Columbus McKinnon Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets intelligent motion solutions for moving, lifting, positioning, and securing materials worldwide. It offers manual hoists, electric and air hoists, winches, hydraulic jacks, trolleys and its clamps, and lifting tables; crane systems, such as mobile and jib cranes, material handling solutions, enclosed track rail systems, and crane components and kits; and rigging equipment comprising below-the-hook lifting devices, lifting slings and lashing systems, tie-downs and load binders, forestry and hand tools, and shackles. The company also provides power and motion technology products, including linear motion products, elevator and mining drives, automation and diagnostics, brakes, radio controls, cable and festoon systems, collision avoidance systems, AC line regenerative systems, AC and DC motor control systems, conductor bar systems, inverter duty motors, pendant pushbutton stations, and wind inverters.

In addition, it offers flexible chain, industrial belt, and sanitary stainless-steel conveyors, as well as pallet system conveyors and accumulation systems, and parts and belts; rotary unions and swivel joints; and rail technology products. The company serves various market verticals, including the manufacturing, transportation, energy and utilities, process industries, industrial automation, construction and infrastructure, food and beverage, entertainment, life sciences, consumer packaged goods, and e-commerce/supply chain/warehousing. It offers its products to end users directly, as well as through distributors, independent crane builders, material handling specialists and integrators, original equipment manufacturers, government agencies, and engineering procurement and construction firms.

The company was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.