Feature-rich hoists
Crane and hoist manufacturer Condra is to supply lifting equipment for an ongoing expansion at Aberdare Cables’ Port Elizabeth facility, South Africa.
The modernisation and expansion programme calls for two 23-metre-span overhead travelling factory cranes with capacities of 30 tons and 15 tons, and one 20-ton all-weather portal crane with a span of 26 metres.
The cranes, which will be used to handle newly filled power cable drums, sporting hand-held remote controls for operation from factory floor, control cabins for alternative operation from elevated vantage points (open cabins on the factory cranes; closed on the portal machine), variable frequency Vbelt drives on the hoists, and load cells to protect design limits and warn operators via LED lights when these limits are being approached.
