Handling - E-Crane

KENCANA MURIA JAYA

2024-11-06

KMJ first started to operate their E-Crane in 2019 at Muara Berau outer anchorage in East Kalimantan close to Samarinda. As a result of the successful operation during the first couple of years, in early 2022 the decision was taken to invest in a second identical floating E-Crane. Both crane barges were built in Batam, after which the cranes were installed in the same shipyard and towed to Kalimantan. Experience shows that the floating E-Cranes can comfortably be used in wave heights of up to 2.5m while rope cranes in the same area need to cease operation at wave heights of 1.5...

CITIC PACIFIC MINING

2024-11-06

DESCRIPTION OF E-CRANE Magdragon II (130 X 28 X 6.5m) is a Floating Transfer Station owned and operated by Citic Pacific Mining and is part of the Sino Iron Ore Project, the largest magnetite mining and processing operation in Australia. Operations take place 100km south west of Karratha in Western Australia’s resource rich Pilbara region. Two 3000 Series E-Cranes unload magnetite from ocean going barges shuttling between the port and outer anchorage where there is enough draft to load Baby Cape vessels (112,000 DWT). The FTS operates 24/7 and has recorded a monthly loading...

BAYAN RESOURCES

2024-11-06

DESCRIPTION OF E-CRANE Two 2000 Series E-Cranes are operating at Balikpapan Coal Terminal, owned by Bayan Resources. At this terminal barges from Bayan’s different mine sites are unloaded and transported to stockpile after which coal is loaded by dedicated ship loaders into large ocean going vessels. The E-Cranes typically unload coal from 8,000 DWT deck barges into two hoppers (selection of hopper depends on swing angle ). Design capacity of each crane is 1,500 tons per hour and up to 400,000 tons per month is being unloaded with one E-Crane. Both cranes are also...

Nucor General Recycling

2012-09-13

Description of the E-Crane Nucor General Recycling installed a 700 Series E-Crane® for feeding auto bodies into a shredder at their Flowood, Mississippi facility near Jackson. The shredder was previously fed by older material handler which was replaced with the new E-Crane®. E-Crane® engineers worked with Nucor to develop a turn-key solution for removing the old crane and erecting the E-Crane® in its place. The E-Crane® is mounted on a 4-legged pedestal, with custom stairways to accommodate the infrastructure that had previously been surrounding the old crane. Complete assembly and installation,...

Mulzer Crushed Stone

2012-03-13

Description of the E-Crane Mulzer Crushed Stone installed a 1500B Series E-Crane® for handling aggregate and stone at their facility in Evansville, Indiana. Previously, Mulzer had been using a barge mounted material handler for this application. They were ready to move on to a new solution in order to improve operation. E-Crane® had better parts availability and good service ‒ something they were looking for in a new solution. E-Crane® engineers worked with Mulzer to come up with an ideal solution. Mulzer believed in the concept of having a long outreach floating crane and saw that a...

IÇDAŞ 3

2011-08-20

Description of the E-Crane IÇDAŞ, headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey had already two E-Cranes® working in the extremely harsh and dusty environment of the steel mill’s harbour and scrap yard when they decided to order a 3000 Series E-Cranes®. The new E-Crane® scrap giant was put into operation at the state-of-the-art IÇDAŞ steel mill in Biga. This impressive 3000 Series E-Crane® has changed the skyline of the steel mill and is now the heart of the scraplogistics between the port and the steel mill. The total weight of this fixed pedestal E-Crane® is 647 tons. A duty cycle capacity...

Sherwin Alumina

2010-04-17

Description of the E-Cranes When Sherwin Alumina needed to find a replacement for their old Continous Ship Unloaders, research showed E-Crane® to be the perfect and reliable solution for their bauxite ship unloading needs. While the CSU’s are impressive mechanical designs, the reality of constant and high cost of maintenance along with poor reliability has caused major unloading delays and brought about huge demurrage costs. The two E-Cranes were purchased fully assembled ready for pick-up at an offsite location for less than half of the cost of one of the old CSU’s new in the 1980’s....

