About Us
The Wolter Group LLC brand was formed in 2011 as a means to unify our family of companies rich history under one umbrella, allowing our collective strength to be easily recognizable. This name comes from the Wolter family who founded Wisconsin Lift Truck, a prominent member of the Wolter Group, in 1962.
From the beginning, our mission has been to enable customers’ success through value added solutions, supported by superior service and quality products, professionally delivered with a sense of urgency. That same mission still stands today, more than five decades later.
The Wolter Group consists of material handling, engineered systems, automation, storage & handling, filing, fleet management, equipment leasing, and power systems sectors. The Wolter Group serves over 15,000 industrial, construction and commercial customers in Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and Illinois. Employing 350 associates including more than 160 technicians in its operations with an average length of service of seventeen years, the Wolter Group is a leader in the industries it serves.
Members of Wolter Group LLC
Material Handling:
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Wisconsin Lift Truck is one of the largest, full-service material handling distributors in the Midwest providing sales, service, parts, training, leasing, and rentals of forklifts, aerial lifts, industrial cleaning equipment, mobile rail car movers, and more throughout Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. |
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Illinois Material Handling is a full-service material handling distributor that offers a wide variety of products and services including sales, rentals, leasing, training and repair of forklifts, aerial lifts, industrial cleaning equipment, mobile rail car movers, and more throughout Northern Illinois |
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Fleet Services is a highly-specialized group of material handling professionals, experts in developing the most efficient flow of material through your operations. These fleet service professionals work with you to implement strategies to control and reduce the cost of moving materials throughout your business using fleet studies, material flow studies and equipment asset management systems. |
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Ellis Systems is a premiere distributor of filing, shelving & material storage systems in the Midwest, providing space-saving storage solutions for office and industrial applications. Products and services include; sales, service and installation of high density mobile shelving systems, vertical lifts & carousels, rotary files, storage shelving, color-coded filing, mailroom systems & more. |
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Wolter Investments offers flexible equipment-leasing strategies and solutions to our material handling customers in conjunction with our Fleet Services division. |
Power Systems:
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Wolter Power Systems provides sales, service, parts, rentals and training throughout the state of Wisconsin and is an authorized distributor for new industrial engines, exchange engines, generators, transfer switches, pumps and mobile light towers from leading manufacturers. |
Top Brands. Our vast portfolio of material handling products include: Cat, Jungheinrich, Mitsubishi, Doosan, Linde, Marriotti, Big Joe, Hanel, Vidir and much more. Our power systems business is based on Generac generator solutions as well as Deutz, Yanmar and Perkins industrial engines.
Leadership team. All facets of Wolter Group LLC are led by our founder and CEO Otto Wolter, Jerry Weidmann, President, Jim Dutkiewicz, COO, Steve Kletzien, CFO, and VP of Sales Ross Jeremiah. We continue to strive for excellence in all that we do and work hard to keep your business up and running. To contact members of Wolter Group LLC, please call or email us today!
