by Joe Landsverk Exchange Your Cups Today! Every day the ER staff stands ready! Suddenly, a bay door opens, a sharply dressed, uniformed attendant carefully transfers injured, over-worked, tired and aging vacuum cups… Read more »
WPG News
The WPG News section features articles, announcements, and helpful resources for professionals who use vacuum lifters, hand cups, mounting cups, and other material handling tools. Browse product updates, application tips, safety information, company news, and insights related to glass handling, construction, manufacturing, and installation work.
Keeping Safe Through Regular Maintenance of Your Powr-Grip Vacuum Lifter
by Byron LaRue It has been a long construction season. Your vacuum lifter has performed well. Now that things are slowing down, it's a good time to step back and take care of the tool that has helped you out and made… Read more »
Build It and They Will Come
by David Peters Where would you expect to find a 65-foot-tall Ferris wheel, a shooting gallery, hundreds of exotic salt water fish and 24 flavors of Granny's delicious homemade fudge? If you said the county fair,… Read more »
POWR-GRIP VACUUM CUPS CHANGED THE CULTURE OF GLASS HANDLING
by Andrew Pector Transporting glass in 1927. Little changed in glass handling until the introduction of Hand-Held Vacuum Cups. I was 16 years old. It was 1967. While working at my after school job, cleaning up in a… Read more »
Give Those Textured Surfaces a Lift
by Lisa Hagel If you thought Wood's Powr-Grip® Hand-Held Vacuum Cups did not work on pattern glass or other textured surfaces, we have a surprise for you! Powr-Grip Textured Surface vacuum cups have been redesigned to… Read more »
Wood's Powr-Grip Celebrates 50 Years with Some Big Changes!
The Wood's Powr-Grip Team This year is the 50th Anniversary of Wood's Powr-Grip® Company, Incorporated so we're marking it in a number of BIG ways! Throughout the year, we will be sharing our photos, memories,… Read more »