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Siemens orders KONECRANES for France and Netherlands
Power projects 06/08
Weatherford EC awards Cyprus cranes supply contract to
KONECRANES UK 06/08
Four more KONECRANES cranes ordered for Allerton
Engineering 06/08
Two cranes from KONECRANES UK ordered for El Sewedy
Transformers in Egypt 06/08
Babcok Marine awards Rosyth new cranes contract to
KONECRANES UK 06/08
Alcoa Fjarðaál expands with another crane from
KONECRANES UK 06/08
KONECRANES UK reported record profits for
2007 02/08
KONECRANES COIL LIFTING CRANES ORDERED FOR SCHAVEMAKER
LOGISTICS AND LAURA METAAL HOLDING B.V. IN HOLLAND 02/08
KONECRANES UK WINS UPM KYMMENE IRVINE CRANE CONTRACT
02/08
KONECRANES UK TO SUPPLY CRANE TO McHALE
PLANT IN IRELAND 02/08
KONECRANES UK TO MODERNISE CLIFF HYDRO POWER STATION
TURBINE CRANE 02/08
KONECRANES UK WINS KUWAIT AZ ZOUR POWER
PLANT EXTENSION CONTRACT 01/08
SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF BAE
SYSTEMS KONECRANES UK CONTRACT 10/07
KONECRANES UK TO MODERNISE
MONEYPOINT POWER STATION TURBINE CRANE 10/07
CORUS UK ORDERS KONECRANES FOR PORT TALBOT AND
SCUNTHORPE 10/07
KONECRANESUK WINS SECOND CLEVELAND WASTE
TO ENERGY CONTRACT 08/07
20 TONNE MAGNET FITTED KONECRANE ORDERED FOR IHC
HOLLAND'S DREDGER BUILDING YARD 08/07
KONECRANES UK GOLIATH FOR INTERGEN'S
CORYTON ENERGY 08/07
KONECRANES UK WINS AYLESFORD NEWSPRINT CONTRACT 08/07 |
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Siemens orders KONECRANES for France and Netherlands
Power projects
East Kilbride based KONECRANES UK has been awarded two
contracts by Siemens AG to supply three identical cranes
for two combined cycle gas turbine plants with an
aggregate capacity of 860MW on its Emile Huchet site in
France and Rijnmond II, a turnkey combined cycle power
plant located in the Netherlands. The French plant
operator is Spanish energy giant Endesa and the
Netherlands is InterGen.
The cranes for these contracts are three off 370/20/2
tonne SMD at 28 metres span. KONECRANES UK will deliver
and erect the two French destined cranes and the one for
Rijnmond II station is to be erected by KONECRANES local
service organisation.
The cranes are fully equipped with KONECRANES DynA
Invertor variable speed control on all motions and are
radio controlled.
All hoists feature KONECRANES ControlPro Monitors 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 limits on each hoist as well as
the normal operating limit switches, travel and traverse
limit switches, along with girder and trolley platforms,
festoon cables, floodlights, panel lighting and panel
heating.
The combined contracts’ value is £1.775m
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A similar SMD crane to the ones bound for Emile Huchet
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Weatherford EC awards Cyprus cranes supply contract to
KONECRANES UK
East Kilbride based KONECRANES UK has been awarded the
contract to supply six industrial cranes by Weatherford
EC for a project in Cyprus.
The cranes will be 2 x 5 tonne and 4 x 3.2 tonne CXT
single girder models on 23metre spans. All will be
pendant controlled and will feature some of KONECRANES
renowned state of the art crane technology components
including anti-collision, ControlPro condition
monitoring, and DynA Invertor variable speed control
systems on cross and long travel motions and the hoists
will have 2 speed control.
The contract worth £131k will be delivered and erected
in July 08. |
Four more KONECRANES cranes ordered for Allerton
Engineering
East Kilbride crane manufacturer KONECRANES UK has won
the contract to supply a further 4 cranes for the new
Allerton Engineering fabrication facility at North
Allerton in North Yorkshire who previously took delivery
of 10 KONECRANES in 2004.
