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Konecranes UK introduces a smart lifting partner for
industry 06/10
Konecranes wins Manchester Energy from Waste cranes
supply Contract 06/10
Konecranes wins contract to supply all the cranes for
the new SAICA Paper Mill in Trafford 06/10
Rok adds to original Konecranes order for Argyll Turbine
project 06/10
Two Goliaths delivered and installed at the Riverside
Resource Recovery Ltd, Energy from Waste Facility
Project at Belvedere, London 03/10
Sales and Profit on the up at KONECRANES UK Ltd
Industrial Crane Division 02/02
Konecranes UK WINS CO MEATH WASTE TO
ENERGY CONTRACT 10/09
Siemens Austria awards energy cranes
contract to Konecranes UK 09/09
Cordeel NV orders Konecranes for new
Romanian shipyard 09/09
Konecranes UK WINS ISLE OF JERSEY WASTE TO ENERGY
CONTRACT 08/09
Konecranes UK WINS SMULDERS WIND TURBINE CONTRACT
07/09
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Konecranes UK introduces a smart lifting partner for
industry
Konecranes UK Ltd’s Industrial
Crane Division has introduced a crane with technology
that make its control almost child’s play. Called
SMARTON®, it presents an evolution in crane technology,
designed to maximize customer productivity and minimize
total lifecycle costs. SMARTON® can be used in
industrial sectors such as paper, steel handling and
warehousing, automotive, general manufacturing, power,
workshops, automatic storage systems and mining to name
but a few. Depending on the set up, SMARTON® can lift
loads ranging from 5 tons to more than 500 tons.
SMARTON®’s intelligent, yet
easy-to-use Human Interface to Machine (HIM) system
keeps the user continuously up to date on not only the
weight of the load but also its position relative to the
available workspace. In addition, the crane monitors its
own condition and recommends when and what kinds of
inspection or preventive maintenance should be
performed. This way, the customer can better plan and
minimize maintenance shutdowns, thereby maximizing
uptime and saving costs.
SMARTON®’s evolutionary design is
based on significant improvements in crane technology in
proven modular components and features. This means that
the crane can easily be updated with smart solutions,
such as automated positioning, sway prevention, extended
speed range, defined working areas, maintenance
monitoring or remote diagnostics, to meet evolving
changes in a customer’s business and process needs.
SMARTON® is a robust crane that is
compact in size. This enables new industrial spaces to
be smaller than before, reducing construction costs and
heating expenses. The compact structure of SMARTON®
allows for maximum use of floor space.
SMARTON® is designed with
environmental responsibility in mind. Braking energy is
fed back into the power grid, reducing energy
consumption and energy costs by up to one third. In
addition, SMARTON® is made of 98% recyclable material.
Konecranes itself has manufactured
and installed a 40t with 2 x 25t hooks SMARTON® crane in
its East Kilbride factory. Here interested customers
can have hands on experience operating the crane and
evaluating its potential for their own requirements.
Orders have already been placed for
this new state of the art crane; Saica Paper for it’s
new Manchester Paper Mill and Siemens wind turbine plant
in Denmark to name but a few. |
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Konecranes wins Manchester Energy from Waste cranes
supply Contract
Keppel Seghers, the environmental
technology division of Keppel Integrated Engineering
Limited (KIE), has contracted Konecranes UK’s Industrial
Crane Division to supply the cranes for the £233-million
EPC contract to build an energy-from-waste CHP (combined
heat and power) plant for the Greater Manchester region.
The order totaling £4m is in two
parts. The first is for the five cranes that will
operate within the plant. Two are 15t GL Waste Grabbing
cranes, two are 6t GL Ash Handling cranes and the last
one is a 3t GL Residue Ash Handling crane. All of these
cranes will operate fully automatically on a 24/7 basis
and Konecranes engineers will have the ability to
monitor the crane operation from onboard modem links.
