The range includes two Eco Lifter air hoists, 500kg and 800kg capacity, which have a JD Neuhaus air motor design.
More than 17,000 units of all products were made in 2005, plus 200,000 items mechanically subcontracted. The company employs 48 employees in its factory in Ferrières, France.
The company recently supplied five electric winches to help construct a 1,450m-deep zinc mine access shaft in Finland. Breaking force was ten times nominal load. Each winch spools 420m of wire rope and is controlled by an electronic variable-frequency drive system. Each winch is set into framework so that it can be lowered during shaft construction.
Originally a clockmaker, the company traces its history back to 1832, when it was founded by Auguste-Lucien Vérité, creator of astronomical clocks of Beauvais and Besançon. Winch production began in 1948, which makes the company the first French manufacturer of winches, it claims.