The new contract is for 1 x 15 tonne CXTD, 2 x 10 tonne
CXTS and a 5 tonne CXTS models.
Each crane will have KONECR5ANES DynADrive inverters
variable speed on cross and long travel motions and 2
speed hoists. They will have festooned long and cross
travel conductors with ControlPro hoist monitors fitted
along with motion limit switches, ultimate limit
switches and all are KONECRANES Remox radio controlled
with back-up pendants.
The contract worth £65k will be delivered in July. |
Two cranes from KONECRANES UK ordered for El Sewedy
Transformers in Egypt
East Kilbride crane manufacturer KONECRANES UK has won
the contract to supply two KONECRANES SMD Spacemaker
cranes to the new El Sewedy Transformer factory in
Egypt.
The order is for the supply of 2 x 150/32 tonne
KONECRANES SMD Spacemaker double girder cranes with 30
metre span. They will have a number of KONECRANES state
of the art technical specifications. These include: air
conditioned cabin and radio control; DynAHoist; DynAC
travel and traverse KONECRANES Inverter controls.
Additionally they will have KONECRANES ControlPro
Condition monitors for ease of maintenance planning.
Other features include festoon cross crane cables,
platforms on girder and trolley, upper and lower limit
switches, cross and long travel limit switches and
anti-collision sensing between cranes
The contract worth in the region of £929k will be
delivered in November. |
Babcok Marine awards Rosyth new cranes contract to
KONECRANES UK
East Kilbride based KONECRANES UK has won the contract
to supply 10 x 25 tonne CXTD cranes for Babcock Marine’s
Rosyth facility where they will replace old cranes in 5
of the workshops.
With 16.45 metre spans the cranes 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 performance control unit that
extends the crane's life, enhances performance and
safety and ensures that maintenance requirements are
scheduled to suit actual usage, and unscheduled
shutdowns are avoided.
The crane will be delivered and installed in September. |
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Alcoa Fjarðaál expands with another crane from
KONECRANES UK
East Kilbride crane manufacturer KONECRANES UK has won a
contract from Alcoa Fjarðaál, Iceland, to supply another
crane for its expanding aluminium smelter.
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The crane is a 32 tonne hot metal open
winch model with twin 32 tonne hooks. It will be radio
controlled and will feature some of KONECRANES renowned
state of the art crane technology components including
platforms, ControlPro condition monitoring, festoon
cabling, floodlights and DynA Invertor variable speed
control systems on cross and long travel motions. The
panel will be air conditioned and the crane components
will be rated to cater for heat and to cope with the
working environment.
The hooks will have extremely accurate loading weighing
attached with direct radio link to the clients mill wide
operating system.
The contract worth £362k will be delivered in December. |
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KONECRANES UK reported record profits for 2007
KONECRANES UK reported record profits for 2007 and
promised that the good times are continuing to roll at
the end of a bumper year for the East Kilbride based
overhead crane manufacturer.
The company’s total orders received during the year are
the highest ever and well ahead of the target for the
period. Its invoiced sales were on target and 2008 has
started with a very healthy backlog with more than 50%
of projected turnover already to hand.
Managing Director Gordon Adie said the company would
probably continue with its programme of investment. "We
finished the year having invested over £1/2 million in
our East Kilbride offices and factory with new computer
design capabilities and increased capacity in the
factory," he said.
The company’s profitability has undoubtedly enjoyed the
investment programme having finished the year well ahead
of target.
The sectors that contributed most to the year’s turnover
were Power, Waste to Energy and general industry where
KONECRANES UK’s larger heavy duty cranes excel. The
smaller Standard crane market held its own with little
growth on the previous year. |
KONECRANES COIL LIFTING CRANES ORDERED FOR SCHAVEMAKER
LOGISTICS AND LAURA METAAL HOLDING B.V. IN HOLLAND
East Kilbride crane manufacturer, KONECRANES UK, has won
two contracts to supply 3 of its SMD 40 tonne coil
lifting cranes to customers in Holland.
One crane is going to Schavemaker Logistics, a division
of the Schavemaker Group and the other two are ordered
by Laura Metaal Holdings B.V.
