{"id":5508,"date":"2018-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/2018\/condra\/cranes-mopani-pass-r100-million-mark\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T10:36:03","slug":"cranes-mopani-pass-r100-million-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/cranes-mopani-pass-r100-million-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"CRANES AT MOPANI PASS R100-MILLION MARK"},"content":{"rendered":"A shipment of lifting equipment despatched in late August to Mopani Copper Mines has taken Condra\u2019s order intake from this company to more than R100-million.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nZambia-based Mopani placed its first order on Condra in 2012.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nComprising one electric travelling overhead crane, 38 hoists, two large and seven smaller jib cranes, the shipment is earmarked for various applications within the Mufulira and Nkana mines, and left Condra\u2019s Germiston factory by road.\r\n\r\n
\"Typical

Typical Condra Jib Crane<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWork will now begin on six further single- and double-girder overhead cranes for Nkana\u2019s synclinorium shaft, and for the concentrator plants at both mines.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCrane capacities will be between 5 tons and 10 tons, with standard lifting heights and spans of between 15 metres and 18 metres.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCondra expects to receive additional orders for as many as nine further cranes while these six are on the factory floor.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMopani Copper Mines (MCM) operates the Mufulira mine, smelter, concentrator and copper refinery on the outskirts of Mufulira, and the Nkana mine, concentrator and cobalt plant near Kitwe, both towns situated on the Copperbelt in central Zambia.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCondra\u2019s deliveries to MCM are ongoing.\u00a0 Three years ago, the company delivered two 25-ton headgear cranes to the synclinorium shaft at Nkana mine, and two 70-ton maintenance cranes for the winderhouse, the latter designed with very high lifts of over 80 metres each.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe company has manufactured several other overhead and high-lift machines for Mopani since its first delivery in 2012, and regularly supplies hoists in quantity.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nUnderpinning this successful relationship between customer and supplier is Condra\u2019s very tight focus on product quality and reliability.\u00a0 Manufacture is carried out to the ISO 9000 and GOST standards, and the company additionally complies with the environmental and health and safety standards of ISO 14000 and ISO 18000.\r\n\r\n

\"Crab-Mounted

Crab-Mounted Condra Hoist<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCranes are custom designed and assembled from hoists, drives, end\u2011carriages, brakes, gearboxes and some 250 other sub-assemblies all manufactured by Condra.\u00a0 Two hoist product lines are manufactured in a number of standard models suited to most mining and industrial applications, from 1 to 500 tons.\u00a0 Motors are bought from external suppliers in Germany.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe company offers transport, installation and commissioning as complementary services.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCommenting on the clutch of recent orders from Mopani Copper Mines, Condra\u2019s managing director Marc Kleiner said that this customer had named reliability and prompt service as the main reasons for awarding the contracts to Condra.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nService for Zambia\u2019s Copperbelt is supplied by Kitwe-based agent EC Mining, which holds stocks of Condra spares.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nKleiner explained that his company\u2019s northern hemisphere competitors generally suffered from the handicap of long lead times on spares ordered from factories based abroad.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u201cMining companies need effective production levels, and this productivity is dependent on the reliability of all mining machinery and lifting equipment.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u201cIt is a fact that the ability of some of our competitors to respond to needs and realities of lifting equipment customers on the African continent lags behind that of Condra,\u201d Kleiner said.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nOf the shipment just despatched to Mopani Copper Mines, high lifts of 30 metres on some of the hoists were exceeded by a very high lift of 48 metres on one of the jib cranes.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWalkways on the overhead crane were completed with steel grating in place of the normal chequer plate, and weld seams on all machines were inspected for quality and integrity to counter the harsh, corrosive environment characteristic of Copperbelt mining.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nProtective paint finishes in light green were applied to customer specification.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shipment of lifting equipment despatched in late August to Mopani Copper Mines has taken Condra\u2019s order intake from this company to more than R100-million.   Zambia-based Mopani placed its first order on Condra in 2012.   Comprising one electric…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktuelles","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5541,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions\/5541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}