The second part of the order is for
2 Konecranes LV Goliaths. The waste for processing in
the plant will be delivered in containers by train, 3
trains per day initially then up to 5 train loads per
day later as the plant gradually reaches it’s optimum
performance. The two 25t goliath cranes, having a span
of 23 metres will unload the containers from the trains
onto trucks or to storage, then, from the storage area
to the trucks later, as demand requires. Then, after the
trucks have been taken to the waste pit and emptied they
are returned to the cranes where they are then loaded
back on the trains. The cranes are
equipped to accept a 6Kva High Tension power supply,
this high voltage is then fed into an HT transformer on
each crane via a motorized cable drum, where we step it
down to 415v then it goes to our control system to power
the crane motions. The cranes have KONECRANES DynA
Inverter control on all motions + ESR (Extended speed
range) on the hoist plus DynAReg Network braking where
we take the energy normally lost in resistance banks
during the lowering motion and feed it back into the
network/grid to reduce running costs and conserve energy
and KONECRANES unique DynAPilot control for anti-sway
where load stability is controlled and monitored without
operator intervention.
All electrical
control panels are housed in air conditioned E-houses,
in a separate control room for the automated cranes and
locally mounted on the goliath cranes, allowing good
access for maintenance and service whatever the weather
or environmental conditions at the time. The cranes have
condition monitoring, PLC control, overload protection,
festooned cross crane cables.
The cranes will be manufactured at
Konecranes UK East Kilbride factory in Scotland and are
to be delivered in July 2011. |
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Konecranes wins contract to supply all the cranes for
the new SAICA Paper Mill in Trafford
Spanish paper and packaging group
SAICA is to invest £290 million to build a recycled
paper mill in Trafford, near Manchester where
construction work has started at the 40-acre Partington
Wharfside site, which is bounded by the Manchester Ship
Canal to the northwest and the A6144 Manchester Road to
the east.
Konecranes UK Industrial Cranes
Division is to supply 8 cranes and two specialist
lifting beams to the project. The 100t Wet End SMT
crane will have 50t/100t/50t trolleys plus an 8t hoist
working at 26.3 metre span and will operate alongside
the Dry End crane which is the main production crane in
a paper mill.
The Dry End crane is to have two
50tonne trolleys operating on a 100t bridge along with
two 8t auxiliary hoists. The other six cranes ordered
are all CXTD Double Girder models ranging from 10t to
80t capacities operating on varying rail spans. All
will be fitted with Konecranes state-of-the-art
technology, including DynAMove variable speed on cross
and long travel motions and DynAHoist variable speed
control on the hoist. Other features include Konecranes
Remox Radio control and ControlPro Safety and a
performance control unit that extend the crane’s life,
enhance performance and safety and ensures that
maintenance requirements are scheduled to suit actual
usage, and unscheduled shutdowns are avoided.
The large wet and dry end cranes
will also have KONECRANES DynA
Inverter on all motions + ESR (Extended speed range) on
the hoist plus DynAReg Network braking where we take the
energy normally lost in resistance banks during the
lowering motion and feed it back into the network/grid
to reduce running costs and conserve energy and
KONECRANES unique DynAPilot control for anti-sway where
load stability is controlled and monitored without
operator intervention.
The contract is worth 1.65m Euros
and the cranes will be manufactured at Konecranes UK -
East Kilbride factory in Scotland and are to be
delivered in November this year. |
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Rok adds to original Konecranes order for Argyll Turbine
project
Inverness builder Rok has ordered a
further crane from Konecranes UK for the construction
project for Argyll-based wind turbine manufacturer
Welcon Towers at Machrihanish-Scotland.
Working for Welcon, who took over
the factory from Vestas in March 2009, Rok is building a
manufacturing facility and paint shop for the production
of off-shore turbine towers and is roughly at the half
way point in the contract.
The original order at the end of
last year was for five CXTD double girder cranes, one
35t, two 75t, one 25t operating at 35 metres span and an
80t crane at 8 metres span. Rok has now ordered another
CXTD model with a 30t capacity.
All cranes will have Konecranes
state of the art technology components including
KONECRANES DynA inverter variable speed control on all
motions, Konecranes REMOX radio controls, ControlPro
condition monitoring on each hoist, festoon cross crane
cabling, hoist and lower limit switches and direction
limit switches on all crane motions. There will
be anti-collision between cranes on common runways. The
cranes are being manufactured in Konecranes UK facility
at East Kilbride.
The completed order will be
delivered in June 2010.
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Two Goliaths delivered and installed at the Riverside
Resource Recovery Ltd, Energy from Waste Facility
Project at Belvedere, London
Two specialist goliath cranes were
designed and built by KONECRANES UK for Costain Ltd for
the Riverside Resource Recovery Ltd, Energy from Waste
Facility Project at Belvedere, London. A further four
specialist cranes are also being delivered to Von Roll
for waste and ash/residue handling along with four
standard cranes and numerous hoists
The two Goliaths are operating on the newly custom built
quay and the other process cranes are automated waste
and ash/residue handling cranes for operation inside the
waste facility.
