A Great Force for Crane and Hoist Solutions
In June 2023, Interface announced our acquisition of UK-based LCM Systems, broadening our international reach, significantly improving our capacity, and adding critical expertise to Interface for specialized measurement solutions designed for cranes and hoist equipment.
Interface and LCM offer our customers robust and diverse measurement devices for hoisting, winching, lifting, subsea, infrastructure, and industrial manufacturing applications.
The LCM-made products in Interface’s 35,000-plus catalog include Load Pins, Tension Links, and Shackles. This includes options for standard products, engineered-to-order, completely custom, ATEX, submersibles, and wireless solutions.
Sample of Interface Load Pins, Tension Links, and Shackles
ILMP Stainless Steel Load Monitoring Load Pin
WTSLP Wireless Stainless Steel Load Pin
WTSTL Wireless Tension Link Load Cell
WTSATL Lightweight Aluminum Wireless Tension Link
WTSATL-JR Aluminum Compact Wireless Tension Link
ISHK-B Bow Type Crosby™ Cabled Load Shackle
ISHK-D ‘D’ Type Crosby™ Cabled Load Shackle
WTSSHK-B Wireless Crosby™ Bow Load Shackle
WTSSHK-B-HL Wireless Bow Load Shackle
WTSSHK-B-JR Wireless Crosby™ Bow Load Shackle
WTSSHK-D Wireless Crosby™ Load Shackle
TIP: Use the Interface Load Pin Configuration Submission to get started in defining your exact pin requirements.
Recently, Ken Bishop, Interace’s senior director of custom solutions, had the opportunity to discuss our acquisition of LCM Systems with Overhead Crane and Hoist (OCH) magazine, specifically focusing on our industry-leading lineup of solutions for this industry courtesy of our expert team at LCM. Included below is a brief preview of the article. To read it thoroughly, please visit OCH’s digital magazine Interface Reveals Motivation Behind Acquisition of Long-Time Partner LCM Systems – Hoist Magazine’s Overhead Crane and Hoist Winter 2023.
Highlights from the article in Overhead and Hoist Feature Article
In a move that should provide synergistic growth opportunities for both companies, Interface Inc., a US-based leader in force measurement product technology, design, and manufacturing, has recently acquired UK-based LCM Systems – a company it had already partnered with for the past ten years. In fact, Interface has been LCM’s exclusive distributor in the US market since 2018.
“Interface is a very diverse,” Ken Bishop, Interface’s senior director of custom solutions, declared, noting that it has a very strong reputation for producing high-quality load cells, load pins, load shackles, torque transducers, multi-axis sensors, and related measurement solutions for a variety of market sectors including aerospace, automotive, energy, factory automation, and subsea marine. “Given our ability to make high-precision products that our customers can count on, we have been able to grow our business over the years.”
Bishop said it was when certain new customer requirements emerged, for which Interface didn’t have other options to meet, that it decided to reach out to LCM: “At first, such opportunities came up now and then, but over time, we started to do more business with them as it became more and more apparent that there was a nice fit between the products and services that LCM offers and those offered by Interface.”
LCM was founded in 1984 to provide the yachting industry with precision load cell and readout systems but has expanded to also provide those products, as well as engineering and design services, to such other market sectors as energy, civil engineering, maritime, aerospace, heavy lifting and process engineering, including load cell products suitable for Zone 1 and 2 hazardous area applications…read more.
Load pin, Tension link, and Load Shackle App Note Catalog
