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…
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…
FROM CONCRETE SLAB TO WORKING CRANE
Lifting equipment company Condra is to manage as a turnkey project the manufacture of a 70/5-ton electric overhead travelling factory crane and…
CRANE AGENT WINS CONDRA ORDERS
North Coast Cranes & Lifting, the Richards Bay-based lifting equipment company, has won separate orders for Condra cranes to be installed in…