The Goliaths
are
25t capacity (under the spreader frame) cranes, used for
handling 20’ loaded and unloaded waste containers from
barges on the Thames where the containers are then moved
in and out of the main waste building to be emptied of
waste into a reception pit and is then handled by the
KONECRANES automated waste handling cranes to feed the
incinerator to be ignited for creating heat through a
boiler to create steam to power the generator. These
cranes are rated for near continuous duty at A8/M8
classification.
Delivery of the Goliath cranes
required specialist planning and logistics due to their
size and weight and involved shipping the massive beams
by barge from the north side of Thames (Tilbury) to the
project location due to the access roads not being
suitable for the 40m long girders.
This planning also involved special
preparation on the quay for a 250t mobile crane where
special mats were constructed to spread the load across
the main quay strength points. The mobile crane had to
be reduced in weight by taking off all ballast and fly
jib to reduce the axle load on the main link bridge onto
the jetty, then once the mobile crane was on the quay
the ballast was delivered by truck and re-assembled to
the mobile crane.
In readiness for the beams, the huge legs of the Goliath
cranes were erected into position and held in place by
heavily weighted anchors and fixed stays from the quay
floor. Due to water on both sides of the quay fixed
stays are used from one side only. Thereafter, the 40m
long crane beams were raised by mobile crane into
position and assembled to the legs.
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First two beams arriving by barge
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In readiness for the beams, the huge legs of the Goliath cranes were erected into position and held in place by heavily weighted anchors and fixed sta
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40m long crane beams were raised by mobile crane into position and assembled to the legs.
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The cranes are 10m span with 2 x 11.5m effective cantilevers on either side to allow picking and dropping of containers to any side of the jetty
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The cranes are equipped for a 6Kva High Tension power
supply, this high voltage is then fed into an HT
transformer on each crane via a motorized cable drum,
where we step it down to 415v then it goes to our
control system to power the crane motions. The cranes
have KONECRANES DynA Inverter on all motions + ESR
(Extended speed range) on the hoist plus DynAReg Network
braking where we take the energy normally lost in
resistance banks during the lowering motion and feed it
back into the network/grid to reduce running costs and
conserve energy and KONECRANES unique DynAPilot control
for anti-sway where the load stability is controlled and
monitored without operator intervention.
All electrical control panels are housed in an air
conditioned E-house mounted on the cranes, allowing good
access for maintenance and service whatever the weather.
The cranes have condition monitoring, PLC control;
overload protection, festooned cross crane cables, top
mounted maintenance crane that is permanently positioned
across the girders where the trolley can be positioned
under the maintenance crane for quick and easy repairs.
The cranes have air conditioned cabins which travel with
the main trolley allowing the operator full visibility
over the rotational spreader frame for attaching and
unlatching containers on the barges and delivery trucks.
The cranes are 10m span with 2 x 11.5m effective
cantilevers on either side to allow picking and dropping
of containers to any side of the jetty.
Other features are: automatic storm locks, wind speed
indication, aircraft warning lights (cranes are close to
London City airport), river navigation lights, lightning
conductors, stainless steel machinery/motor guards,
heavy duty paint system giving a C5 paint finish for 15
years lifetime, heavy duty galvanized cable trays,
stainless steel cables ties with plastic coating,
galvanized stairs and walkways, true vertical lifting,
access lighting, emergency escape harness for the
drivers, hydraulic end of travel and traverse buffers,
anti-collision between cranes, end of travel and cross
travel limit switches, main hoist service and ultimate
limit switches, slack rope supervision, grouped
lubrication points on each side of the crane and the
trolley, travel and manual warning alarms (horns), and
encoders on each motion for positioning.
Cranes were ordered by Costain Construction Ltd (they
are the main civil contract actually employed by VON
ROLL who bought the waste cranes from us direct) in
January 2009 and delivered in January/February 2010. The
main Waste and Ash Cranes were ordered in September 2008
and delivery commenced in October 2009. |
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Sales and Profit on the up at KONECRANES UK Ltd
Industrial Crane Division - despite some industry
downturns
East Kilbride based overhead crane manufacturer
KONECRANES UK Ltd – Industrial Crane Division finished
2009 on a high with turnover up 10% on 2008, increased
profit as a % of sales and has started 2010 with its
order book pretty well full against the company’s
current manufacturing capacity.
