Conveyor Handling Company has been a leader in providing quality, cost-effective material handling solutions since 1975. Located in Elkridge on the southwest side of Baltimore, Maryland, with offices in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, the company has successfully partnered with customers offering them custom solutions for their unique material handling challenges. Conveyor Handling Company has developed and maintained relationships with private and public companies nationwide, as well as US and State government agencies. Furthermore, we have been recognized repeatedly by major manufacturers and integrators as a top performing solutions provider.
When you choose Conveyor Handling Company as your Material Handling Systems Integrator, you partner with our highly skilled in-house team of professionals through every phase of your project. From design to after commissioning service, our in-house team of sales, engineers, project managers, installation crews and service technicians determine the solution that best fits your needs. Customer satisfaction will always remain our top priority. From purchasing equipment to a full turnkey solution, Conveyor Handling Company will provide a worry-free process; increasing productivity and profit by improving material handling efficiency.
Every project is managed by our in-house team with:
innovation and creativity
extensive industry knowledge
value and integrity
Team
Jean Rittermann
President
As President and Owner since 1985, Jean provides visionary and strategic leadership within the company. She oversees the company’s operations to insure efficiency, quality, service and cost effective management of resources. Jean sets the overall direction of the company to help promote revenue, profitability, and growth; and is focused on planning, developing, and implementing strategies to attain company objectives.
Rich Rittermann
Vice President of Operations
Richard, Owner and Vice President of Operations, joined Conveyor Handling Company in 1976 with a strong mechanical and electrical background. During his 40+ years at Conveyor Handling Company, he has remained an integral member and has been instrumental in the continued development and growth of the company through sales and management of the 50+ employees.
Doug Rittermann
Vice President / Director of Sales
As Director of Sales, Doug provides guidance and support to the sales team. He began his sales career in 1999, and is the third generation to be a part of CHC. His experience with the company began at a very early age. Over the years he has seen the many different challenges our customers face in their operations. Doug’s many years of involvement has helped him to understand how we can best serve our customers’ needs. He is committed to making sure Conveyor Handling Company is always doing whatever it takes to help our customers at the highest possible level.
Jeff Grim
Director of Operations
As Director of Operations, Jeff oversees the Engineering, Controls, Project Management, Quoting, and Installation Departments. Jeff manages every step of a project from concept to completion, making sure each part is completed thoroughly and efficiently. With over 25 years of experience with CHC, Jeff has a thorough knowledge of the mechanical, electrical, and controls portions as well as an understanding of application and design. His experience includes five years of mechanical installation, eight years as a Foreman, and twelve years in Project Management. Jeff is an integral part of a professional and effective team that strives to make every project a successful one for our customers.
George Foy
Director of Service Operations
With over 35 years of experience in the service arena, George prides himself in his communication with the customer from start to finish, providing real time solutions and same day service with cost effective pricing. He manages a staff of over 15 mechanics, dedicated to providing emergency service and preventative maintenance to customers. George was very instrumental in the expansion of the service department in Souderton, Pennsylvania in 2010.
Gus Schiefelbein
Installation Manager
Before joining CHC, Gus worked four years for a conveyor company as a machinist and fabricator. In 2001, he joined CHC as an installer. Throughout his tenure with the company, he has risen from on-site Forman to Installation Manager, overseeing 10+ conveyor mechanics, where his responsibilities include scheduling crews, training technicians, coordinating material, and monitoring the progress of the daily installations, as well as, estimating labor necessary for future projects.
Don Hueg
New Business Development
Don brings over 15 years of experience in Material Handling Equipment Sales and Marketing. His expertise has led Conveyor Handling to project opportunities with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies throughout the country.
Testimonials
As a 3rd party logistics company, we were referred to CHC with what we felt was 'an impossible task to pull off' entering the busiest time of year. CHC pulled together a complete layout, design and installation of a full conveyor system in our Kansas City, MO location in a short period of time. Rich along with a CHC team of engineers walked us through the entire process seamlessly, not only meeting our timeline, but completing the project 8 days ahead of schedule. They listened to our needs and exceeded far beyond our expectations with a quality product, and made our operation more efficient by increasing daily production by 35%. We need integrators like CHC and look forward to working with them again in the near future.
Joe Dabbs, Vice President of Sales, UNIS Fulfillment
When it comes to our equipment needs for our conveyor system, Conveyor Handling Company (CHC) has the parts I need, when I need them.
Brad Williams, Maintenance Supervisor
CHC has been my go-to company for any conveying needs I have when integrating our packaging equipment. Representing multiple manufacturers, they have provided the right solution for conveyors, racking, and many other material handling equipment.
