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Dover Corporation, among their numerous holdings, owns Rotary Lifts. Rotary, until a few years ago, manufactured only US made commerical lifts. Rotary wanted in on the lucritive home lift market and designed and started making the Rotary Revolution in their Madison, IN manufacturing facility. They had the Revolution model independently ALI certified. The only other home lift that is ALI certified is the Bend Pack 8. Bend Pack manufactures their commerical lifts in the US but has moved the Bend Pack 8 production to China.

The Revolution is the 5th lift I've owned. I considered buying a Direct Lift but when one of the Direct Lift importers refused to answer my technical questions and told me he wouldn't sell me a lift because of the questions I was asking, I scratched them off my list. Direct Lifts are manufactured by Hanmecson in China. Hanmecson is the largest manufacturer of lifts in China. The scissors lift in my picture is a Hanmecson.

I ended up buying the Revolution as part of a group buy on another forum. We got a good deal on them otherwise I would have gone with a different brand.

In August of this year, Rotary bought Hanmecson. Hanmecson operates as a seperate company manufacturing lifts in China.