Despite the recent downturn in many UK sectors, Gordon
Adie – Director of the Industrial Crane division
commented on performance, “Our programme of investment
over the past few years meant that we have been able to
take advantage of the opportunities in the growth
sectors of waste handling, waste to energy and renewable
energy as a whole. Our profitability in 2009 was
especially significant for our Process Cranes
operation. Now that the weather has improved from the
terrible conditions at the end of the year and into 2009
we have been able to catch up on the delivery backlog
and clear the factory for urgent orders.”
During 2009 the company continued its investment
programme which has ploughed nearly £2m increasing
production capability. Further investment is ongoing in
2010 with new cranes being installed in April.
The performance of
KONECRANES UK Industrial Crane Division bucks the
overall trend of the Konecranes Group world wide which
reported at the beginning of this month:
Despite a slight pick-up in industrial output in the
second half of 2009, Konecranes expects the uncertainty
to continue, with no credible signs of market recovery
visible. The demand for maintenance services is expected
to remain stable or to increase gradually should
capacity utilization within customer industries continue
to improve. The demand for new equipment is expected to
remain generally on a low level, and to suffer from
overcapacity at customers. Price competition is likely
to remain. A high degree of fluctuation between quarters
may continue due to the timing of orders.
The year 2010 began with a thinner order book than
the previous year. Our forecast is that sales in 2010
will be lower than in 2009. We expect the operating
profit in 2010 to be lower than in 2009 before
restructuring costs. |
Konecranes UK WINS CO MEATH WASTE TO ENERGY CONTRACT
Konecranes UK, based in East Kilbride in Scotland, has
won the order from the INDAVER N.V. PM Group in Belgium
to supply the Waste to Energy Facility in Co. Meath
Ireland which will be managed by the local Ivander
company in Ireland. The management contractor P.M. group
in Ireland will oversee the build.
There are two Konecranes GL WTE cranes, each being 9.5
tonne capacity municipal waste handling cranes and
fitted with 6.3 cubic metre capacity grabs.
A similar Waste Crane with Grab operating at another
facility
Both cranes use Konecranes range of DynA Invertor
control on all motions and they will be 3 shift fully
automated, working on the same runway with a 26.5 metre
span, but can also be manually or semi automatic
controlled when required. The cranes will have
Konecranes DynaPilot Anti-Sway system which will
automatically dampen sway and reduce operator fatigue,
stress in structures and mechanical components, this
also allows bunker wall impacts with the grab to be
avoided, even with a grab that could be swinging whereby
the swing is taken out of the operation automatically
and thus avoiding grab damage through pit wall collision
and this removes the biggest source of downtime when
collisions occur.
Each crane has an operators chair equipped with a touch
screen monitor, these are located in a control room
supplied by the client. This allows the crane to receive
commands by simply touching the screen and also for the
operators (or those checking periodically the automated
operation) to see alarms remotely of things like
delivery truck locations, hopper levels, etc. and to
allow remote reset. Other information is also displayed
like the weight of each load, average load handling.
The crane control panels are also remotely mounted off
the cranes and are located in an E-room, supplied by the
client in the building, away from the aggressive
atmosphere of the waste pit.
The cranes are each supplied with 56 metre long travel
festoon cables, spare grapple and long travel rails.
The order will be delivered June 2010. |
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Siemens Austria awards energy cranes contract to
Konecranes UK
East Kilbride crane manufacturer
Konecranes UK, working in conjunction with Konecranes
Austrian office, has won the contract from Siemens Austria
to supply cranes for a new power plant.
A similar crane to the one currently ordered by Siemens
Austria
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The order is for two 370 tonne SMD
cranes with 25t and 2t Auxiliary hoist and two 100 tonne
SMD cranes with 3 tonne auxiliary hoists on a
monorail. The cranes will operate on a 28 metre span. REMOX
radio control with fixed pendant back up to operate at
high level will be fitted along with Konecranes
renowned state of the art crane technology components
including Konecranes DynA inverter variable speed
control on all motions, girder and trolley platforms,
ControlPro condition monitoring on each hoist, festoon
cross crane cabling, floodlights, ultimate hoist and
lower limit switches and direction limit switches on all
crane motions.
