Crane & Hoist
FMGru, a leading tower crane manufacturer located in Italy, needed reliable emergency braking systems for several models of its flat top and hydraulic luffing cranes. The caliper brakes are mounted on the disc flange of the crane’s main hoist drums.
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Modern vessels are equipped with dozens of ancillary items, such as winches and loading cranes, which must all incorporate braking systems to ensure their operation is reliable and effectively controlled.
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A leading crane OEM required caliper brakes for blowout preventer (BOP) winches utilized on offshore drilling rigs. The overhead cranes raise, lower and store the large, heavy BOP stacks comprised of a series of high-pressure valves.
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A crane may not use its brakes often, but when the need arises, they must be able to operate with the complete reliability. It’s a quality that Stromag, a premier brand of Altra Industrial Motion Corp., designs into its turnkey crane braking packages. As a result, Stromag braking systems are the solution of choice for several crane original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) around the world.
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A reliable limit switch solution was needed for use on offline activity cranes (OACs) installed on oil and gas drilling rigs. Positioned away from the paths of the platform’s heavy lift cranes to avoid interference, OACs lift and rack drill pipe, tubing and casing.
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