HISTORY - HOW IT ALL BEGAN

During the 1980’s James Corbett owned and operated two large marble & granite processing companies in Australia, employing 80 workers, During the course of operating these businesses James Corbett developed a lifting clamp for lifting marble and granite, which he was able to patent in early 1995.

In 2002, James Corbett established business in Vietnam in his own right to manufacture and produce his invented Slab Lifting Clamps. Although the Aardwolf Slab Lifting Clamps have been the back bone of James’s business, his company now produces a wide range of material handling and lifting equipment.

THE HISTORY OF THE AARDWOLF LIFTERS

The Aardwolf Lifter was invented and developed by James Edmud Corbett, in 1989 to solve problems and his own stone working business. The lifter was trialled for a few year's business and gradually imorived. Photo shows an early prototyoe from this period

A production prototype lifter at about the time James filed his patent application in March 1995. This design was sold by the company Herdgraph Pty. Ltd. a company solely owned by James Corbett.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5893595A/en

The lifter was further improved in late 1995. Shown here lifting a 50 mm thick slab of sandstone weighing about 500 kg.

A full range of lifters were futher developed in 2002 and sold worldwide under the trademark Aardwolf.

The present range of James Corbett’s lifters

James Corbett - Director
Ngo Tuan Tai - Vice Director

Aardwolf Industry has continuously improved its products throughout its history to ensure users achieve three core goal of Quality, Efficiency and Safety. This is the reason why the Aardwolf brand is always at the forefront of the material handling industry worldwide.

Aardwolf America operates a large distribution warehouse in Los Angles that stocks Aardwolf products for retail businesses through North America.

Aardwolf appreciates its hard working and dedicated workers in Vietnam and is now in the process of building a large, modern factory in Vietnam so that it can continue to supply the North American market with high quality, efficient material handling equipment.