About Machine Room Guarding

MRG grew out of a custom fabrication shop. Over the years, that shop built guarding for industrial customers of every kind: manufacturing and production lines, packaging and automation equipment, and food and beverage plants, each job measured and fabricated to fit the machine and protect the people working around it. The shop also had strong, long-standing relationships with elevator companies, and that work grew into something more specialized: perimeter guarding for elevator machine rooms, component guarding, and car top rails built for the realities of elevator work.

We saw the potential for a dedicated product line, gave it its own name, and have marketed Machine Room Guarding as a specific brand ever since. Today that adds up to more than 30 years of guarding experience and over 1,000 installations. We see demand for this work worldwide, and our focus is North America.

For the elevator industry. This is where MRG runs deepest. We fabricate machine room perimeter guarding, component guarding, and fixed and collapsible car top rails, and we work with major elevator OEMs and independent elevator contractors across the United States and Canada. The Global Guarding parts line covers common machine room layouts with standard panels, posts, and door kits, and custom fabrication covers everything else. Contractors typically allow about four hours to guard one elevator machine, and crews familiar with the system have occasionally reported three or four machines in a day. Actual times vary with site conditions and crew experience.

For industrial facilities. The same survey-and-fabricate approach applies to plant-floor equipment: barrier guarding for production lines, packaging and automation machinery, and processing equipment in food and beverage environments. If it has moving parts and people near them, we can build guarding to fit it. All of it is custom machine guarding: surveyed, engineered, and fabricated to the equipment it protects.