Medium duty casters carry up to 1,250 lb per caster — the everyday range under service carts, utility rigs, shop carts, and the warehouse equipment that moves all day. It's the tier where the caster has to be genuinely durable but the load still lets a four-caster set roll comfortably by hand.
Medium duty is where the largest volume of working equipment lives. A loaded utility cart, a shop cart, a warehouse picking rig — run the load math and the per-caster number lands in this band constantly. It's the default tier, and the tiles below shop it by wheel material and capacity so you can match the floor and the load without over-buying.
Wheel cores span polyolefin at the light end through cast iron near 1,250 lb. Bearings are precision ball through most of the range, roller at the top. Standard kingpin swivels — durable, smooth, and the right value at this load. Wheel material is the decision that matters most: polyurethane for floor protection, rubber for quiet, phenolic for oily floors.
They overlap — medium duty tops at 1,250 lb, medium-light at 1,500 lb. Both are the everyday hand-pushable industrial range.
Polyurethane on a metal core for most plant floors — capacity plus floor protection. Match the wheel to your specific floor and environment.
If the equipment parks on a slope or needs to stay put — yes, total-lock is standard. On flat floors, optional.
Our US-based caster engineers will match the right build to your load, floor, and application.
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