Year: 2007

Waterwegen & Zeekanaal vzw exists for 25 years. They celebrated that on 5th June 2007 with an academic session and jubilee diner at the Lamot site in Mechelen, and with a jubilee brochure. E-Crane Worldwide / Indusign was one of the main sponsors. 1982-2007: 25 Years of Waterwegen & Zeekanaal vzw The goal of Waterwegen & Zeekanaal vzw (WenZ) is to promote and stimulate the use of our (Flemish) waterways. “Therefore, we have to keep optimizing those waterways and all their aspects”, writes Mr. Frans D’Haese, president of WenZ, in his foreword for the jubilee...

Mr. Osborne used a 6-iron to ace the 150-yard, par-3 eighth hole. The odds of getting a hole in one for the average golfer is more than 8,000 to 1 ! It should not be a surprise that getting an ace is a golfer’s biggest trill and it is said that it keeps a golfer in a good mood for the next 12 months. On behalf of the whole E-Crane team: Congratulations Mark! The picture above: Mark Osborne taking the ball out of the cup on number 8 at New Winchester Golf Course on 5-30-07!

The moment of tilt invariably plays a major role where cranes with long extension arms are deployed to lift and move heavy weights. In docks or railway facilities covering a wide area where, for example, bulk materials or scrap metal weighing several tonnes need to be moved, cranes of this type are nevertheless in their element. The Belgian company E-Crane Worldwide in Adegem has already been responding to this sophisticated technical challenge for more than 16 years with its special design “E-Crane®” (equilibrated crane): counterweights are used to bring into equilibrium the major part...

Over 50% of the electric energy consumed in the USA is generated by fossil fuel (coal) burning power plants. Utility companies burning fossil fuels require a carefully blended mix of coal which is sourced from US mines as well as Latin American and international suppliers to minimize fuel expenses and to meet increasingly stringent emission regulations. Now these fossil fuel-burning power plants also need to offload limestone for their flue gas desulphurization sustems to comply with emission regulations. As most US power plants were built 30 to 40 – or more – years ago, utility...

A common question is “does size matter?”. For Schelde-Natie in the port of Antwerp in Belgium, the answer is now “no”. Schelde-Natie can now offer efficient and immediate high-quality unloading of rapeseed using its new E-Crane®. The first Panamax vessel to be unloaded using the new crane arrived on 8 October last year. Unloading the Cargo gave the 1000- series E-Crane® a full workout. With an outreach of only 32 metres, and limited space on the dock and only 200 metres of crane rails along the quay, E- Crane engineers had to work closely with Schelde-Natie management...

When you build and install very big equipment world-wide, like E-Crane® does, you get involved in some of the largest and most complicated erection projects. Our E-Crane® engineers develop transport and erection procedures that consider the full range of site constraints and we design comprehensive plans to erect our cranes in the safest and most efficient manner possible. The E-Crane® project for the new coal unloader at the Crystal River power station (Tampa, Florida) is a typical example of such a complex and complicated transport and erection process. The manufacturing and the initial shop...