Every part here is rated by its working load limit: the heaviest load it may carry in service. Start from the load and how it is rigged — the number of legs, the sling angle, how the weight is shared — and choose the component whose WLL covers the worst-loaded leg. Two parts of the same nominal size can carry very different loads: a Grade 80 hook and a carbon hook of the same frame, or a shackle loaded straight and one side-loaded. Proof and breaking loads are test figures; never select on them.

A lifting component is rated with a design factor between its WLL and its minimum breaking load. Alloy chain and its fittings are typically rated at 4:1, wire rope slings at 5:1, and forged shackles at 5:1 or 6:1 depending on the standard they are made to. Each size table shows the ratings the manufacturer publishes, in the unit they are rated in, and each product page names the pattern or standard its range follows — DIN 580, EN 13411-3 or the US G-209 and G-2130 patterns, for example.

Every consignment ships with the manufacturer's test certificate. If your site needs more — third-party certification or witnessed proof testing — put it on the RFQ and we will confirm what we can arrange before we quote.

Ex-stock from Dubai, delivered within 3 working days in the UAE.

Rigging hardware is bought on its working load limit and its certificate, and both travel with the part: every shackle, hook, chain and sling ships from Dubai with the manufacturer's test certificate, so the receiving inspection checks a document against a stamp rather than a claim. Hardware and fittings go by air or courier in cartons; wire rope, chain, hoists and anchors are heavy enough that sea freight is usually the sensible answer.