{"id":7104,"date":"2020-12-08T06:49:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.condra.co.za\/?p=7104"},"modified":"2020-12-08T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:50:08","slug":"crane-agent-wins-condra-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/crane-agent-wins-condra-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"CRANE AGENT WINS CONDRA ORDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"North Coast Cranes & Lifting, the Richards Bay-based lifting equipment company, has won separate orders for Condra cranes to be installed in a chemical element refinery furnace and on a mining dredge.\r\n\r\nAn order for two further machines is expected.\r\n\r\nNorth Coast Cranes is Condra\u2019s Northern KwaZulu-Natal agent, with a mandate to install and commission machines as they arrive from the main Johannesburg factory, and provide scheduled maintenance and on-call service support. Annual load tests and the quarterly sling inspections required by law are also carried out.\r\n\r\n
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Condra crane with extendable boom, similar to the one recently ordered from North Coast Cranes & Lifting for a furnace application, seen here under test in Condra\u2019s Johannesburg factory.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\nThe agent has a very strong customer focus, concentrating on service and maintenance capability rather than equipment sales. All brands of lifting equipment are supported, but orders for complete cranes are usually met by Condra.\r\n\r\nThe first of the two orders just received is for a 10-ton, 6,5-metre-span Condra furnace crane. This will be a double-girder electric overhead underslung machine supporting an underslung crab and foot-mounted hoist moving between two girders arranged as an extendable boom to allow the retrieval of casting pots from an adjacent bay.\r\n\r\nLift height will be 15,2 metres, with lift speeds of up to 8 metres per minute delivered by a variable-speed drive. Further drives of the same type will achieve speeds of up to 16m\/min on the cross travel, and 30,7m\/min on the long travel. Travel on the telescopic boom will be 4,3 metres per minute.\r\n\r\nBrakes and electrical enclosures will be water-proofed to IP65 standard, with the electrical box itself being fabricated from stainless steel instead of the more common powder-coated mild steel. The electrical supply to the telescopic section will additionally be protected by a cable drag chain in place of the usual festoon system.\r\n\r\nThere will be limit switches on all motions.\r\n\r\nThe second order is for a maintenance and repair machine to be installed on a mining dredge. It will be a 10-ton, 13,5-metre span Condra portal crane of straightforward design with cantilevers to allow equipment to be lifted and lowered from adjacent vessels.\r\n\r\nThe lift height of this machine will be 12 metres. Service platforms with cat ladders and lockable gates will be fitted to legs at both ends.\r\n\r\nNorth Coast Cranes & Lifting took the orders for the two cranes in early November. Delivery is scheduled for the end of January 2021.\r\n\r\nImmediately before delivery, corrosion-resistant finishes will be applied in an environmentally-friendly emission-filtered chamber by Rust Busters, the Wadeville-based abrasives blasting and coating company. The special finish will comprise a zinc phosphate primer followed by layered two-component epoxies.\r\n\r\nThe new orders will further add to Condra\u2019s already substantial installed base of cranes in and around Richards Bay.\r\n\r\nJohannesburg-based Condra boasts a manufacturing pedigree going back 50 years, and claims the highest local content of any overhead crane supplier in the central and southern African region. This allows the company to deliver overhead cranes with the lowest possible lifetime cost, supported by a comprehensive back-up service and rapid spare parts delivery.\r\n\r\nAll Condra products are manufactured to ISO 9000 standard, with the full range of cranes and hoists covering capacities from 250 kg to 500 tons.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Coast Cranes & Lifting, the Richards Bay-based lifting equipment company, has won separate orders for Condra cranes to be installed in a chemical element refinery furnace and on a mining dredge. An order for two further machines is expected.…","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7110,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions\/7110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}