POPULAR COMPONENTS
Component sales are up at crane company Condra. Managing director Marc Kleiner says pre-assembled components sold to other manufacturers now account for…
SPECIAL STEELS EXPANDS TO ROODEKOP
Special Steels, a leading national supplier of certified steel round bar, hollow bar and plate to South Africa’s engineering, mining and manufacturing…
PLATREEF SHOW-STEALER
High-capacity overhead cranes often make headline news because of impressive size and technical complexity. Their smaller and simpler cousins – workhorses of…
STEEL COMPANY CHOOSES BB CRANES
BB Cranes is to manufacture six overhead cranes for steel distributor D&E Group, for installation in new warehouses being built in Cape…
THREE-WAY COMPANY COOPERATION WINS CRANE ORDER
Rovic, a leading South African manufacturer of agricultural machinery, is to modify shopfloor workflow to cut component assembly times, improve staff safety…
SECOND CRANE FOR PULP LEADER
Condra is to manufacture a second maintenance crane for Sappi’s Saiccor Mill, at Umkomaas on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. Ordered for turbine…
Condra’s design team wins through
PROBLEM SOLVED – I Double bogeys fitted to the end-carriages of this overhead crane represent the key to a puzzle recently solved…
40 NOT OUT
A 40-ton electric overhead travelling crane manufactured and commissioned 39 years ago is being refurbished at Condra’s main factory in Germiston, just…
BUY IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE
The capital equipment buying decision carries risk. There is cost and, quite often, a deadline. The scale of financial outlay must be…
CONDRA CRANES FOR PLATFREE PGM
Condra has delivered electric hoists, two overhead cranes and a number of chain blocks to Platreef Mine, part of the Platreef PGM…