About
Who We Are
Whether you’re digging, lifting, moving, or building, you put in 100% – no matter how tough the job.
Your work demands the best heavy equipment, and our job is to deliver it. We are Viking West.
Since 2013, we have been designing and manufacturing high-performance industrial machinery, heavy equipment accessories and service parts for Hitachi Construction Machinery dealers around the world. By combining innovative design, advanced manufacturing capabilities and top-quality materials, we ensure that every Viking West product delivers reliable performance in even the most challenging conditions.
Our approach is straightforward: work with integrity, grow with innovation and thrive with collaboration. That’s what you can count on from Viking West. That’s how we deliver value by design.
Our Take on Social Responsibility
At Viking West, we work the way we live: caring for the people, communities and environment around us.
Our team loves everything outdoors, from leisurely family picnics in the park to backcountry adventures in search of remote mountain lookouts. We also recognize our responsibility to protect these opportunities so we can share this joy with our children, our neighbours and future generations.
The Viking West team supports organizations and causes that make meaningful contributions aligned with these values, such as Ride for Cancer and the Vancouver Food Bank.
With this mindset, social responsibility doesn’t feel like something separate. Instead, it’s part of our day-to-day lives and ingrained in our values, just like a sun-filled afternoon in the park.
The best partnerships are built with integrity. Contact us to learn how we can work together to meet your industrial equipment needs.
Our Beliefs
- We believe in maintaining our integrity in everything we do.
- We believe in overcoming challenges with open communication.
- We believe in supporting our customers through thick and thin.
- We believe in boosting performance with continuous improvement.
- We believe in listening to the needs of each customer.
- We believe in harnessing global capabilities to deliver world-class quality.
- We believe in the boundless potential of engineering.
Shaping the Future With Engineering
Engineering expertise sits at the core of our business.
Building on two and a half decades of experience with Hitachi Construction Machinery in the Canadian construction and forestry industry, Viking West founder and president Mike Schlender has kept us focused on producing world-class engineered products from day one. And with every new day we ask ourselves again: how can we shape a better, more productive future for our customers?
Here’s how:
- Translating customer pain points into cost-effective engineering solutions.
- Directing our deep expertise toward making industrial machinery safer and more efficient.
- Innovating at the nexus of technological capabilities and industry developments.
- Recognizing that sometimes the smallest improvements can add up to yield massive value.
World-Class Manufacturing For World-Class Machinery
Would you like to know about our full-service manufacturing facility?
We can tell you all about our 320,000 sq ft facility and ISO 9001:2008 certification. We can go into great detail about our capabilities, from laser and plasma plate processing to press brake and roll forming. We can show you our equipment for manual and robotic welding, or our shot blasting and electrostatic paint facilities. We can tell you about our expert staff.
We’re happy to share all of this and more, but we know that ultimately what matters most is how your machinery performs, not how it is made.
You require world-class machinery that is versatile, reliable and cost-effective. And we have the world-class manufacturing capabilities to deliver.
Learn more about our custom manufacturing capabilities.
Looking for a quote or detailed product specs? Our sales team would be happy to help.
