UK engineered · delivered worldwide
Advanced Lifting and Handling Solutions
Somers Handling designs and builds slab handling, coil and sheet steel handling, rail vehicle lifting, jib cranes, spreader beams, billet lifting beams and bespoke lifting equipment — engineered at our Wednesbury works in the UK for steel, aluminium, rail, aerospace, nuclear and energy customers in the UK and internationally.
- BS EN 13155 · lifting accessories
- LOLER 1998 · compliant design
- UKAS · accredited inspection
- CE / UKCA · marked
- Made in the UK
Product range
Engineered for the load, built for the duty.
Nine core product lines — from standard jib cranes and spreader beams to hands-free scissor tongs and one-off bespoke lifting solutions.
Slab handling equipment
Tongs, grabs and bespoke solutions for steel, aluminium and foundry slab handling — foundry-rated and designed for high cycle counts.
- Steel
- Foundry
Coil and sheet steel handling
C-hooks, coil tongs and sheet grabs engineered for mill environments, with load ranges tailored to your coil geometry.
- Steel mills
Rail vehicle lifting
Rail vehicle lifting jacks, bogie rotators and workshop handling equipment — for depot maintenance and rolling-stock OEMs.
- Rail
Jib cranes
Pillar, wall-mounted and articulated jib cranes, UK-manufactured from 60 kg up to 10 tonnes, manual or powered slewing.
- 60kg–10t
- UK-built
Cranes, gantries and monorails
Overhead cranes, portable gantries and monorail systems engineered to your span, duty and working environment.
- Overhead
Spreader beams and lifting frames
Bespoke and modular spreader beams, H-frames and balanced lifting frames to BS EN 13155 — CAD-engineered to your load geometry.
- BS EN 13155
Lifting davits and sockets
Portable and fixed lifting davits with cast-in sockets — for confined-space access, man-riding and plant maintenance.
- Confined-space
Automatic gravity scissor tongs
Hands-free latch-open, latch-close scissor tongs for slab lifting — operator-safe and suited to high-temperature environments.
- Slab
- Hands-free
Bespoke lifting equipment
Custom lifting equipment engineered end-to-end for non-standard loads, duty cycles and environments — FEA-validated design.
- One-off
Services
From concept to commissioned — and through service life.
Independent design consultancy, UK manufacture, and ongoing support — including statutory inspection, modernisation and UKAS-accredited calibration.
Design consultancy
Feasibility, concept and detail design for lifting and handling equipment — independent advice before tendering.
Learn moreDesign and manufacture
End-to-end design and manufacture in the UK, with in-house fabrication, machining and assembly.
Learn moreRepairs, servicing and modernisation
Overhaul, repair and modernisation of ageing lifting equipment — return-to-service or capability upgrade.
Learn moreIndustries served
Purpose-built for heavy industry.
Somers Handling equipment is specified into primary steel mills, rail depots, aerospace fabrication halls, civil nuclear facilities, large-scale construction sites and water-industry plant rooms across the UK.
- SectorSteel
- SectorRail
- SectorAerospace
- SectorNuclear
- SectorConstruction
- SectorWater & utilities
Case studies
Engineered lifting solutions in the field.
A family of billet lifting beams for a global aluminium leader
Coordinated range of purpose-built lifting beams covering the full variety of billets produced on one of the most advanced primary aluminium facilities in the Middle East.
Read case study 85-tonne motorised duplex slab tong for ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India
Heavy-duty motorised duplex slab tong designed to lift slabs up to 85 tonnes at temperatures approaching 1,000 °C across a demanding slab envelope — for one of India's leading integrated steel producers.
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A hydraulic billet tong built to outlast its predecessor
15-tonne hydraulic billet tong for a leading European specialist-steel mill — direct replacement for a Somers tong that ran reliably for 20+ years, Factory-Acceptance-Tested at Wednesbury under customer witness.
Read case studyHave a lifting challenge we should look at?
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