The cranes will have a 28 metre spans carrying a
KONECRANES SM Spacemaker winch trolley, specially
designed to lift steel coils using lifting tongs, with a
total weight up to 35 tonne.
The SMD crane is a showpiece of KONECRANES
state-of-the-art inverter technology with KONECRANES
DynAHoist inverter control with ESR (Extended Speed
Range) and KONECRANES DynAC travel and traverse
inverters, plus Remox radio control, condition
monitoring, long travel conductors, girder and trolley
platforms, festoon cables and automated
controls.
The orders are worth in excess of *1,1m Laura Metaal
Holdings B.V. will take delivery in May and Schavemaker
Logistics in June. |
KONECRANES UK WINS UPM KYMMENE IRVINE CRANE CONTRACT
UPM Kymmene, one of the world's leading producers of
printing papers, has awarded East Kilbride crane
manufacturer KONECRANES UK the contract to supply a
25t/5t CXT double girder crane to its Caledonian Paper
Mill in Irvine in Scotland.
The original cranes in the this paper mil were delivered
by
J.H.Carruthers, (now KONECRANES UK) Ltd.
The 16 metre span crane will be fitted with KONECRANES
state-of-the-art technology, including DynADrive
variable speed on cross and long travel motions and 2
speed hoist. Other features include KONECRANES Remox
Radio control and ControlPro Safety and performance
control unit that extends
the crane's life, enhances performance and safety and
ensures that maintenance requirements are scheduled to
suit actual usage, and unscheduled shutdowns are
avoided.
The contract worth £62.5k will be delivered in March. |
KONECRANES UK TO SUPPLY CRANE TO McHALE PLANT IN IRELAND
East Kilbride crane manufacturer KONECRANES UK has won
the contract to supply a 30 tonne CXT double girder
crane to McHale Plant Sales, the sole distributor of
Komatsu in Ireland.
The company is based both in Birdhill, Co. Tipperary and
Greenogue Industrial Estate, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin and
it is the Dublin location that will have the new crane
installed.
The 24 metre span crane will be fitted with KONECRANES
state-of-the-art technology, including DynADrive
variable speed on cross and long travel motions and 2
speed hoist. Other features include KONECRANES Remox
Radio control and ControlPro Safety and performance
control unit that extends
the crane's life, enhances performance and safety and
ensures that maintenance requirements are scheduled to
suit actual usage, and unscheduled shutdowns are
avoided.
The contract worth £64k will be delivered this month. |
KONECRANES UK TO MODERNISE CLIFF HYDRO POWER STATION
TURBINE CRANE
East Kilbride crane manufacturer KONECRANES UK has won a
modernisation contract from ESB, the Irish Electricity
Supply Board. The modernisation team is to upgrade the
power house crane in the Cliff Hydro-Electric Power
Station on the River Earn in Co Donegal.
The 90 tonne crane will have a new trolley fitted and
will be equipped with state of the art KONECRANES DynAC
Inverter controls on the cross and travel, and at the
same time the hoist will be upgraded to KONECRANES
DynAHoist inverter control, giving the operators the
benefit of precise and variable speed operation.
The contract worth in £287k and will be carried out in
July this year. |
KONECRANES UK WINS KUWAIT AZ ZOUR POWER PLANT EXTENSION
CONTRACT
East Kilbride based KONECRANES UK has won the Siemens AG
contract to supply two cranes for the Az Zour gas
turbine power plant extension in Kuwait.
The extension project was awarded by the Kuwaiti
Ministry of Energy in August 2007 to the Siemens Power
Generation Consortium. In 2005, Siemens PG had built Az
Zour as a gas turbine power plant with a capacity of
1000 megawatts. The power plant, which is located 80 km
south of Kuwait City, can be fired with either natural
gas or oil. On July 4, Siemens PG and the Kuwaiti
Ministry of Energy also signed a long-term maintenance
agreement for the gas turbine part of the plant. This is
the first time that the Kuwaiti government has awarded a
service contract for a power plant of this size. Siemens
will perform the maintenance for the eight gas turbines
for the upcoming five years and will also supply
replacement parts for the turbines and generators.
