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About Us

Who We Are

 

Oram Material Handling Systems, Inc., headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas is a privately held distributor of material handling products and services in the Western half of Missouri and Eastern Kansas. The company's present iteration was founded by Philip S. Oram in 1971, and now has in excess of $21 million in revenues. Oram employs over 100 people based in 7 cities, supported by 4 locations to serve more than 1600 customers in such diversified industries as construction, distribution, manufacturing, agriculture, transportation and warehousing.

 

Our Mission

Our Mission is to be the equipment distributor of choice for our customers, employees and stakeholders by consistently performing beyond their expectations.

We pledge to accomplish the above by relentlessly:

  • Practicing ethical business standards
  • Providing exceptional value
  • Delivering customer support services designed to produce a high sense of customer satisfaction
  • Inspiring high employee productivity and morale
  • Earning a high return on assets

History

Oram Wagon Works circa 1878

In the 1870's Oram Wagon Works was one of the leading builders of wagons, carriages and buggies in the Midwest. Although great uncle Harry Oram's main competitor was the Studebaker brothers, the two companies often partnered together to fill large wagon orders for the U.S. Army. An original Oram grain wagon is on display today in the equipment showroom at Oram's corporate headquarters in Kansas City.

The company became one of the early dealers for Datsun Forklifts (now NISSAN FORKLIFTS) and expanded to become one of the oldest and largest NISSAN FORKLIFT dealers in North America. During the past 29 years, on 10 separate occasions, Oram has been the recipient of the prestigious Nissan Nine Dealer of Excellence Award, recognizing the top nine dealers who have achieved the highest standards of excellence.

As the company's capabilities and customer base expanded, Oram added new brands of lift trucks to its fleet. The Linde lift truck in 2005 and the Jungheinrich and Heli lift trucks on 2007. In addition to new lift trucks, new services were developed such as our Storage Systems Design, Advantage Long Term Rental Program and our On Line Catalog for more convenient internet acquisition of Storage & Handling Products, all with the goal of becoming a one stop, full service resource for our customers.


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