 2019, Michael Erlenbach assumed ownership of CTI. Mr. Erlenbach built a strong business relationship with Mr. Hair while working as contract sales representative prior to ownership. Mr. Hair continues in an active role for CTI allowing the current ownership to leverage his vast material handling solution expertise.
Crane-Tech, Inc. has positioned the organization as Chicago and the Chicagoland area premiere Gorbel Ergonomic Dealer. CTI offers a full line of ergonomic material handling solutions and represents manufacturers recognized as industry leaders. Since 1993, CTI has provided innovative and scalable solutions for companies in the distribution, food processing, steel, packaging, plastics, general manufacturing, as well as advanced material, glass, and stone fabrication.
CTI specializes in manipulator solutions providing quick pay-back through increased productivity while delivering an ease-of-use application. Additionally, the manipulators are built-to-suit providing an innovative ergonomic solution. Besides providing manipulators, CTI offers a full line of pallet loading and unloading assistance, material storage, lift assistance and shop layout assistance solutions.
CTI proudly represents the Gorbel’s full line of ergonomic and material handling solutions. Gorbel is recognized as the industry leader in Workstation Cranes, Jib Cranes, Monorails, Easy Arm®, and G-Force® Hoist Technology. CTI has been proudly presented Gorbel’s Outstanding Dealer Award each year since 2020, in recognition of CTI’s outstanding performance.