KONECRANES UK supplied twenty seven cranes for the first
phase of the Az Zour power plant and they are now
contracted to supply two 170 tonne cranes for the new
extension. The contract includes the supply of a 320
tonne lifting beam to enable tandem lifting.
The cranes will be with air conditioned control cabins
and will have DynAHoist inverters on each hoist motion
and DynAC inverters on the travel and traverse motions.
Both main and aux hoists will have True Vertical
Lifting. The cranes will have Konecranes state of the
art hi tech components fitted, including load and
condition monitoring, festoon cables, floodlights,
tandem operation of both cranes from 1 crane cabin with
feed back maonotiors ing of the "SLAVE" crane to the
"MASTER" crane, back-up rado control, tropicalised
electrics, disc brakes, limit switches on all motions
and heaters in panels, motors, long travel conductors,
isolators and anti-collision.
The contract worth approx. £170k is scheduled for
delivery in July 2008. |
SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF BAE SYSTEMS KONECRANES UK
CONTRACT
KONECRANES UK who won the prestigious contract from BAE
Systems to refurbish cranes in order to meet the new
regulations required for building Britain’s new
generation of Astute class nuclear-powered submarines
successfully
completed the modernisation work at BAE System’s
Barrow-in-Furness yard in Cumbria at the end of
September.
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The refurbished cranes in operation at BAE Systems' Barrow-In-Furness yard in Cumbria
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From the left:
Jim Strathie Konecranes UK;
Ian Gowans, BAE Systems;
Graham Kirkwood, Konecranes UK and Phil Foley, BAE
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Astute Class Submarine
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Work on this project – KONECRANES Uk’s biggest single
refurbishment contract in the UK commenced with the
design phase in summer 2004. Manufacturing started
during 2005. The project was extended from its original
2006
completion date to 2007 due to several requested changes
and further improvement requirements from the original
specification.
The modernisation work was necessary in order to meet
the updated stringent safety requirements for nuclear
related
facilities. The original cranes were supplied in 1984 by
J.H.Carruthers, now part of KONECRANES UK.
With the ongoing changes and alterations to
specifications, close co-operation was essential and Jim
Strathie,
Konecranes Senior Project Engineer in charge of the
project spent four days a week in Barrow as part of the
continual
monitoring process. This close cooperation between BAE
Systems and KONECRANES UK was critical in a project of
this magnitude.
On completion of the project, Steve Robson, Site Project
Manager for BAE Systems Submarine Solutions in Barrow
said "This project has been a superb example of
teamworking with both Konecranes and BAE Systems
delivering a
very complex project at a time when the Astute contract
was at a critical stage in the build programme. In
recognition,
the team were recently awarded an internal BAE Systems
Chairman’s Bronze Award for the teamworking approach to
this project". Ian Gowans, BAE Systems’ Design Authority
Manager at Barrow said, “I was impressed by the spirit
in
which Konecranes entered and completed the contract. The
quality of the modernised cranes is excellent.”
Phil Foley, BAE Systems’ Cranes Safety Case and Design
Manager at Barrow, commented that the success of the
project was due in no small measure to the positive
attitude demonstrated by Konecranes personnel Graham
Kirkwood Modernisation Group Manager and Jim Strathie.
KONECRANES UK’s managing director Gordon Adie said, “I
am delighted with the team. They have worked to the
highest standards, more than coped with required changes
and successfully handed over our biggest single
refurbishment contract order in the UK.” |
KONECRANES UK TO MODERNISE MONEYPOINT POWER STATION
TURBINE CRANE
East Kilbride crane manufacturer KONECRANES UK has won a
modernisation contract from ESB, the Irish Electricity
Supply Board. The modernisation team is to upgrade the
power house crane in Moneypoint Power Station, Ireland's
biggest electricity generation facility.
The crane will be equipped with state of the art DynAC
Inverter control on the hoist and cross and travel, and
at the
same time the long travel will be upgraded to DynAC
inverter control, giving the operators the benefit of
precise and
variable speed operation.
