{"id":42,"date":"2026-02-17T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmhecdev.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:12:43","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cmhec.com\/?page_id=42","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Cranston Material Handling Equipment Corp. was founded in 1957 by Harwood J. Cranston. Harwood was a chemist and sold chemical additives to paint manufactures and heavy industry through out western Pennsylvania. In 1960 his son David Cranston Sr. joined him in the business and began to sell shelving, racks, and other types of storage equipment to the company\u2019s existing customers. Overtime the breath of the company\u2019s product line grew to include all types of material handling equipment. In 1983 David Cranston Jr. joined his father and grandfather in the business. The company continues to grows to fifteen material handling professionals that continue to service our clients throughout the country.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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At Cranston Material Handling Equipment Corp., it is our belief that our employees are the most important asset we have, and maintaining their health and safety must always remain a top priority in every aspect of our business.<\/p>

Lancaster Safety Consulting, Inc. to design our safety programs to match our work environment, conduct safety, and health training, and help keep us compliant with all of the applicable OSHA standards.<\/p>

When you choose to utilize our installation services, you can be confident that our employees are trained to respect and adhere to your facility-specific safety standards during the installation.<\/p>

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCranston's Account Managers will come to your facility in order to see your work area in order to clearly understand the projects objectives. We are then able to propose a solution to meet your specific needs.

Layout and design services<\/u><\/a> for material handling, lifting, and storage equipment, modular offices, & office furniture.  Working with our manufactures we can develop an engineered solution for your unique challenge.

Project management to oversee the design, timely delivery, and installation of components from various manufactures.

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    About us Problem solvers for over 6 decades Cranston – a family tradition Our story Cranston Material Handling Equipment Corp. was founded in 1957 by Harwood J. Cranston. Harwood was a chemist and sold chemical additives to paint manufactures and heavy industry through out western Pennsylvania. In 1960 his son David Cranston Sr. joined him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}