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Rite-Hite is an American company that manufactures loading dock equipment, industrial doors, safety barriers, industrial fans and other in-plant products. It is considered a world leader in the development, manufacture, and sale of loading dock safety systems and industrial door solutions. Rite-Hite is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Overview
right|Rite-Hite Headquarters in Milwaukee, designed by Mayer Helminiak Architects

Rite-Hite was founded in 1965 by Arthur K. White, the father of Rite-Hite’s current owner and chairman, Michael White. The company has about 200 employees in the Milwaukee area and about 1,500 in its 100 locations world-wide. These include manufacturing facilities in Wisconsin, Iowa, Mississippi, Colorado, Michigan and Ontario and manufacturing plants in Kunshan, China, Volkmarsen, Germany; and Jawor, Poland.

Products
Rite-Hite’s best known products are dock leveling systems, trailer restraints, high-speed doors and high-volume low-speed fans.

The Safe-T-Lip® hydraulic, mechanical and air-powered leveling systems function as a movable bridge from dock doors to flatbeds or semi trailers. The Dok-Lok® trailer restraints and Wheel-Lok™ wheel restraints secure tractor trailers to loading docks to prevent accidents by trailer separation. The FasTrax® high-speed power doors are used in warehouses and manufacturing and retail outlets where they open automatically for fork truck traffic. The industrial high-volume low-speed fans are able to ventilate manufacturing and warehousing facilities and other large spaces.

Rite-Hite's product line also includes light communication systems, truck levelers, Frommelt dock seals and shelters, cooler/freezer doors, traffic/impact doors and safety barrier systems.

Subsidiaries
Rite-Hite subsidiary companies include Frommelt Safety Products, DuctSox Corporation, Zoneworks, Caljan Rite-Hite, Arbon Equipment Corporation, Zoneworks, and others. Most subsidiaries manufacture different kinds of loading solutions, air dispersion systems, and modular walls and curtains for the environmental separation, machine guarding and area protection purposes.

Recognition
Rite-Hite is a recipient of the 2002 and 2008 Wisconsin Governor's Export Achievement Awards. In 2010 it received an Industrial Maintenance and Plant Operations Magazine's IMPOvation award for the Acoustic Curtain Walls produced by its subsidiary Zoneworks. It has also received several Plant Engineering magazine's awards, most recently in 2009 the Gold award in the Construction, Buildings and Grounds category and the Grand award in 2010.