The cranes operate in 2 separate
turbine halls, each hall will have 1 x 370t and 1 x 100t
crane. To give added protection each crane has anti-collission
between the cranes to avoid collisions.
The 370 tonne crane will have a load limiter which is
linked to cross and long travel zone limit switches to
ensure the 370t load can only be lifted in designated
areas in the turbine hall. In all areas the crane is
rated for 140t loads.
The cranes will be delivered to Belgium in May/June
2010. |
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Cordeel NV orders Konecranes for new Romanian shipyard
East Kilbride based Konecranes UK has been awarded the
contract to supply two
100 tonne SMD cranes each with two 50 tonne hoists
running at 36.5 metres span to its new Romanian shipyard
project.
The cranes are fully equipped with Konecranes DynA
Invertor variable speed control systems on all motions
and are radio controlled with a master slave radio
control facility which enables one operator to control
all 4 hoists on both cranes. There is anti-collision
control between cranes and end of travel limit switches.
Each hoist has control and ultimate limit switches.
All hoists feature Konecranes ControlPro Monitoring
where the unit monitors the hoist operation, providing
overload detection, brake wear monitoring, and
calculates the crane hoist duty allowing 100% planning
of maintenance activities to suit the actual duty. The
unit also stores and records the number of cycles,
overload attempts and temperature trips.
They are also fitted with overload protection,
thermistors, ultimate limit switches on each hoist as
well as the normal operating hoist/lower limit switches,
2-step travel and traverse limit switches, along with
girder and trolley platforms, festoon cables,
floodlights, panel lighting and panel heating.
The order worth €1.4m Euros will be delivered in March. |
Konecranes UK WINS ISLE OF JERSEY WASTE TO ENERGY
CONTRACT
Konecranes UK, based in East Kilbride in Scotland, has
won the order from CNIM to supply the new States of
Jersey, Transport and Technical Services Energy from
Waste capital project with two 6 tonne municipal waste
handling cranes.
While the primary contract for the project has been
awarded to a consortium led by the French firm
Constructions Industrielles de la Méditerranée (CNIM),
the consortium also includes a joint venture between the
French company Spie Batignolles, a civil engineering
specialist, and local construction firm Camerons Limited
known as SBC (Jersey) Limited.
SBC are responsible for the construction of the main
structures including all civils works, steelworks and
the internal fit out of the buildings.
Both cranes use Konecranes range of DynA Invertor
control on all motions and they will be fully automated,
but can be manually or semi automatic controlled.
Working on a 19 metre span, the cranes will have
DynaPilot Anti-Sway system which will automatically
dampen sway and reduce operator fatigue, stress in
structures and mechanical components, this also allows
the bunker walls to be avoided, even with a grab that
could be swinging where by the swing is taken out of the
operation and thus avoiding grab damage through pit wall
collision and this is the biggest source of downtime
when collisions occur.
The cranes will have waste handling 'orange peel' grabs
and will be delivered over March and April 2010. |
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Konecranes UK WINS SMULDERS WIND TURBINE CONTRACT
Konecranes UK, based in East Kilbride in
Scotland, has won another order to supply four SMD
cranes to the Smulders Projects wind turbine base
production facility in Belgium. The previous order being
delivered in September 2009 is for 2 x 240t and 2 x 15t
cranes.
The Smulders Projects organisation has
already gained quite some experience as one of the
pioneers in the production of offshore windmill
foundations.
Working at 37.3 metre span, the 100 tonne
SMD cranes will be fully equipped with Konecranes DynA
Invertor variable speed control systems on all motions
and are Konecranes REMOX radio controlled with a master
slave radio control facility which enables one operator
to control all 1 a pair of cranes.
All hoists feature Konecranes ControlPro
Monitoring where the unit monitors the hoist operation,
providing overload detection, brake wear monitoring, and
calculates the crane hoist duty allowing 100% planning
of maintenance activities to suit the actual duty. The
unit also stores and records the number of cycles,
overload attempts and temperature trips.
They are also fitted with overload
protection, thermistors, ultimate limit switches on each
hoist as well as the normal operating hoist/lower limit
switches, 2-step travel and traverse limit switches,
along with girder and trolley platforms, festoon cables,
floodlights, panel lighting and panel heating.
The contract worth Euros 1.5m will be
delivered during December this year and January 2010. |
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