Designing an Overhead Crane: Key Considerations
When it comes to designing an overhead crane, there are several critical factors to take into account to ensure that the crane will meet...
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How to Determine Travel and Lifting Speeds: Double Girder Top Running Cranes
The speed of trolleys and cranes depends upon the length of the runway or the size of the area covered. Generally, faster speeds are used...
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How to Determine Travel and Lifting Speeds: Single Girder Top Running Cranes
The speed of trolleys and cranes depends upon the length of the runway or the size of the area covered. Generally, faster speeds are used...
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North America's Largest Recycling Center
Crane-Tec is proud to be included in this project. Last February, Rumpke announced plans to build North America’s largest and most...
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Top Overhead Crane Questions (and answers)
With over 35 years of experience designing and installing overhead cranes in just about every industry you can imagine, we've come across...
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Workstation Cranes Make Lifting Easy
Image provided by Spanco This month, Mr. Wally teams up with our partners at Spanco to discuss the types of workstation cranes and how...
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Two Types of Double Girder Cranes
This month, Mr. Wally will review the two types of top running double girder cranes so that you can determine the best one for your...
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3 Types of Single Girder Cranes
This month, Mr. Wally will review the three types of single girder cranes so that you can determine the best one for your application. ...
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Adding the bells & whistles.
One of our most recent projects was with an international manufacturing company. We installed a 5-ton crane. And although it didn't...
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Overhead Cranes 101 - Designing an Overhead Crane System
In our latest series, Overhead Cranes 101, Mr. Wally takes us through some of the basic understandings of preparing for your next...
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Crane-Tec and General Contractors
There's nothing general about the relationship we have with General Contractors. It's consistently being a dependable resource that...
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Overhead Crane Design & Install
There's a reason our customers have been using Crane-Tec for 35+ years. Why choose Crane-Tec? We raise the customer's expectations, but...
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Working for the railroad.
Crane-Tec has a long standing reputation with the railroad industry. Most recently, we completed a project with the Norfolk Southern for...
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A customer specified crane system.
A customer specified crane system
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Precast Concrete - One Tough Application
When Crane-Tec’s long-time customer came to us with a tough application, we knew the right questions to ask. The Challenge: Provide our...
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Meeting High Expectations
One of the reasons why we have such a high rate of repeat customers is because they set out on a project with certain expectations and we...
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A More Efficient Process for Mold Changes & More
Recently we had one of our existing customers come back to us with a request for a safer, more efficient way to change molds in their...
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New ODOT Facility
When the States’ Department of Transportation needs an overhead crane system for their new vehicle maintenance facilities, they call on...
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An Installation With Challenges
Crane-Tec was challenged with replacing an existing push/pull gantry system with a new, remote controlled, free standing runway system...
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Handle With Care
Crane-Tec was called upon to furnish, install, start up and test 3-ton top running double girder cranes and runway systems. The cranes...
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