Port of Kokkola

2010-02-17

Description of the E-Crane The Port of Kokkola’s favourable location in mid/west Finland makes it a very well-known harbour with good connections to other parts of Finland, both by road and rail. After extending the ‘Deep Port’ quay, it was decided to purchase a new E-Crane Model 17359 GA-E to increase the Port’s loading and unloading capacity. The main reason for choosing this type of crane is the fact that this hydraulic balanced crane can operate with utmost precision plus the high transloading capacity. Capacities of 700-1000 tons per hour can be reached. Furthermore the low energy...

IÇDAŞ

2009-11-09

Description of the E-Crane In 2007 IÇDAŞ set out to look for an alternative for their fleet of hydraulic material handlers. While they recognized the advantages a hydraulic material handler offers compared to rope cranes, the limited machine life in combination with high operating cost made them look for a suitable alternative. This is why they got in touch with E-Crane® who could offer an alternative with both a much longer life as well as lower operating cost. In 2008 the first E-Crane® was delivered to IÇDAŞ’ Biga steel mill soon followed by an identical unit in 2009. The...

Van Heyghen Recycling 3

2009-04-11

This is the third successful installation of an E-Crane® for Van Heyghen Recycling, part of the group Galloo. There are now seven E-Crane® balanced cranes operational at the different Galloo sites in Belgium and France. The new 2000 Series E-Crane® has greatly reduced operating time and costs in loading Handymax vessels and in receiving, handling and stocking scrap in the yard. The E-Crane® is used for stockpiling the scrap to a height of over 25 meters, necessary to ensure there is enough scrap ready for the loading of Handymax ships. Since the arrival of the new E-Crane®, unloading barges...

Seaboard – Midema

2008-06-08

Description of the E-Crane Seaboard operates grain processing and milling facilities throughout South America, the Carribean and Africa. For their MIDEMA (Minoterie de Matadi) flour mills operations in Matadi along the Congo River, they opted for a floating midstream ship unloading / transloading station for vessels up to Handymax size. The E-Crane® team worked closely with the client during the development of the midstream transfer facility. Conceptual design studies were carried out in close cooperation with the customer to determine the optimum floating terminal concept with particular...

E-Dredger Albatros

2008-04-23

Description The new E-Dredger®® features the renowned E-Crane® equilibrium principe for smooth, efficient, energy saving operation in a multitude of dredging and related applications. These include sites where E-Crane® customers typically operate, such as piling, ship salvaging, heavy demolition with dynamiting, classic dyke works, construction of breakwaters, quay construction, land reclamation and beach and embankment preservation. Recently, an E-Dredger® was installed onto a self-propelled spud barge for our client Herbosch-Kiere (part of the group Eiffage) in Kallo, Belgium. The 1500B...

Tisco

2008-01-08

Description of the E-Crane The successful installation of the second 1000 Series E-Crane® at the Tisco steel mill is the closing stone of the new scrap yard and confirmation of E-Crane’s leading position in supplying solutions to the steel industry. For this Tisco-project, E-Crane® provided a proven scrap yard layout and the material handling equipment for improved performance. E-Crane® scrap handling solutions utilize specially designed E-Crane® material handling equipment and state-of-the-art communications to improve the logistics and reduce operating costs. We are very excited...

Kinder Morgan

2007-11-09

Description of the E-Crane Kinder Morgan needed a state-of-the-art material handler to unload incoming scrap from barges for the new SeverCorr Steel Mill, a state-of-the-art, “next-generation” facility being built in Columbus, MS about eight miles from the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway. Kinder Morgan transfers scrap and other materials from barges onto trucks for transport to the nearby SeverCorr facility. “Initially we sat down with the E-Crane® people and suppliers of other components for our new facility and brainstormed design and construction possibilities. As far...

