CONDRA WINS NAMAKWA SANDS CRANE ORDER
Tronox Mineral Sands has ordered a 35/12,5-ton Condra crane for mill maintenance at the Namakwa Sands East OFS Project, Brand-se-Baai, 385 kilometres…
BOATBUILDING CRANE SETS NEW RECORD FOR CAPE COMPANY
BB Cranes is to manufacture its first 30-metre-span overhead crane, a record for this Cape Town-based company and the direct result of…
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…