About Lifting Gear UK
The one stop provider for a complete lifting and handling equipment service, with branches throughout the UK. Est. 2007
Whether your requirement is equipment hire, sales, on or off site testing, repairs, LOLER inspections or bespoke fabrications, Lifting Gear UK has both the expertise and equipment to get the job done.
Our products range from heavy lifting and jacking equipment with capacities up to 900 tonnes, through to general site and manual handling equipment to lift just a few kilo’s and can often be delivered to you anywhere in the UK on either a same day or next day basis. In addition we also offer, for both sale and hire, a full range of height safety equipment and solutions for most eventualities.
Lifting Gear UK is proud to be an active part of the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association and has staff who are long standing members of it’s technical committee in addition to a team of qualified technicians & engineers. This means that when you work with us you get the assurance that your job is being handled by a reputable professionally recognised organisation.
We hope to be of service to you soon.

Global presence
Lifting Gear UK Group Ltd belong to the business unit Lifting Solutions within Axel Johnson International. The business group is a global player in lifting equipment, steel wire rope, height safety and services. It operates as a group of companies that supply wire rope, hoists, overhead cranes and other lifting products together with connected services. Lifting solutions has developed rapidly. Having grown from 0 to 420 MEUR in annual sales since 2005, when the first acquisition was made. Today Lifting Solutions consist of 24 market-leading companies with +100 service centers world-wide. Together, the companies serve clients in a wide range of industries, including off-shore, renewable energy, shipping, automotive manufacturing, ports, fish farming, engineering, pulp and paper, mining, and steel.
Even though Lifting Solutions has a short history the companies within the group have a long history in the business and are well known and established in their local markets. Several have even been around for more than a century. Together, they possess a vast resource of specialist knowledge in lifting and steel wire rope.
To read more about the companies in Lifting Solutions, visit www.liftingsolutionsgroup.com
Strong owner
Lifting Gear UK Group Ltd is part of Axel Johnson International, a global industrial group that acquires and develops companies in strategically selected niche markets, primarily technical components and industrial process solutions.
The group is an active and long-term owner whose mission is to drive business development and growth. It builds and develops groups of companies with shared strategic objectives, stimulating joint initiatives and knowledge sharing. Axel Johnson International has six business groups: Driveline Solutions, Fluid Handling Solutions, Industrial Automation, Lifting Solutions, Power Transmission Solutions and Transport Solutions. Axel Johnson International has an entrepreneurial culture where decentralised and committed leadership enables quick decisions. The group has four focus areas: digitalisation, service, sustainability and people development.
Axel Johnson International is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The group comprises 200 companies in 34 countries. Axel Johnson International is part of the Swedish family-owned corporate group Axel Johnson.
You're in safe hands