Harsco Metals – Acindar

2007-11-08

Description of the E-Crane Electric arc furnace (EAF) steel mills like Acindar rely on a steady stream of baskets filled with scrap metal to be ready as feedstock every hour of every day that the mill is up and running. Supporting Acindar’s plans to further increase production and efficiency, Harsco Metals ordered two new E-Cranes, to play a key role in their comprehensive on-site scrap management services. In July 2007, the 1000B Series E-Crane® was installed next to the 700 Series E-Crane® at the villa Constitución plant. Both cranes have been designed in close cooperation with...

River Metals

2007-06-08

Description of the E-Crane End 2007, River Metals Recycling replaced several conventional material handlers by the 1000 Series E-Crane®, that is now feeding the world’s largest shear: the 3000 ton Henschel scrap shear. This brought a lot more flexibility to RMR’s operations: in between shear cycles the E-Crane® unloads trucks, sorts and stockpiles sheared material and in addition to a 4 tine scrap grab, the E-Crane® is also magnet equipped for greater versatility. RMR believes in protecting the environment and it was with this goal in mind they opted for the E-Crane®. The E-Crane® is...

Lowman Power Plant

2007-04-17

Description of the E-Crane When PowerSouth Energy Cooperative upgraded its Lowman Power Plant on the Tombigbee River for flue gas desulfurization (FGD), E-Crane® offered a turnkey solution to the increased material unloading and river level problems: an E-Crane® floating terminal consisting of two barges (2000 Series E-Crane® and conveyor back-up), a hopper, a barge-haul system, and a barge-breasting system. E-Crane® maintenance is simple, quick and easy. The E-Crane® is much safer and more reliable than the old gantry rope crane. And the E-Crane® system is easy to operate, so the fatigue...

Cargill Schelde-Natie

2006-11-08

Description of the E-Crane Schelde-Natie realized a new offloading project in the port of Antwerp in cooperation with Cargill. The goal is to discharge 575,000 tons of oilseeds per year. In order to achieve this goal, Schelde-Natie replaced an existing grain elevator with an Equilibrium crane to offload vessels and a “bulk-flow” system to discharge rail cars. After careful study of the options and excellent references for the E-Crane®, Schelde-Natie contacted E-Crane®. Another plus for E-Crane® is the fact that two E-Cranes are operating successfully since September 2000 at...

Harsco Metals – Carinox

2005-11-08

Description of the E-Crane For Harsco Metals’ scrap management project at Arcelor’s new stainless steel mill, two 1000 Series E-Cranes have been working simultaneously at the Ugine & ALZ Carinox site since 2005. A 24/24 – 7/7 hour operation of the scrap yard is required to satisfy the melt shop’s scrap requirements. E-Crane® Worldwide has a 24/7/365 maintenance and service contract for the E-Cranes on the Carinox site. On July 4th 2007, a third 1000 Series E-Crane® was succesfully installed and is since assisting both in unloading inbound scrap and filling...

Cargill Fertilizer Houston

2001-11-09

Description of the E-Crane Cargill Fertilizer has purchased a second new E-Crane® that was installed in April 2001 at its Houston Ship Channel facility. The new grab type E-Crane® is designed for discharging fertilizer and grain from ocean going barges and bulk carriers up to Panamax size. Ricky Carlson, the Cargill Wholesale Fertilizer Manager said, “this second E-Crane® purchase by Cargill is part of our on going commitment to improve customer service and increase fertilizer volume at our facilities”. The Cargill E-Crane® was designed by E-Crane International USA together...

Galloo France

2001-11-08

Description of the E-Crane During the last phase of an ambitious expansion program, the Galloo Group has put a second E-Crane® into service at their Menen/Halluin scrap yard. The integration of this machine was carefully considered. At the end of 1999, a unit became available and the decision was taken to put a second E-Crane® into service. The crane is used to feed a shear. In close cooperation with E-Crane® Worldwide, the crane was dismantled, transported and carefully erected. A new overload system was mounted and a new scrap grab was delivered. This scrap grab was built according...

Beelman River Terminals

2001-02-28

Description of the E-Crane In the spring of 2001, Beelman River Terminals began offloading operations at their new terminal in Venice, IL., which is situated on the east bank of the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis. The crane was engineered specifically for the Beelman facility and is mounted on a 4-legged pedestal directly to 4 piles. The receiving hopper is barge mounted and captive between dolphins. This design allows for a full range of river levels without effecting the unloading cycle time. Although the complete facility and infrastructure at the Venice facility is not...

