Grand Rapids, MI-based Duckbill LLC manufactures stable, comfortable and high-performance ergonomic bodyborne carrying gear for skilled trades in the infrastructure, construction and industrial maintenance sectors. Duckbill’s MobiltyMax™ modular product line is a system-based approach to upgrading new, or existing, fall protection harnesses.

The ease-of-use, personal choice options and real-time functionality that the Max-Con™ docking technology provides is built into all of the 100 MobilityMax hand tool, instrument and device modules. Each user can safely customize his/her gear, once, or repeatedly. Unlike other modular solutions, Duckbill technology is not harness-based – it’s moduledriven — allowing for any task/any tool mix/anywhere/anytime/any priority positioning of the modules. There are no hard plastic pre-positioned poles, pins, tabs or slots to wear out, stab, break off and catch or drag on clothes, lanyards and cords.

Duckbill’s MobilityMax product line transforms most fall protection harnesses equipped with removable shoulder pads into comfortable, safe, flexible and multi-purpose personal productivity platforms. The tool belt can be removed from the fall protection harness like any other belt and worn separately as a conventional tool belt with all of the hand tool, instrument and device modules in exactly the same position (or reassigned to a new position).

The significant feature of the MobilityMax modules is the proprietary double-clamshell Max-Con docking technology which establishes complete cross-linkage between the tool belt, the accessory modules and the anchor belt around 100% of the users’ waist.

When one mating half of the Max-Con docking clamshell built into each module links with the other mating half on the reverse face of the utility belt, the components form a single, comfortable, fully functional tool platform. The hand tool, bolt bags, instrument- and communications- carrying modules stay where needed.

Duckbill says the MobilityMax improves the users’ muscular-skeletal health, inhibits back pain and mitigates the nuisance pain caused by the harness rubbing against or pressing the tool belt against the body. It’s also been shown to reduce the chronic fatigue caused by the dynamic (kinetic) energy released when gear bounces, is improperly allocated or shifts out of its assigned position.

Duckbill LLC, www.Duckbill-Inc.com

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