Somers Handling

Industries served

Lifting and handling equipment engineered for heavy industry.

Somers Handling's equipment goes into primary steel mills, aluminium producers, rail depots, aerospace fabrication halls, civil nuclear programmes and grid-scale power installations. Pick a sector below to see the products we specify, the case studies we're allowed to publish, and the standards we typically work to.

Somers multi-point billet lifting beam suspended over freshly-cast aluminium billets at a primary aluminium casting facility.

Aluminium

Billet lifting beams, coil handling and bespoke equipment for primary aluminium producers, rolling mills and extrusion plants — Wednesbury-built, engineered for hot-line and continuous-casting duty.

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85-tonne motorised duplex slab tong on the Wednesbury shop floor, built for ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India.

Steel

Slab tongs, coil grabs, C-hooks and hot-line handling equipment for integrated steel producers, continuous casters, rolling mills and service centres — engineered for high-duty cycles and temperatures up to 1,000 °C.

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Somers bogie rotator with yellow rack-driven columns supporting a rail vehicle bogie in a depot workshop.

Rail

Synchronised vehicle lifting jacks, bogie rotators, pit-mounted scissor lifts and workshop handling for UK rail depots and rolling-stock OEMs — designed for the duty cycle of heavy maintenance overhauls.

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Under-slung yellow monorail system spanning an aerospace composites hall, with suspended electric chain hoists at each station.

Aerospace

Monorail systems, clean-hall handling, jib cranes and bespoke lifters for aerospace composites, tooling cells and NDT operations — engineered for low-particulate environments and tight geometric constraints.

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Somers bespoke turnover manipulator on the Wednesbury shop floor — representative of the structural-steel work our nuclear-sector handling equipment is built from.

Nuclear

Bespoke lifting equipment with customer-standard material traceability, weld qualification and documentation for UK civil nuclear decommissioning and new-build programmes.

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Somers bespoke lifting structure on the Wednesbury shop floor — representative of heavy-duty engineered lifting used in the energy sector.

Energy

Bespoke lifting beams and frames for wind turbine components, power-station transformer installations, oil and gas modules, and downstream grid equipment — engineered to project-specific load cases.

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Large-span overhead gantry and monorail system in a Somers-equipped handling facility — representative of the heavy handling systems we supply into ports and logistics terminals.

Logistics and ports

Lifting beams, C-hooks, bespoke frames and monorail systems for port terminals, container and break-bulk handling, steel-stock warehousing and inland logistics operators.

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Interior of a Somers production workshop with yellow overhead crane runway — the manufacturing capacity behind the bespoke lifting equipment we supply to construction and civil-engineering programmes.

Civil engineering and construction

Bespoke spreader beams, precast-segment lifting frames, davits and project-specific rigging for civil engineering, infrastructure and major construction programmes.

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Green Somers pillar jib crane installed at a UK water-utility pumping station — representative of the jibs specified into utility infrastructure across the country.

Utilities

Jib cranes, lifting davits and bespoke handling equipment for water utilities, power distribution, gas networks and telecoms infrastructure — including man-riding and confined-space access.

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