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We, at Summit Lifts, bring 75 years of accessibility lift
experience into our manufacturing, service, and design.
Our goal is simply to provide you with the highest quality lift
available.
To that end, we began a two-year project to design a stairway lift
that would be without equal in terms of safety, reliability,
maintenance, comfort and flexibility. A lift we could build in our own
facility from scratch – reminiscent of days when things were done the
right way. No shortcuts. No cheap substitutions.
The result: a lift that has the longest standard warranty in the
industry and the only lift requiring no maintenance for the duration
of its warranty. A lift so durable that it has a warranty unmatched in
today’s market.
A lift made in America the traditional way.
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Beginnings…
When Mark Hill started painting for a small company that made
stairway lifts in 1972, he was looking for a place that rewarded hard
work and determination – a place where people cared about the quality
of their work – where you were more than just a number. He worked at
such a place for 20+ years learning every aspect of assembly,
production, and quality. He was continually promoted through the
blue-collar ranks to a Supervisor, where he oversaw production of
accessibility equipment for several years.
In 1981, Mike Vogt began working for that same small stairway
lift company as a draftsman. He had been looking for a good job in
order to get married to his high school sweetheart and live out the
American Dream. His 10 years of designing lifts were followed by 9
more years of running the company’s Service “Complaint” Department and
retail sales division.
Mark Jackson began his career at 19 as an apprentice in a local
blow-mold business and worked his way to becoming a CNC Machinist and
Tool Maker. During his twenty years with the same company, he learned
2D and 3D CAD software and machine programming to create precision
parts. Mark spends his free time with his family and keeping up with
the responsibilities of a homeowner. Mark, his wife of 17 years, and 3
children are active in their church. His dream for Summit Lifts is to
provide a reliable and affordable lift for persons with difficulty
with stairs.
They each have several children – are still married to their first
wives – understand words like commitment, loyalty, integrity – and had
an undying loyalty to their company. Each of them had planned on
retiring from their jobs after 40 years of service and discussed this
among themselves due to their friendship with one another – but in
today’s world of corporate buyouts and mergers, they were not allowed
to fulfill this dream.
When this happened, they discussed whether a company could be run like
those from days gone by – where faith in God and family was more
important than the bottom line – where hard work was rewarded – where
the word quality was something more than empty rhetoric. It is out of
this background that Summit Lifts, Inc. was started.
Three men- looking to make a product that helped others, running a
company where shortcuts are not an option, and believing that the
words “Made in America” still mean something. |