Jeff Friedman, Packaging Equipment Specialist
The Food Bank of Delaware partnered with Conveyor Handling Company in 2019 for our gondola shelving needs in our Healthy Pantry Center and couldn’t be happier with the results. From layout design to installation, our Sales Engineer, Seth Moore provided exceptional customer service. We also utilized CHC for our cold storage racking needs as well as the repair of our dry warehouse racks and received first class service on both.
Trevor Turner, Chief Operations Officer
Working with CHC, Bizerba Engineered Solutions (BES) has been able to provide product handling solutions to our customers that integrate and complement our standard product line. CHC does not shy away from difficult product handling applications, offering us unique viewpoints on how to solve a problem with the best solution (s) possible. Rich Rittermann and his team have been a pleasure to work with. We highly recommend CHC for their product handling knowledge and expertise and will continue to use them in the future.
Jeffrey Roberts, Director of Customer Solutions Center NA
We reached out to Conveyor Handling Company to provide a racking system to streamline the handling of our product in the warehouse. From the start of this project through its completion, CHC’s Sales Engineer, Tom, and team were extremely helpful and informative, providing multiple options for our material handling needs. After our final decision was made, the process itself, from ordering the equipment to installation, was seamless. Furthermore, the follow up and customer service was superior. When any future material handling needs arise, we’ll contact CHC first.
Bob Hinnant, President/Owner
Conveyor Handling Company (CHC) has always provided UNFI with good and prompt service. They offer cost effective product parts that arrive on-site fast. Their knowledgeable sales staff and prices make CHC an easy choice for all of our spare parts needs.
Joel Hoffmaster, Maintenance Supervisor
We have been utilizing CHC as our partner for conveying and material handling needs for over 30 years, providing hundreds of successful packaging and conveying projects to our customers nationwide. With their assistance and expertise in material handling products and services, we have been able to offer complete turnkey solutions to our customers. Their friendly and knowledgeable team is always ready and willing to assist us and have always completed projects quickly and efficiently. I highly recommend CHC for their ability to understand any customer needs and be able to provide them with a quality solution.
J Zeman, President/CEO
We have had a great relationship with CHC since 2010. Over the years, CHC has provided us with full turnkey system solutions to include conveyors, high speed sortation, mezzanines, racking, controls, and scanning systems. We have been able to trust and rely on CHC’s product and services for our material handling needs. The people are very knowledgeable and dedicated to superior customer service. We strongly recommend CHC for any material handling solutions and look forward to our mutual continued successes.
Stacey Parham, Maintenance Manager
CHC has consistently provided high value, excellent quality conveyors, racks and material handling equipment for our distribution and fulfillment operations in multiple New Jersey facilities. CHC has become our only choice for conveyor systems, sorters, material handling equipment and integration. They have a highly skilled team that responds with practical solutions and reliable equipment. And they stand behind all of their work with outstanding after-sale service!
John Roca, President
Rodman’s has used Conveyor Handling Company (CHC) for over 20 years for our service and preventative maintenance. Working with CHC couldn’t be easier. Their technicians have always been professional and respectful; and able to evaluate any problem promptly, determine the solution, and get us back up and running with minimum down time. We look forward to our continued business relationship with CHC for many years to come.
Roy Rodman, President/CEO
CHC, committing to a very tight timeline, installed a 300-foot Hytrol 431 sorter in our Swedesboro Logistics Center. The project finished in three days—12 hours ahead of schedule. CHC set the tone in the planning phase, when we established the replacement installation timeline that covered mechanical installation, electrical installation, changeover and items needed from Tech Data. This phased approach and attention to detail facilitated success. The project was 100% successful and exceeded my expectations. The efficiency and professionalism of the CHC team was above reproach. I would recommend CHC to any organization looking for conveyor installation.
Cody Tinsley, Director of Logistics
Our first project with Conveyor Handling Company to modify conveyor was initially discussed at length a mere two weeks prior to completion. Any potential issues with the job would have impacted 90% of our pick lines, and any potential delays would have halted construction of a new pick module. Despite the pressure, the execution was near flawless, with better than expected results. Thank you for your commitment to excellence, not only in performing the physical task but ensuring satisfaction, operational functionality and support.
Lucus Reichardt, Maintenance Manager
We were looking for a systems integrator who could design a system that would assist us with receiving and sorting product. With the help and guidance of Conveyor Handling Company, we placed Hytrol conveyors in our facility, which provided a more defined flow of product and resulted in an increase in productivity. With this being my first opportunity to work with CHC, I was very pleased with CHC and the level of professionalism provided by Tom, our Sales Engineer. We are also very satisfied with the system results.
CHC is truly a professional operation. Our Sales Engineer, Tom, went above and beyond the call of normal duties. From inception to completion, Tom made sure everything went smoothly and no detail was missed. I could not have been happier with CHC or Tom as our Project Manager/Sales Engineer.
