Pentalift designs, engineers, and manufactures material handling equipment – loading dock equipment and scissor lift tables, both custom and standard.

Pentalift Equipment Corporation designs, engineers, and manufactures material handling equipment - loading dock equipment and scissor lift tables.

Scissor Lifts - All About Scissor Lift Tables
Often referred to as Scissor Lifts, Platform Lifts, or Lift Tables, regardless of the name, it all comes down to a very simple concept. Raising or lowering a platform.
All designs of Scissor Lifts have 3 primary components, the platform, the scissor legs and the lower frame assembly.
Scissor Lifts are available in 3 operating methods. Hydraulic Scissor Lifts use one or more hydraulic cylinders to move the platform up or down. Pneumatic Scissor Lifts operate through the use of air bags to move the platform up or down. A Self Positioning Scissor Lift is weight sensitive, as weight is added to the platform it automatically lowers, as weight is removed from the platform it automatically raises.
A Double Scissor Lift is built “stacking” 2 sets of scissor legs one on top of the other, Triple Scissor Lift 3 sets of scissor legs on top of each other etc. Using this design, multiple Stage Scissor Lifts will raise to greater heights.
Scissor Lifts are available in a wide range of lifting capacities. Pentalift manufactures Scissor Lifts in load lifting capacities of 500 lbs. right up to 120,000 lbs.
Scissor Lifts have been in use for many years, the concept is simple, reliable and used in literally thousands of applications worldwide. Please contact us a lift@pentalift.com to discuss a Scissor Lift best suited to your requirements.