About us & History

The roots of Mecalift go back to the year 1981. Operation under the current name was founded in 1993. Mecalift uses Meclift, a well-known and established name, as a brand name in its marketing and communication.

From 2019 the company is owned by Lännen MCE Oy, Sign Systems Finland Oy and Credos Oy. Chairman of the board is Mr. Timo Huttunen. Other members of the board are Juhani Eskelinen, Jarmo Viitala and Janne Kalliomäki. Janne Kalliomäki works also as the CEO of the company.

Meclift specializes in innovative materials handling equipment for ports, railroads, road transports, and diverse fields of industry. Our commitment to helping our customers worldwide to handle materials even in the most demanding conditions, we focus on their needs and operating conditions in the design and manufacturing of our products.

The Meclift range of products and services responds to several different material handling needs. Our Meclift™ Variable Reach Trucks cover lifting capacity ranges from 18 tons to 42 tons.

Our strength in supporting our customers resides in an innovative business culture, which provides a fruitful base to successful R&D and individual solutions. We’re driven by our passion for facilitating the operations of our clients by offering competitive solutions, being proactive, and responding to requests swiftly.

To enable diverse utilization of the Meclift™ machinery, we listen to our customers when designing new lifting attachments to our products. Doing this allows us to meet the individual needs of cargo and other material handling companies. That is why also small production volumes are interesting to us. Numerous international patents cover our unique product range.

Customers operating in a wide range of industry fields in approximately 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America are operating Meclift™ machinery. We are also a framework supplier for the state of Finland.