GLASGOW, W.Va. -- Kanawha River Plant is once again receiving much of its coal by barge thanks to the new E-Crane that began operation at the plant in January. From its perch atop a newly-constructed river cell, the E-Crane, or equilibrium crane, uses its large capacity bucket to move coal from barges to the plant's coal yard. The equipment replaces the plant's original crane which was ...
With ports the world over going green in a variety of ways, a 34-year-old French idea has brought balance and savings to many with the added advantage of being good for the planet. Ray Dykes explains… The concept of a balanced crane was patented in 1973 by the Seram Group of Perpignan, France, and has been often copied since. Seram remains the world’s largest maker of ...
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. The SeverCorr plant will produce 1.5 million tons annually of hot roll, hot roll P&O, cold roll and hot dip galvanized/galvanealed steels. Kinder Morgan is headquartered in Houston, TX, and is ...
E-Crane Worldwide/Indusign is a modern, state-of-the-art engineering and heavy equipment construction company, based in Adegem, Belgium. E-Crane Worldwide provides design services as well as complete machine production, installation, support and training with on-going service for the heavy equipment industry. The E-Crane series offers models with up to 49 tonnes duty cycle capacity due to their movable counterweight and fixed parallelogram linkage as well as up to ...
At this moment there is a special visitor in the port of Zeebrugge (B). The "Mama Mobokoli" is a special pontoon with a very large crane on it. The pontoon/crane are special built for the handling of bulk carriers with a max. tonnage of 25-30.000 tons. The pontoon is a second hand (built in 1981) but the crane is brand new and is installed on the ...
Jim Gutsch comments at Inauguration of Mama Mobokoli — Zeebrugge Jim Gutsch Mr. Jim Gutsch is a Senior Vice President of Engineering at Seaboard Corporation in Kansas City, Kansas. The E-Crane team worked closely with Mr. Gutsch and his project Engineer Rick Mohr during the development of the Seaboard’s Midema Midstream Transfer Facility on the Congo River in Matadi, Democratic Republic of Congo. The E-Crane Managers ...
Tailor Made Solutions The Seaboard Corporation needed a ship-to-shore solution for the discharging of Handy and Handymax vessels with ship-toship and midstream transloading capabilities of breakbulk commmodities on the Congo river in Matadi, Democratic Republic of Congo.As in many ports in Africa there are major port congestion problems. This, combined with the lack of new and reliable dockside equipment, was a major bottleneck in MIDEMA’s grain ...
E-Crane® is providing the solution to difficult problems in offloading bulk materials in seaports and river ports throughout the world. Dedicated systems for offloading coal, limestone and other bulk materials are costly, inflexible and require a dedicated infrastructure that is expensive to buy and maintain.Modified excavators converted to material handlers are another approach. But offloading facilities at seaports and river ports can be seriously hampered by ...
E-Crane International EUROPE (ECI-EUR) announced that they have moved to new offices in Oud Gastel, The Netherlands:Argon 15G4751XC Oud GastelThe NetherlandsPhone and Fax numbers will remain !
Galion, Ohio USA - E-Crane International USA (ECI-USA) officially moved from the Bucyrus, Ohio base to their new offices in Galion, Ohio. E-Crane International USA Inc. is upgrading its U.S., North and South American headquarters for sales, engineering and service of the E-Crane Equilibrium Crane. The new and modern 24,000 sq. ft. facility includes 4,000 sq. ft. of office space, overhead lift cranes and plenty of ...