Wayne B. Smith

2000-11-09

Description of the E-Crane In keeping with the philosophy of doing things better, Wayne B. Smith, Inc. was looking for ways to provide better service to their customers and gain an advantage over their competitors. Mr. Jerry Smith, General Manger for WBS said the new E-Crane® would be used dockside to unload bulk commodities. It has the potential to increase capacity, but the main reason we went with the E-Crane® was the ease of operation, efficiency and operator friendliness.Mr. Jerry Smith – General Manger, Wayne B. Smith The E-Crane® was commissioned in May of 2000. The...

Peavey Products

2000-11-08

Description of the E-Crane ConAgra Foods, dba The Peavey Company in St. Paul Minnesota has purchased a 1000 Series, Model 7264 E-Crane® for use at the at Red Rock Terminal. The crane was installed in February 2001 by ECI – USA, Indusign, and Crane & Machinery, the regional service dealer. This Equilibrium Crane (E-Crane®) is a mobile unit mounted on crawler tracks. The main hydraulic pumps are electrically driven with power provided by a Caterpillar Diesel Generator Set. The mobile crane allows for operations in several locations around the Red Rock Terminal. The day operator,...

Cargill Fertilizer

2000-09-08

Description of the E-Crane The Cargill Fertilizer facility in Savage Minnesota needed to reduce operating costs and increase the volume produced by their barge offloading operation. A conventional cable crane and rope operated bucket had been the offloading method at “Port Cargill” facility for years, but increasing safety concerns, repair costs and poor reliability made it clear that a change was needed. Lisa Brickey , Terminal Superintendent said: “The E-Crane design is perfect for an operation such as ours. Its efficient operation is a major step to increasing our...

B.V. ZeeHavenbedrijf Dordrecht

2000-08-29

Description of the E-Crane When the need for additional material handling capacity arose, Zeehavenbedrijf Dordrecht (ZHD) selected an E-Crane®. The new crane’s primary duty is in the processing of stainless steel scrap but it will also be used for loading and unloading of both inner waterway and sea going vessels. The E-Crane® went into service in September 2000 and now provides significant additional material handling and lifting abilities for ZHD. Because of the need to cover the entire yard and have the ability to travel with the load attached, ZHD opted for the E-Crane® on crawlers....

B&N Coal

1999-11-08

Description of the E-Crane When new emission laws mandated B&N Coal to blend low-sulfur coal at this plant, they explored several options on how to most efficiently meet that requirement. The coal, arriving by barge, had to be offloaded into hoppers feeding the Power Plant. Since the E-Crane’s installation in September 1999, it has met or exceeded all productivity expectations. Situated on fixed cells, the crane with its parallelogram designed boom, effortlessly handles all water fluctuations. Of all the benefits that this E-Crane offers, Carl has most impressed with its...

Lafarge Corporation

1998-11-09

Description of the E-Crane This E-Crane®, installed in the 4th quarter of 1998, was the first barge mounted E-Crane® to be sold in the United States. At the time it was also the largest E-Crane® working on the inland waterways and the first barge mounted crane in the world fully dedicated to bulk material handling. Its task of offloading limestone was previously handled with five self-unloading barges. Productivity is already out-pacing the existing belt feed system. By the time phase 2 of the plan is completed none of those barges will be required and they will eliminate the need for...

CCB

1996-11-08

Description of the E-Crane Faced with increasing repair costs, poor reliability and low productivity, the CCB Company needed a new way to handle material. Changes had to be made in a short period of time to stay operational and reduce costs. The E-Crane® not only offloads barges and feeds several hoppers, but the increased reach and stock-out capacity eliminates the need for additional hoppers and conveyor belts. This crane is mounted on a low portal on crawlers allowing the crane to work and maneuver in narrow spaces in the yard and along the dock. The crane has been in service for...

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