The contract worth in £130k and will be carried out in
December this year. |
CORUS UK ORDERS KONECRANES FOR PORT TALBOT AND
SCUNTHORPE
East Kilbride crane manufacturer KONECRANES UK has won
the contract to supply CORUS with two KONECRANES
SMD Spacemaker cranes for its Port Talbot and Scunthorpe
facilities.
The order is for the supply of two 25 tonne KONECRANES
SMD Spacemaker double girder cranes; one with a 24 metre
metre span and the other at 16 metres. They will have a
number of KONECRANES state of the art technical
specifications. These include: radio control; DynAHoist;
DynAC travel and traverse KONECRANES Inverter controls
along with KONECRANES ControlPro Condition monitor for
ease of maintenance.
Other features include festoon cross crane cables,
platforms on girder and trolley, upper and lower limit
switches,
cross and long travel limit switches
The combined contract worth in the region of £270k will
be delivered in December. |
KONECRANESUK WINS SECOND CLEVELAND WASTE TO ENERGY
CONTRACT
KONECRANES UK have won a second contract from
Switzerland based Von Roll for the SITA project at
Cleveland Waste, Middlesbrough.
KONECRANES UK, based in East Kilbride in Scotland,
will supply two cranes to operate on the Konecranes 1995
installed rails; one 8 tonne GL9 unit with waste
handling 'orange peel' grabs and the other a 5.5 tonne
GL7 crane that will lift the slag with a clamshell grab
which will increase the site's waste handling capacity.
As with the previously supplied Konecranes, the 8 tonne
crane will dig, mix and load general household waste
into a furnace hopper that will burn the waste to create
steam that in turn will turn a turbine to create energy
- which is sold into the national grid and the 5.5 tonne
crane will handle the after burn residue.
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.
The contract will be delivered by the end of 2007 and
the cranes will be commissioned during March 2008. |
20 TONNE MAGNET FITTED KONECRANE ORDERED FOR IHC
HOLLAND'S DREDGER BUILDING YARD
East Kilbride based KONECRANES UK has won the contract
from the Metalix Group to supply a 20 tonne crane for
group member IHC Holland.
IHC Holland is the world's market leader in the design,
fabrication and supply of equipment and services for the
dredging and alluvial mining industries and the crane
ordered from KONECRANES UK will operate at one of the
company's fabrication yards in the Netherlands.
The crane will be fitted with KONECRANES
state-of-the-art technology, including DynAC variable
speed on cross and long travel motions and
DynAHoist variable speed hoist. Other features include
KONECRANES Remox Radio control and ControlPro Safety and
performance control unit that extends the crane's life,
enhances performance and safety and ensures that
maintenance requirements are scheduled to suit actual
usage, and unscheduled shutdowns are avoided. The crane
has anti-collision systems with the existing operational
crane at the yard and girder and trolley platforms,
festoon cables and will be fitted with the customers own
magnet controls.
The contract worth in excess of £425k will be delivered
in December this year. |
KONECRANES UK GOLIATH FOR INTERGEN'S CORYTON ENERGY
Coryton Energy of Standford-Le-Hope in Essex has ordered
a 125/50 tonne short leg Goliath crane from East
Kilbride based KONECRANES UK.
The crane, with a 28.25 metre span will work alongside a
140 tonne Goliath crane which is being upgraded by
KONECRANE UK's modernisation team.
The new Goliath will be fitted with KONECRANES DynA
inverter drives on all motions and ControlPro condition
monitoring, platforms and festoon cables. There will be
parking shelters for the hoist and a weather enclosure
Electrical Contactor House which will considerably
reduce the downtime of the crane in inclement weather.
The new crane, worth around £600k will be delivered by
1st March 2008 |
KONECRANES UK WINS AYLESFORD NEWSPRINT CONTRACT
Aylesford Newsprint, an SCA Forest Products and Mondi
company has awarded East Kilbride crane manufacturer
KONECRANES UK the contract to supply an additional
trolley for its Dry End PM14 crane in operation at its
Kent paper mill.
The existing crane supplied by KONECRANES UK in 1996, is
an 86 tonne SMD crane with two 43 tonne SM winches to
which a new 86 tonne SMD winch is being added between
the original SM hoists.
The work will be completed in October this year.
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