{"id":7956,"date":"2023-09-25T15:12:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.condra.co.za\/cape-town-crane-manufacturer-wins-provincial-orders\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:12:16","slug":"cape-town-crane-manufacturer-wins-provincial-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/cape-town-crane-manufacturer-wins-provincial-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"CAPE TOWN CRANE MANUFACTURER WINS PROVINCIAL ORDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"A steadily increasing order intake from general industry and consulting engineers has led BB Cranes of Cape Town to step up production to meet demand.\r\n\r\nThe upgrading of water and wastewater treatment plants in the Western and Eastern Cape is providing much of the additional business. Cranes and hoists are key to these plants, where they are installed as part of the civil works to lift and position pumps, electric motors and other machinery during construction, after which they serve in a service and maintenance role throughout the plants\u2019 working lives.\r\n\r\nBB Cranes has supplied most of the consulting firms overseeing upgrades and expansion of the Western Cape\u2019s water treatment reticulation, including the associated pump stations.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe Victoria & Alfred Waterfront\u2019s seawater desalination plant is currently our most visible involvement,\u201d said BB senior sales executive Stephen Brink Jnr. \u201cWe installed a 3,2-ton single-girder overhead crane there mid-September, also four monorail hoists with associated structures.\u201d\r\n\r\nBrink explained that design and supply of the hoists was carried out by Condra, BB Cranes\u2019 parent company in Johannesburg, with BB Cranes itself undertaking girder manufacture, crane assembly, delivery to site, installation and commissioning. BB will also supply local service support.\r\n\r\nThe seawater desalination plant at the V&A Waterfront is a privately owned project under construction by Proxa Water, a specialist water treatment company contracted to deliver a reliable supply of potable water to the precinct, replacing dependency on city dams which have in recent years been threatened by drought. The waterfront is a popular Cape Town attraction; visitor flow there is accelerating as tourism recovers from the stumble caused by Covid-19.\r\n\r\n
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BB Cranes 3,2-ton single-girder overhead crane being installed at the seawater desalination plant, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront (installation still in progress at time of photograph).<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\nProxa Water\u2019s order on BB Cranes is the company\u2019s third, following BB\u2019s supply of similar equipment to several Proxa projects outside South Africa. Proxa Water has offices throughout Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Australia, delivering turnkey water services to the regions\u2019 mining, petrochemical, food and beverage, and municipal sectors.\r\n\r\nBrink Jnr said that a bigger order for the company in terms of unit numbers was one for eight cranes and hoists recently placed by an unnamed customer, to be installed at a wastewater treatment works in the Eastern Cape. These comprise a mix of overhead machines of various designs, a jib crane, and several monorail hoists with supporting structures.\r\n\r\nBB Cranes recently delivered two other 5-ton monorail hoists to the same customer, for new MyCiTi bus depots servicing Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha, Claremont and Wynberg. \r\n\r\nIt is not only Cape Town\u2019s consulting engineers who are busy. Shipbuilders, too, have placed orders on BB Cranes to manage growing demand. Two Oceans Marine, a manufacturer of high-end custom catamarans, is building a new factory and equipping it with two identical double-girder overhead travelling cranes to lift and position boat engines and other components, as well as the completed vessels themselves.\r\n\r\nThese cranes will be fitted with dual 2,5-ton hoists from Condra’s compact SH Series. Again, overall design and the supply of the hoist units was carried out by Condra, with BB executing girder manufacture and assembly.\r\n\r\nCape Town is home to two other luxury catamaran manufacturers, both of which also have BB cranes installed in their factories. BB is keeping a close watch on an anticipated requirement for a very large machine, an 80-ton giant overhead crane needed for construction of an ultra-large catamaran with a price tag approaching R200 million, expected to be ordered soon. If secured, this will be BB\u2019s biggest ever crane installation.\r\n\r\n

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Same crane, same installation, with BB Cranes senior sales executive Stephen Brink Jnr<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\nRivergate-based BB Cranes additionally reports smaller orders that include two single-girder overhead machines supplied to a manufacturer of vehicle trailers.\r\n\r\nBrink Jnr said that the Condra subsidiary continues to benefit from reorganisation of its factory to facilitate smoother production and an easier compliance with the group\u2019s strict ISO 9000 manufacturing standard. Semi-automated welding has recently been introduced.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe are sharpening our competitive edge,\u201d said Brink. \u201cOur lead times are shorter \u2013 these days considerably less than those of our competitors \u2013 and our service is better because of spares holdings. Customers know their machines will be promptly serviced and the guarantees honoured.\u201d\r\n\r\nBrink Jnr said that BB Cranes\u2019 work to increase company competitiveness is ongoing.\r\n\r\n\u201cFor us, the pay-off is the steadily increasing number of customers placing repeat orders in spite of an influx of cheap imported product from rival firms in Gauteng. One customer was this year compelled to order a replacement crane from us because of the failure of a cheaper machine,\u201d he noted.\r\n\r\n\u201cThat failure cost the customer downtime and lost production because of a lack of spares availability. Condra spare parts are always in stock. Pay a little bit extra at the start of things, and there will always be payback in the medium term.\u201d\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A steadily increasing order intake from general industry and consulting engineers has led BB Cranes of Cape Town to step up production to meet demand. The upgrading of water and wastewater treatment plants in the Western and Eastern Cape is…","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7956","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\/7956","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}