Murray Energy, the largest underground coal mining company in the United States, has recently installed a new E-Crane for handling fly ash at its facility near Moundsville, WV. Murray Energy produces about 65 million tonnes of coal annually, providing reliable electric power to many customers. The new E-Crane is barge mounted, and unloads barges of fly ash, a coal combustion byproduct. The fly ash is loaded into a specialized hopper, also mounted on ...

As everyone knows, tensions are high in the country of Venezuela due to staggering inflation, food and medicine shortages. In spite of the crisis, E-Crane likes to keep in touch with its friends and clients. Using social media, E-Crane’s Mark W. Osborne occasionally chats with Luis Mok and Enzo Carlucci (managers at the Global Venezuela bauxite unloading site on the Orinoco River). He recently told Mok ...

Stelimet is a Belgium-based, family owned company with over 80 years’ experience in ferrous and nonferrous scrap. The company, which has a long tradition of reducing CO2 emissions, through initiatives such as using waterways as much as possible, says with their new electric-powered, environmentally friendly E-Crane, they are now reducing their footprint even further. At the end of December 2016, E-Crane commissioned a new 700 Series, ...

HOFOR:  1500C Series HOFOR Copenhagen has recently installed a new E-Crane for handling biofuels.  Hofor A/S power plant Amagerværket, located near the city center of Copenhagen, Denmark, is renewing and upgrading their facilities in order to phase out coal by 2020, replacing it completely with bio mass. As part of this upgrade, Hofor is also replacing an existing 4-rope grab crane with a new E-Crane. The ...

NEW E-CRANE COMMOSSIONED FOR PERDUE AGRIBUSINESS A new 700 Series E-Crane went into service on May 11, 2018 for Perdue AgriBusiness at their Seaford Delaware river terminal. The model EH 4290 PD-E will unload soybeans and corn from barges arriving on the north bank of the Nanticoke River. The barge unloading facility is a brand new investment consisting of the dock, new receiving hopper, conveyor and ...

REPLACING ROPE CRANES A few years ago the first E-Crane was installed in Desa Muara Kaman, Kota Bangun (situated where the Kedang Kepala and Mahakam River meet). Fast forward to May 2018, and another E-Crane installation is underway near Balikpapan on the Indonesian island of Kalimantan. To see this first E-Crane in operation please check out the following link: https://youtu.be/xYJuoDe4RMs The past week was used to ...

Training, Teaching, and Developing Oneself and Others… It has been a busy week at the E-Crane Academy with two groups of new students! The first group of four were future operators who came from the company Herbosch-Kiere for their self-propelled barge, the Albatros, equipped with a 1500 Series E-Crane.  The core activities for Herbosch-Kiere include maritime construction, demolition and heavy lifting. The second group consisted of two ...