About R & D Ergo

Ergonomic Material Handling Solutions As a business owner your concern about providing a safe and stress-free working environment is our primary concern. Your need for better results through increased productivity and enhanced efficiency is our driving force. It is the reason behind our continuous striving towards ergonomic excellence in the work place. As you aim to achieve enhanced profitability, we at R&D Ergo engage ourselves in solving your work place safety problems.

Research and statistics on work place injuries, accidents and stress related disorders are now easily available and increasingly publicized. The flip side of this for you is mounting concern over the ergonomics of work environments, particularly in relation to material handling, lifting and stacking, packing and other repetitive physical tasks. R & D Ergo offers you quality ergonomic equipment solutions for material handling, lifting, stacking, rotating and packing in any capacity light, medium or heavy and custom equipment tailored to your specific requirements.

Over the last 25 years, we have served the work place safety needs of various industry verticals from automotive to aviation, cable, fiber/textile, food and beverage, dairy, glass, metals and paper. Some of our satisfied clients are:

Toyota
Magna
Electromotive
Parmalat
Weston Bakery
Canada Bread
Pfizer

Get in touch for more information on material handling equipment that will increase safety and add to your productivity.

As members of the Material Handling Association, and the Packaging Association of Canada, we have gained a distinct leadership position and are known in the industry as work place safety problem solvers. Tell us how we can help you. Our strong alliances and partnerships will bring added value to the delivery of your ergonomic work solutions.

We opened our doors as Ergo Assist in 1995, to employers like you who believe in implementing workplace safety to avoid injury. Having started with Richard Lapointe as the founder, the company changed its name to R & D Ergo when David Gurr joined us in 1999. Expansion in 2004 came with the addition of an office and warehouse in Quebec. The combined experience of our senior management team spans close to 70 years, not to mention the skilled and trained expertise of our design engineers, sales staff, site auditors, safety inspectors and ergonomic specialists.

Make R & D Ergo your partner of choice. A few good reasons why:

A known leader in work place safety solutions: A wide variety of products and applications to solve your work place safety needs.
A head start on what’s new: Learn about new types of equipment and how you can increase productivity by decreasing stress in your work place. Get in touch for more information and subscribe to Ergo Tips and News.
A lifelong commitment: We are with you all the way! We take your order, deliver and install your machines, commission the system and are available to help you with any handling issues you might have after set-up.
Experienced staff to install and to train your personnel: Our highly trained staff will help you make the right choice from a variety of ergonomic material handling solutions to best suit your needs. Our delivery and installation doesn’t stop at helping you with set-up. Thorough after-sales service and training is provided to your equipment operators until they are entirely comfortable with the use, operation and maintenance of the system we provide.
Site audits and customized solutions: It is likely you may have often faced a dilemma of how best to decide on the equipment required for your work place. The last thing you want is to order equipment from us and find it does not suit your purpose. To help avoid situations like that, we take the critical first step of visiting your site. We analyze and assess your requirements, suggest the best equipment to deliver your safety needs and even customize solutions to suit your individual applications.
Guaranteed satisfaction, service anywhere in Canada: The establishment of a safe work environment for your business is our priority and we are committed to your satisfaction. Business referrals from satisfied customers, repeat business from companies we have long served and our steadfast position at the forefront of this industry are the measures of our success. Wherever you are in Canada, whichever industry you are a part of and however complex your requirement, R&D Ergo has a solution available at your doorstep.

Call us for more information on material handling, in line process handling and operator assist equipment that we can set up to make your facility a stress free and injury proof environment.