All lifting equipment is affected by the environment at all stages of its lifetime. Two extreme environments we face in the lifting and material handling industry are cold weather and marine environments. Just in the United States, more than a third of the population live in counties directly on the shoreline, and if you take the population residing within 100 miles of the coast that number doubles. Corrosion is a challenge in costal and marine environments as well as in industrial plants and buildings with high humidity.
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