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Hardware brands tend to be a bit insular with their wares. It’s a competitive market after all, and if one brand can make you buy its products exclusively over all others, that’s to its advantage. That said, different brands may occasionally collaborate on a temporary basis, usually to provide a particular service or product that they may not be able to offer individually.
An example of this is the DeWalt GRABO Lifter, a material handling tool designed to adhere to flat surfaces with powerful suction and a thick handle. If you didn’t know, you could easily assume that “GRABO” is just a cute name that DeWalt decided to assign to this interesting gadget. In reality, however, GRABO is an entirely different brand of hardware products, specifically one that specializes in power tools for handling vacuum suction equipment. GRABO produces and sells its own material handling machines independently of DeWalt, but the DeWalt GRABO Lifter in particular was actually a joint effort between both companies.
The lifter is a collaborative product between DeWalt and GRABO
According to GRABO websitethe DeWalt GRABO Suction Lifter is the result of a business partnership between GRABO itself and DeWalt’s parent company, Stanley Black & Decker. Apparently, Stanley Black & Decker contacted the GRABO brand after the commercial introduction of its suction lifters and proposed a partnership, merging GRABO’s technology with the established pedigree of the DeWalt brand.
Instead of in one of DeWalt’s factories, the resulting line of DeWalt GRABO Lifters were assembled in a factory associated with GRABO, but with the addition of DeWalt’s QA standards. All components of the tools are tested to ensure they meet DeWalt standards, and the final tools are also subjected to a series of stress tests before they actually leave the factory.
GRABO has not disclosed the precise location of the factory where all assembly testing takes place. However, the GRABO website does host a series of videos showing the product’s assembly line, as well as stress testing, which includes walking heavy materials down a street, carrying maximum loads, enduring large amounts of dust, and determining the overall lifespan of the tool’s various connectors. DeWalt’s online page because the GRABO Lifter offers no further insight into the tool’s creation process, only its general capabilities.
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