Happy Thanksgiving 2019

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving 2019

We hope that you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow with your friends and family! We are once again reminded of how grateful we are for all of our wonderful customers and hardworking ARI team members. Thank you for allowing us to do what we enjoy doing, year after year. Feast mode, activated!

Snow Plow Adapter TR-SNOW-36

Snow Plows Going Strong = Safer Roads For All

Snow Plow Adapter TR-SNOW-36

When the winter weather adds a layer of danger to busy roads, having a working fleet of snow plows on the job helps ensure that all drivers stays safe. Our TR-SNOW-36 Snow Plow Adapter is designed to raise trucks with side mounted snow plow wings and single or dual rear axles. You can drive over in either direction and the crossbeam engages the tires while keeping them centered in the channel. This snow plow adapter is ALI certified.

If you have any questions, feel free to fill out our online contact form, call us directly at 877-573-3755, or submit a price quote request on the product page.

Snow Plow Adapter TR-SNOW-36
Veterans Day 2019 ARI-HETRA

Happy Veterans Day and Thank You for Your Service!

Veterans Day 2019 ARI-HETRA

Everyone at ARI-HETRA would like to send out a sincere thank you this Veterans Day to all of the amazing men and women who are currently serving and have previously served in the United States Armed Forces. We truly appreciate everything that you do for our great nation.

MAHA ARI-HETRA Partnership Press Release

MAHA USA and ARI-HETRA Join Forces In North America

MAHA ARI-HETRA Partnership Press Release

Two leading brands have partnered to design, manufacture, sell and service products throughout North America resulting in over 80% market share among ball screw driven mobile column lifts.

Las Vegas, NV (November 4, 2019) – After being competitors for over 20 years, ARI-HETRA (ari-hetra.com) and MAHA USA (maha-usa.com), now proudly announce their partnership to design, manufacture, sell and service heavy-duty truck maintenance shop equipment in North America. The flagship product for both companies is the mobile column lift (MCL). MCLs have become the preferred solution to lift trucks weighing as much as 150,000 lbs with any wheelbase or width. As the name implies, mobile column lifts are easily moved between service bays and are purchased at a fraction of the cost of permanently installed drive-on lifts.

Juergen Werner, Managing Director of MAHA USA observed that “Together, our companies have tens of thousands of MCLs installed across the continent. Going forward we will be the dominant provider of ball screw-based MCLs in North America, all proudly made in the USA in MAHA’s world-class, ISO 9001:2015 manufacturing facility in Pinckard, AL. By combining our manufacturing operations, we expect improved efficiency and we look forward to greater innovation through combined product development efforts as well.”

The lifts will be sold under the ARI-HETRA brand whose bright “safety green” products are recognized throughout the US and Canada. The nation-wide ARI Sales and Service team will assume responsibility for ongoing support of all MAHA lifts in the market.

MAHA and ARI have more that unites them than divides them. The MCLs of both MAHA USA and ARI-HETRA utilize the world’s premier mechanism for linear motion – a recirculating ball screw. Gary Hudson, President of ARI-HETRA notes “The recirculating ball screw is truly one of the brilliant inventions of the late 19th century. Ball screw-based MCLs last for decades due to nearly zero friction as the lifting mechanism rolls smoothly on hundreds of ball bearings. With no torque or energy wasted on friction, the lifts are eco-friendly and maintenance consists primarily of bi-annual lubrication. This solution also avoids dangerous and costly leaks common to hydraulics.”

Hudson added, “In a way, history repeats itself here as the MCLs of MAHA and ARI both originate from the designs of the same Swiss-German entrepreneur over thirty years ago. Our coming back together was perhaps inevitable. We can think of this as ‘German engineering meets American ingenuity.’”

If you have any questions, feel free to fill out our online contact form, or call us directly at 877-573-3755.