Crane Manufacture & Installation

Every installation starts with the duty, which means establishing what the crane must lift, how often, over what span and in what environment. From there, we survey the building, assess the structure and the classification the duty demands, and specify a crane that matches the work rather than the nearest standard model.

Because we are independent, the recommendation is driven by suitability and budget, and a quality reconditioned crane is on the table when it makes more sense than new.

Where the requirement is unusual, our group’s design and manufacturing capability takes over, producing bespoke solutions from lifting beams to complete crane systems, with designs that can be reviewed as a 3D model before a single section is fabricated.

Overhead travelling cranes handle the heavy, repetitive work of manufacturing, fabrication, and maintenance, and the configuration determines how well the crane serves the people beneath it over the next twenty years. Single or double girder, top running or underslung, the hoist speeds, the control system, we work through each of those against your duty cycle rather than against whatever model happens to be nearest, and we install the runway beams and supporting steelwork where the building needs them.

Gantry and semi-gantry cranes bring the same capability where the building structure cannot carry a runway, running on floor mounted rails with their own legs. Either way, the installation is planned around your operations, with lifts, isolations and downtime agreed before anyone arrives on site, because a crane going in should not stop the work it was bought to support.

A well placed swing jib transforms a workstation, putting controlled lifting exactly where the work happens without occupying the whole bay. We install floor-mounted and column-mounted jibs, with manual or powered slew, sized to the arc and capacity the task requires, with the foundation or column connection engineered and proven rather than assumed.

Jib installations are frequently the quickest win in a lifting review, with only a day or two of installation, removing years of manual handling risk from a single operation. Where the fixing goes into existing structure, the anchors are proven by pull testing before the jib takes its first load.

No crane we install goes to work unproven.

Our commissioning includes full functional testing and proof load testing against the rated capacity, with the crane certified and its documentation handed over complete, with test certificates, technical files and the inspection schedule the crane will live on. Operators are shown the machine, and the first LOLER thorough examination date is set before we leave.

From there, the same team that installed the crane can keep it working through our crane maintenance and servicing, which means the engineers who arrive for a service already know the machine from bare steel upward.