Ed Baldoni, President/Owner
A.B.C. began research to replace our bar code scan tunnel. We decided to go with an imaging tunnel in order to facilitate better analysis of our no reads and mislabeled cases. The biggest challenge was that installation had to take place overnight and then go live the next business day. The installation had a few hurdles; however, Michael Collins, CHC’s Director of Controls & Engineering, impressed me beyond measure. He demonstrated a thorough knowledge and experience with both the vision system and my controls system and installed and configured the adapter to interface the tunnel output to my older Profibus network. From the beginning, CHC told me they were in this for the long haul…and they were! We were up and running the next business day. I have dealt with a lot of vendors over the years, most of whom did not put in the genuine effort as demonstrated by CHC. Some vendors never do make things exactly as promised. I’m thankful that CHC isn’t one of them.
Timothy Cross, Automation System Specialist/Production Planner
“We created a very good and trusting relationship with Conveyor Handling Company. Due to our relationship with Conveyor Handling Company and based on their recommendation, that was the plan we ultimately chose. Similar to the way we do business, we look for a relationship that we can trust, and we found that during the bidding process. We built an open dialogue and a trusting relationship with Conveyor Handling Company. Their proximity helped during the planning and implementation stages of the project."
Nick Pendrous, Chief Information Officer
The representatives from Conveyor Handling have not only sold us new conveyor equipment at very competitive pricing, but have engineered the equipment to our project specifications.
Jim Biedenback, Plant Manager, Baltimore Division
From Raw Materials and Packaging Warehousing, to miscellaneous material staging throughout the plant, the impact of your recommendations, vending support, and product expertise on Brembo’s organization and efficiency of operations is obvious and well recognized. Your collaborative efforts went a long way in making Brembo’s rapid growth and expansion of its Homer Disc operations a great success!
Scot G. Schira, Contract Industrial Engineer
In the last decade, DTLR has experienced dramatic growth in the national retail market and CONVEYOR HANDLING COMPANY has been an important partner in that growth. They have responded to our supply chain challenges and objectives with comprehensive consultations, designs, implementations and maintenance. The CHC Team continues to provide professional analysis and design insight for our future growth and remain a key partner in our business success.
Tom Thompson, General Manager, Distribution Center
We have been working with Conveyor Handling for over 15 years. They are always willing to go the extra mile for us, their customer. The knowledge that their service technicians have of all material handling equipment is impressive to say the least. We will enjoy a continued relationship with this company in the years to come.
Joseph Volpatti, President
During our recent move into a new warehouse, Conveyor Handling was with us every step of the way. Their valuable input ranged from design and installation to providing the expertise needed to make every decision about the layout and products required to improve efficiencies. The delivery and installation of the new racks and conveyor went smoothly, and the startup of our new conveyor was handled professionally and on time by their team. The outcome has exceeded expectation; we are more efficient than ever and are better able to meet the needs of our customers. Conveyor Handling was the right choice for CPS - expert advice, professional layout and on time delivery allowed us to move into a new facility and immediately reap the benefits of optimized layout and equipment.
Ron Merkel, Director of Industrial Business
Harbor has worked with Conveyor Handling for over 25 years. With the help of the professionals at CHC, we have been able to grow the success of company, but more importantly, we have been able to grow the success of our customers. We rely on the team at CHC for professional design and handling expertise from the initial scope meeting all the way to project completion. At CHC it's all about the team of professionals that help us design, specify and install the best handling systems.
Duncan Covington, President and CEO
Conveyor Handling Company, Inc. is a valued-added long-term vendor partner and trusted-advisor in providing material handling and logistics support to CapitalTristate Electrical Distributor. Whether it be the development or improvement of material-handling or logistics processes at our Central Distribution Center or branch design and material-handling implementation, CapitalTristate does not start a project without their involvement. Over the years we have worked together, the advice and support received has saved CapitalTristate both time and money, and added to our company’s long-term productivity. We recommend Conveyor Handling Company, Inc. without reservation.
Tim McGowan, VP Corporate Development
Conveyor Handling Company was there for us every step of the way when we decided to replace our 15 year old sawtooth merge with Motor Drive Roller conveyor. Conveyor Handling gave us several viable options to choose from; everything was well planned out in advance, and they were able to complete the change in a weekend so that we didn't have to miss a single minute of scheduled production time.
Bill Przytulski, VP Operations
CHC has become a partner in helping us manage and maintain our equipment needs. The CHC group is responsive, reliable, and seems to look out for our best interests. As we move into the future we look to build our partnership and use CHC resources to build a strategic business relationship.
Brad Nucci, VP Operations
I have been fortunate enough to have worked with Conveyor Handling Company and Rich Rittermann since 1997. I have worked on projects with Rich & his team in Washington DC, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida & Virginia. Rich & his team have always been on time, on budget and a pleasure to work with! There is no project large or small that I would not entrust to CHC and Rich!