About Us

About Wolter

Since the Wolter story began in 1962, our company, like our industry, has been constantly evolving. We’ve grown to become one of the largest and most diverse industrial equipment and productivity solutions providers in the country.

Along the way, we’ve assembled the parts and pieces necessary to address our clients’ unique productivity challenges. In 2011, we gathered our companies under one umbrella, Wolter Group, LLC to make our collective strength more easily recognizable. Now, we’re taking that a step further and rebranding all of our member companies under a single name: Wolter.

The Future of Productivity

Think of us as a secret weapon against inefficiency. From new and used material handling equipment, service and training to robotics and automation, overhead cranes and hoists, standby power generation, railcar movers, storage solutions, complete engineered systems and more, Wolter is focused on improving operational productivity for its customers. Together, we’re transforming today’s operational expenses into tomorrow’s revenue streams. Explore more about the new Wolter and how we can help your business at WeAreWolter.com.

We serve more than 20,000 industrial, construction and commercial customers in Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri. With more than 460 employees, our 200-plus technicians are some of the most highly trained in the industry.

Our Mission

Create serious competitive advantages for customers by leveraging our products, services and our people’s unique expertise to reimagine their operational productivity opportunities.

Our Promise

Wolter takes a team-oriented approach to customers’ operation productivity challenges. Through the sharing of a diverse range of disciplines and ideas, we’re able to look at every customer’s situation more holistically. As a result, we provide tailored solutions uniquely designed to Accelerate Your Productivity.

Wolter Group LLC Members Will Be Rebranded as Wolter

In an effort to give our customers more integrated productivity solutions, we’ll be bringing all of our companies under the Wolter name. During this transitional period, you’ll still see these former brand names along with the Wolter name. For more information about this process, visit WeAreWolter.com.

	Wisconsin Lift Truck is one of the largest, full-service material handling distributors in the Midwest providing sales, service, parts, training, leasing, and rentals of forklifts, aerial lifts, industrial cleaning equipment, mobile railcar movers, and more throughout Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.
	Illinois Material Handling is a full-service material handling distributor that offers a wide variety of products and services including sales, rentals, leasing, training, and repair of forklifts, aerial lifts, industrial cleaning equipment, mobile railcar movers, and more throughout Northern Illinois.
	Kensar Equipment Company provides new, used, and wholesale forklifts, aerial lifts, rough terrain forklifts, personnel carriers, and other heavy construction equipment nationwide. Additionally, Kensar Equipment Company is a full-service dealer, providing rentals and service support to businesses throughout Indiana and Ohio.
	Bohnert Equipment Company provides materials-handling equipment such as forklifts, aerial lifts, pallet racks, conveyors, overhead cranes, and more throughout Kentucky and Ohio since 1934. Bohnert is a full-service dealer offering service, rentals, parts, and training to keep your business running.
	A D Lift Truck supplies businesses with material handling equipment such as new and pre-owned forklifts, aerial lifts, pallet racking, and more throughout the St. Louis metro area and southern Illinois since 1977. Furthermore, the company offers service & repair, rentals, parts, and training to support its customers.
	Fleet Services is a highly-specialized group of material handling professionals, experts in developing the most efficient flow of material through your operations. These fleet service professionals work with you to implement strategies to control and reduce the cost of moving materials throughout your business using fleet studies, material flow studies, and equipment asset management systems.
	Ellis Systems is a premier distributor of filing, shelving & material storage systems in the Midwest, providing space-saving storage solutions for office and industrial applications. Products and services include; sales, service, and installation of high-density mobile shelving systems, vertical lifts & carousels, rotary files, storage shelving, color-coded filing, mailroom systems & more.
	Wolter Investment Company offers flexible equipment-leasing strategies and solutions to our material handling customers in conjunction with our Fleet Services division.
	Wolter Power Systems provides sales, service, parts, rentals, and training throughout the state of Wisconsin and is an authorized distributor for new industrial engines, exchange engines, generators, transfer switches, pumps, and mobile light towers from leading manufacturers.

Our Leadership

Otto Wolter – Founder & CEO

Jerry Weidmann – President

Ross Jeremiah – Executive VP

Martin Park – COO

Steve Kletzien – CFO

Kristin Lelewicz – CMO

Julie Williams – CIO

Kim Wachs – CHRO