STEEL SHORTAGE A BONANZA FOR SOME
South Africa’s current steel shortage is compounding an already serious obstacle to the efficient functioning of the subcontinent’s overhead crane market: declining…
UNDERGROUND JIB CRANE WILL RECOVER SPILLED ORE
Condra has designed and manufactured a very large jib crane for bulk recovery underground of ore spilled at an unnamed mine. Delivered…
FOURTEENTH CRANE FOR BLACK MOUNTAIN ZINC
Cape Town lifting equipment company BB Cranes has secured an order for the fourteenth overhead crane to be installed at Gamsberg Zinc…
CLOSE CO-OPERATION THE KEY DURING NEW PLANT CONSTRUCTION
Paragon Steel Structures’ construction of a rubber processing factory in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands will soon involve the installation of two overhead cranes…
SUCCESS INTO AFRICA MORE LIKELY WITH OBSTACLES FACTORED IN
From a marketing perspective, Africa is often viewed as an entity: a cohesive whole to be targeted with a single, generalised approach.…
LOCAL CRANE COMPANY OVERCOMES CAR PLANT DEADLINE
HP Cranes Consulting, the Brakpan-based company specialising in tower and gantry cranes, has won the much anticipated contract to supply coil handling…
SUPER-SPAN MAINTENANCE CRANE FOR PLATINUM CONCENTRATOR
Condra has followed deliveries of customised cranes for injection-moulding and shipboard maintenance applications with a third overhead machine of unusual design, this…
OCEAN-GOING OVERHEAD TRAVELLING CRANE
Condra is to manufacture its first seagoing crane, an overhead maintenance machine with power-to-motion conversion achieved through rack-and-pinion instead of pure friction.…
YEAR PAST A GOOD ONE FOR CRANES
2020 will be remembered as a difficult year, particularly by many in South African engineering manufacturing. But there were companies that came…