About Us
At Unitran Manufacturing, we have been building warehouse equipment from Surrey, British Columbia since 1965, focused on reliable material handling solutions for operations across Western Canada. Sixty years in, we still design and build our own hand trucks, steel carts, rolling ladders, storage mezzanines, and specialty equipment in-house, and we finish every piece with our own powder coating line rather than outsourcing it. That is what makes us different: your operation gets equipment built and finished under one roof, by the same Surrey team, since the mid-1960s.
Our production floor is staffed by welders, powder coaters, and fabricators who have spent years learning the specific tolerances that make a hand truck or a stocking cart hold up under daily warehouse use, not just look good on day one. We hire directly into these roles rather than rotating in short-term labour, and that continuity shows up in the consistency of what leaves our shop.
Why Choose a Canadian-Made Warehouse Equipment Manufacturer?
If your operation needs equipment that survives daily loading, staging, and yard use without cutting corners, choose a manufacturer that builds and finishes onsite rather than assembling imported parts. We have done exactly that from a single Surrey, BC facility since 1965: welded tubular construction, in-house powder coating, and a product line built specifically for warehouse and industrial floors rather than adapted from consumer equipment.
Technological Prowess
We have continuously invested in the machinery behind our products, not just the products themselves. Computerized forming, punching, and shearing equipment lets us hold tighter tolerances across a production run, so a cart or rack ordered today matches the one your operation ordered last year. Our precision fabrication line handles the tubular steel construction that goes into our hand trucks and carts, and our in-house powder coating booth applies a UV-resistant polyester powder finish baked on rather than sprayed and air-dried. We also run an environmentally friendly reclaim and recycle process on our powder coating line, so overspray gets reused instead of scrapped. Refined fabrication methods let us hold this quality without pushing the price past what your operation should reasonably pay.
Quality From Start to Finish
Every product starts with heavy-walled tubing rather than lighter stock, because a hand truck or platform cart that flexes under load is a liability on your floor, not a convenience. We weld tubular joints rather than bolting or riveting them, which keeps the frame rigid through years of loading and unloading. The powder coat finish that follows is not cosmetic. It is a barrier against the scrapes, moisture, and daily abuse a warehouse floor puts on steel. Our quality control staff inspects every item before it ships, checking weld integrity and finish consistency rather than relying on a single spot check at the end of the line. That is how we back the durability claims we make about our equipment: by inspecting for them, not assuming them.
Working In Canada for Canada
We manufacture from a 40,000 square foot facility in Surrey and supply warehouse equipment to authorized distributors and retailers across Western Canada. Building here, rather than importing and relabelling equipment built elsewhere, means shorter supply lines for the distributors who carry our products and a manufacturing process we can inspect ourselves rather than take on faith. Our team follows clean manufacturing practices on the production floor, including how we manage powder coating overspray through our reclaim and recycle process, because operating in the same country as the customers who use our equipment means we live with the environmental footprint of how we build it.
Who We Serve
Our equipment is built for warehouses, distribution centres, and industrial operations that need material handling equipment to hold up under continuous use rather than occasional light duty. That includes hand trucks and platform trucks for daily staging and receiving, steel utility carts and stocking carts for repetitive floor-to-shelf moves, rolling ladders for order pickers reaching upper storage, and storage mezzanines for operations that need to add capacity without adding square footage. For operations with a requirement our standard line does not cover, from custom cabinets and containers to safety guards and stacking racks, our custom manufacturing team works from your specification rather than asking you to adapt to ours.