Tag: heavy lifting
Steel shortage a bonanza for some
SOUTH AFRICA’s current steel shortage is compounding an already serious obstacle to the efficient functioning of the subcontinent’s overhead crane market: declining service footprints.
Currently, only Condra has both the capability to...
Big Carl Lifts ESTA Crane Job of the Year
Sarens have won the “Crane Job of the Year” award in the lattice boom category for its 5 000t SGC-250 super heavy lift ring crane working at the Hinkley Point C...
Fourteenth crane for Black Mountain Zinc
CAPE Town lifting equipment company BB Cranes has secured an order for the fourteenth overhead crane to be installed at Gamsberg Zinc Mine in Northern Cape Province.
Placed by Mota-Engil, the order...
Crane company overcomes car plant deadline
HP Cranes Consulting, the Brakpan-based company specialising in tower and gantry cranes, has won the much anticipated contract to supply coil-handling machines to a new South African vehicle plant, relying on...
Wind breaks for super-span crane
CONDRA has followed deliveries of customised cranes for injection-moulding and shipboard maintenance applications with a third overhead machine of unusual design, this one sporting an exceptionally wide span of no less...
Horses for courses – are bigger warehouses worth it?
Factories and warehouses are wider than ever, and existing buildings are being extended to make them longer. Both trends beg questions about increases in productivity – are they in proportion to...
Hook-block the star of this overhead crane
The humble hook-block was recently elevated in status to become the key component of an electric overhead crane completed by Condra for a metal refinery.
Custom designed to specification, the block comprised...
Lovingly Lifting
Valentine’s Day is once more just around the corner and Retail steps up to promote the demand, drawing from Distribution Centres far and wide.
People all over the world send...
CTC Plant celebrate 25 years
Those with a good memory will remember a special occasion in a particular year, say 1992, others will identify events, songs or movies perhaps.
It was the year of the Olympics and...
Johnson lifts big and small at world’s largest air sep plant
Engaged by Stefanutti Stocks Oil & Gas Division in the construction of the largest air separation train ever built, Johnson Crane Hire has been providing heavy lift services as well as...
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Two SAB plants get R5.8 billion upgrades
The R5.8 billion investment commitment made by South African Breweries (SAB) has been utilised to increase capacity at two of its plants.
The company said...
