Caldwell Group has welcomed two manufacturing representative firms to its team, Hardu and Mocker & Associates.

Jim Harkins, owner of Hardu

Hardu and its owner, Jim Harkins, have strong backgrounds in the lifting industry, Harkins having worked as a product advisor for I&I Slingmax for 24 years. Prior to that, he spent a decade as a service manager at Northeastern Crane & Hoist. He is based in Milford, Massachusetts, USA. 

Mocker & Associates, founded in 1974, is based in Chesterfield, Missouri, and will be a manufacturer’s representative for Caldwell and a variety of other manufacturing companies covering Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Arkansas.

Based in Rockford, Illinois, Caldwell provides a full offering of below-the-hook lifting equipment including lifting beams, sheet lifters, coil grabs, beam grabs, Renfroe lifting clamps, and RUD lifting points. Specialty equipment for mill duty use, vacuum lifters, load rotators, fork truck attachments and more are also available.