Metransport operates primarily in Phoenix, Arizona USA and designs and manufactures all electric industrial vehicles, accessories and custom trailers with full manufacturing capability, in house. Virtually, all equipment is equipped with 4-wheel steering, a dedicated removable pull handle, and is designed to safely operate through any 32” wide Pedestrian doorway.
Easy Engineering: What are the main areas of activity of the company?
Metransport: We serve multiple industries, exclusively on a business-to-business basis in the industrial electric vehicle, accessory, and cart/trailer space. We are about efficiency, problem solving, and ROI by out of the box design and fabrication.
E.E: What’s the news about new products?
Metransport: Our company is constantly innovating and building tailored solutions for transportation and burden carrying opportunities. Unique in the marketplace, Metransport makes available to any potential customer on a complementary basis, inhouse engineering and design services that takes customers’ ideas and specifications for custom trailers and accessories and designs and quotes the custom application. Examples of recent solutions are where our design team solved a problem for stable hauling of live plants and flowers in areas of tight maneuverability at a major resort horticulture department, provided a secure solution for hauling IT equipment around a hotel and convention center floor by providing a fully enclosed locking, wire mesh, trailer; and provided solutions for servicing data center cabinet and other equipment by designing and building a dedicated workbench trailer, and a labor and injury saving IT cabinet equipment servicing trailer that we call our “Server Lifter”.
E.E: What are the ranges of products?
Metransport: Examples of product range and application, are multi departments in resorts, offices; warehouses; data centers; airports; convention centers; retail malls; school campus; hospitals and care facilities; cruise ships; general maintenance; banquet and food service transport; horticulture; dispatch; security and patrol; paramedic and medical first responder.
E.E: At what stage is the market where you are currently active?
Metransport: Metransport serves traditional electric industrial vehicle markets, and offers unlimited solutions to opportunities proposed by our customers. In a sense, the electric industrial vehicle market is mature but with opportunities for cost effective and profitable solutions to existing and new problems.
E.E: What can you tell us about market trends?
Metransport: In our view, the legacy electric industrial vehicle market is ripe for updates, and increases in the scope of their application. We see market demand as not satisfied, and with significant room for growth as to solutions that provide solutions and ROI.
E.E: What are the most innovative products marketed?
Metransport: Metransport leads with innovative, efficient, cost-effective solutions, that provide operator, and environmental safety, cutting edge design for applications which are ever changing. Examples of product innovation are:
A patented, self-contained lifting deck cart/trailer which has the capability to haul heavy (1000 lbs.) kitchen equipment, including loaded warming ovens, over great distances in banquet or other food service settings, safely, easily and high maneuverability. The design allows the item of equipment to be wheeled onto a ground level lifting deck, then easily lifted off the ground for transport, while protecting the stability of the load.
A dedicated cart/trailer equipped with a fire encapsulating agent tank, mixing valve, standpipe connection, hose and nozzle of a scale that permits PRE-first Responder access and maneuverability to quickly control potential electric vehicle battery and gasoline fires at charging stations, both within and outside parking garages. The ability to quickly address confined space fires and control a vehicle fire before first responders arrive dramatically effects the level of risk of a vehicle fire spreading, and mitigates liability for the facility owner
E.E: What estimations do you have for 2023?
Metransport: As to forecasts, Metransport continues to see a significant ramp up of sales, design and fabrication activity in several industries through word of mouth and potential customers seeing our equipment in use. A principal attribute which has caused enquiry is the scale and maneuverability of all of our Products. We are finding that having the ability to safely and cost effectively solve problems at a scale never before available, is a concept whose time has come.
