Overhead Cranes
10 to 200 tons on double beam bridges spanning up to 49 metres, in light and winch builds.
Warehousing and Heavy Industry
Lifting from 250 kg to 360 tons, indoors on a runway or outdoors on legs.
Heavy handling divides on one question: does the lift happen in a fixed place. If it does, an overhead crane on a runway is the cheapest throughput available. If it does not, a gantry or a mobile crane carries the same duty on its own structure. The range covers 250 kg jib cranes through to 360 ton winch bridges, plus wire rope hoists in four drive types.
Sector pain points
What Goes Wrong In This Sector
No Building Steel to Hang a Crane From
Leased units and outdoor yards often cannot take a runway. Gantry, pillar and mast mountings carry the load without building structure.
Load Swing on Landing
Frequency converter drive ramps the hoist through its speed range so the hook settles on the mark instead of swinging.
Runways That Do Not Match Catalogue Spans
Girders are cut anywhere inside 0 to 49 metres to your measured rail centres.
Dead Time Crossing a Long Bay
Travel speed, not lifting speed, usually limits cycle time in a long building. Long travel runs to 90 m/min.
Lifting in Hazardous Areas
Pneumatic and explosion-proof wire rope hoists exist for lifting points where an electric hoist is not permitted.
Manual Handling of Heavy Inventory
Stacking and storing by hand carries both injury risk and damage cost. Electric hoist cranes remove the lift from the operator.
What buyers need
What This Sector Actually Asks For
- Span and hook height matched to the actual building
- Certification the site insurer and main contractor will accept
- Control format matched to the operating position and existing fleet
- Drive type selected from the area classification, not the budget
- Published motion speeds so cycle times can be calculated
- Capacity headroom within the same design family for future growth
Product groups
Groups That Serve This Sector
Gantry and Mobile Cranes
Lifting capacity up to 300 tons that travels between sites without disassembly.
Jib Cranes
Local lifting from 250 kg to 20 tons, in wall, column, pillar, mast, portable and davit mountings.
Hoists And Lifting Gear
Electric to 50 tons, pneumatic to 25 tons, manual to 5 tons, plus explosion-proof builds.
CNC Machining Parts
Wire EDM, grinding, drilling and mill component manufacture to your drawing.
Sheet Metal Fabrication
Cutting bending welding assembly and coating under one roof, from prototype to production.
Recommended products
Where Most Buyers In This Sector Start
How we work with you
From Enquiry To Repeat Supply
Decide Indoors or Outdoors First
That single question selects overhead, gantry or mobile before anything else is discussed.
Measure Span and Clear Height
Rail-to-rail centres and the clear height under the roof steel. Both constrain the design.
Count Lifts per Shift
Duty cycle separates a light build from a winch build, and it matters more than the tonnage.
Check the Structure
Runway design load against crane weight plus payload, or ground bearing pressure for a gantry or mobile crane.
Plan Load Test and Training
Load testing, operator training and handover documentation belong in the commissioning schedule, not after it.
Further reading
Guides For This Sector
Choosing an Overhead Crane Light Build or Winch Build
Most crane enquiries name a tonnage. The two questions that actually decide the crane are whether the hook pulls as well as lifts, and how many lifts it makes per shift.
Choosing a Jib Crane Mounting for Your Building
Six mounting types exist because the building constrains the crane more often than the load does. Wall, column, free-standing, articulating, mast and portable each solve a different constraint.
FAQ
Warehousing and Heavy Industry Questions
What capacity range do you cover?
From 250 kg on wall jib cranes to 360 tons on winch overhead cranes, with gantry cranes to 320 tons and mobile cranes to 300 tons or more.
What certification is supplied?
CE and ISO across the crane range, plus ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001:2018 on the EOT cranes.
What if our roof steel cannot take a runway?
An under-slung EOT crane hangs from the existing structure, or a gantry crane carries the load on its own legs.
Which control format should we choose?
Wireless remote where the operator needs to see the load from the floor, cab control on long runways, handheld pendant for simple duty.
Can capacity be increased later?
The light build family runs to 100 tons and the winch family to 360 tons, so higher duty is a design change within the same family.
Do you quote installation?
Installation and commissioning are quoted once the runway drawings or yard layout are reviewed.
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