Steel & Metal Fabrication

A fabrication shop is built around its overhead cranes: plate, coil, weldments and finished steel move from the truck to the saw to the weld bay to shipping, and the crane sets the pace of all of it. Double-girder overhead cranes carry the heaviest plate and weldments at high duty; magnet and coil-handling configurations move raw stock without slings; and a gantry crane handles the yard and laydown where a runway does not reach. Kranes supplies, installs and services these in-plant cranes for the high duty cycles a fabrication shop runs, including lifting-magnet and coil-handling systems, with the hoists, controls and parts to keep them under continuous load. Throughput is money in a shop, so the crane is specified for the duty class it actually sees and modernized — new hoist, new controls — when an older structure is sound but slow.

Steel & Metal Fabrication — The work

Specifying a shop crane comes down to the loads, the span and how hard the crane runs all shift. Tell Kranes the heaviest plate or coil, the bay span and the duty cycle, and we engineer a system that survives a fabrication environment rather than wearing out under it. Installation is sequenced to keep the floor producing, and existing runways are checked to carry the new duty. A fabrication crane runs hard, so inspection, certification and a stocked parts supply are what keep it producing safely.

The right crane

Kranes documents cranes to OSHA and ASME B30, services them on a duty-based schedule and sources wire rope, brakes, magnets, controls and wear parts fast. Tell us the loads, the span and how hard you run the crane, and we quote a system built to last in a fabrication shop, anywhere in the United States.