Practical Wheel Knowledge

Material choice directly affects floor protection, noise, load performance, and service life.

Polyurethane

• Quiet, non-marking, and floor-friendly.
• Available from 70D to 95A, with capacities reaching approximately 5,000+ lbs depending on size and construction.
• Best for warehouses, retail spaces, hospitals, and smooth industrial floors.
• Very rough surfaces can accelerate wear; prolonged parking under load may cause flat spotting.

Nylon

• Excellent durability, chemical resistance, debris tolerance, and value.
• Ideal for demanding industrial environments, but generally louder and may mark some floors.

Rubber

• Strong shock absorption and grip for uneven or outdoor surfaces.
• Offers lower abrasion resistance and higher rolling resistance than polyurethane or nylon.

Selection Tip: Email us your floor type, load, speed, and operating environment for a recommendation.

We support major North American pallet jack brands and can manufacture from drawings or physical samples.

74 × 93 mm Load Wheel

Interchangeable with many OEM 74 × 98 mm applications, including Crown PTH50, Raymond RJ50/RJ50P, Hyster/Yale W50Z, Big Joe standard manual models (excluding EZ30), Wesco CPI/Deluxe, and Vestil PM5/PM6 wide-fork models.

80 × 70 mm Load Wheel

Commonly used on Vestil PM5/PM6 narrow-fork models.

180 × 50 mm Steer Wheel

A widely used steering-wheel size across manual pallet jack platforms.

Fitment Tip: Send the old wheel or a dimensioned sketch to confirm compatibility before ordering.

Yes. OEM production can match an existing drawing, sample, logo, and packaging specification. ODM service can develop a wheel around target load, floor, speed, temperature, and environmental requirements.

• Custom dimensions, compounds, colors, hubs, bearings, and tread profiles.
• Molded or printed branding and private-label packaging.
• Typical mold development: 15–30 days after drawing approval.

Samples

• Stock items: 7–15 days.
• Custom samples: 15–30 days.

Bulk Production

• Standard products: 15–30 days.
• Custom OEM products: 30–45 days.

Typical Transit

• Ocean freight to the West Coast: 15–20 days.
• Ocean freight to the East Coast: 25–35 days.
• Air freight: 8–10 days.

A 20GP container should be planned around a practical cargo weight of approximately 39,200 lbs (17.78 metric tons), subject to route and carrier limits.

• ISO 9001:2015 quality management system.
• RoHS and REACH compliance for selected products.
• In-house static load, dynamic endurance, impact, hardness, and dimensional inspection.
• Salt-spray testing up to 96 hours and CMM measurement where required.

Certificates and relevant test records can be supplied for qualified projects.

• Standard: individual bags or dividers, export cartons, pallets, stretch wrap, and strapping.
• Premium: EPE foam protection and plywood cases for sensitive or high-value components.
• Retail Ready: branded cartons, labels, logos, and barcodes.

Efficiency Tip: Retail-ready packaging can reduce receiving, labeling, and repacking labor.

Samples are normally charged at production cost plus shipping, and the sample fee can be credited against the first bulk order. Qualified buyers may receive a free standard sample while covering courier cost.

• Stock samples: typically 5–7 days.
• Custom samples: typically 15–30 days.
• DHL, FedEx, or UPS delivery to North America: typically 3–5 days.

Use samples to verify fit, rolling resistance, noise, floor marking, bearing performance, and load behavior.

• Monthly capacity of 400,000+ pieces.
• 1,000+ active molds.
• 15+ engineers supporting CAD and FEA development.
• Raw-material traceability and long-term supplier agreements.
• Export experience across 20+ countries.
• Factory audits are welcome by appointment.

Cold Storage

Specialty polyurethane and stainless-bearing configurations can serve environments from -40°F to 32°F. Standard polyurethane may crack below -4°F.

High Heat

For temperatures above 176°F (80°C), consider high-temperature nylon rated up to 428°F (220°C) or a suitable cast-iron-core polyurethane construction.

Wet or Washdown Areas

Specify stainless hubs or bearings, sealed bearings, and compatible nylon or specialty polyurethane.

Chemical Exposure

Nylon provides broad chemical resistance. Polyurethane compatibility should be checked against the exact chemical and concentration.

Typical reference ranges: polyurethane -22°F to +176°F; nylon -4°F to +248°F, with specialty grades to +428°F; TPR -22°F to +149°F.

Yes. Made-to-order solutions are available for electronics, clean production, hazardous handling, and other controlled environments.

• ESD wheels: typically 10⁶–10⁹ Ω.
• Conductive wheels: typically below 10⁶ Ω.
• Explosion-risk applications can use non-sparking components and conductive polyurethane configurations.

Projects involving ATEX or OSHA-classified areas must be reviewed against the exact equipment, zone, and certification requirement. Typical development and production lead time is 30–45 days.

• Polyurethane: generally the quietest choice for smooth indoor floors.
• Nylon: harder and typically louder.
• Rubber: moderate noise with good shock absorption.

Actual noise depends on tread hardness, floor finish, bearings, load, speed, and debris. For noise-sensitive environments, softer polyurethane and precision bearings are usually the best starting point.

• Polyurethane is naturally non-marking in most applications.
• Nylon can mark some finishes, but special non-marking formulations are available.
• Standard rubber may mark; non-marking rubber compounds can be specified.
• Lower-hardness tread is generally gentler on finished floors.

Tell us the floor material and required load, and explicitly request a non-marking compound when appearance is critical.