Year: 2007

Installation of the AEP Kanawha River Plant 1500 Series E-Crane

Our on-site E-Crane® senior erection supervisor Steve Suter reports: “This is what we all at the AEP Kanawha River Plant have been striving for, working with a great group of people and working for a common goal to be the best ! It has rained nearly every day. We lost 1 day to high winds 40-50mph and 1 day to torrential down pours. But still found little things to do. We just finished the E-Crane® On Site Testing&Tuning program working closely together with AEP electrical engineer Jim Corey, so we are able to add another notch to our guns! With Kanawha River being the 5th E-Crane® Installation...

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Tombigbee River Power Plant To Get E-Crane®

Black & Veatch, a leading engineering and construction company, recently awarded E-Crane International- USA the major portion of a contract to upgrade material handling at one of Alabama Electric Cooperative’s power plants. The generating station, known as Charles R. Lowman Power Plant, is on the Tombigbee River near Leroy, Ala. Designed by Kent Hoffmeister of Global Marine Technologies, the floating material handling system will consist of a 2000 series, model 18264 E-Crane®, a receiving hopper and a feeder; all mounted on a 175 by 50-foot deck barge. It will receive coal and...

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River Metals Recycling E-Crane Installation… feedback from our on-site erection team

At E-Crane we fully understand that the most important factor in the productivity of any machine is the skilled operator! Skilled operators combine qualities such as: excellent visionmechanical knowledgegood sense of balanceability to judge distances and dimensionsability to concentrate for long periods of timeunderstanding of computerized machinerywillingness to update skills and acquire new knowledge. Every E-Crane installation is followed by on-site training of the operators and maintenance staff by our erection supervisors and this in close cooperation with the on-site management...

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New Winchester golf news

NEW WINCHESTER – New Winchester golf course recently completed its club champion- ship Mark Osborne won the championship flight and Rick Leppert was runner-up. Mike Kackameyer won the A flight with Guy Benedict second. Kathy Dyer won the women’s championship flight over Ruthie Robinson. The A flight champion was Ruthie Parker, with Judi Cripple runner-up. Saturday will be the 2nd Annual Big Spender open. The 18-hole event will have a $50 entry fee. The OSU game will be shown on the course’s big screen TV. Mark Osborne, PE ECI-USA said “I won my final match in...

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EMM: versatile, user-friendly and extremely reliable crane control system

E-Crane provides state-of-the-art technology working with you and for you! The new B-Series E-Cranes combine over twenty-five years of experience in heavy duty bulk material handling with the performance of the mobile CAN-bus technology. With the introduction of this Electronic Machine Management-system (EMM) E-Crane has created a versatile, user-friendly and extremely reliable crane control system. With the optional communications module our engineers can trouble shoot and solve problems from behind their computer. Science fiction… ? No, check out the case study below. Antwerp,...

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AEP representatives inspect new 1500B Series E-Crane

E-Crane Worldwide recognizes that the Factory Acceptance and Testing (FAT) is another important phase in our quality assurance program. We strongly believe that intensive factory acceptance tests: reduce the time for the erection of the crane at its final destinationreduce the costs for assembly, installation and tuningimprove the overall quality of our products After the factory tests and tuning are completed our cranes are disassembled into major components/packages for shipment to its final destination. The picture above: Inspection of the E-Crane for the AEP-Kanawha project....

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Erection of Second E-Crane in Argentina Completed

With the succesful and safe completion of Phase 2 of the installation of 2 new dedicated E-Cranes®, MultiServ, the service provider for the scrap handling at Acindar, is now ready to keep scrap moving because electric arc furnace (EAF) steel mills like Acindar rely on a steady stream of baskets filled with scrap metal to be ready as feedstock every hour of every day that the mill is up and running. The construction, shipping and installation of several big cranes involves many types of professionals such as engineers, designers, welders, electricians, mechanics and so forth. The crane’s...

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E-Cranes prove efficient in bulk material handling

Over 50% of the Electric Energy consumed in the USA is generated by fossil fuel (coal) burning power plants and this is not going to change in the near future. Utility companies burning fossil fuels require a carefully blended mix of coal which is sourced from US mines as well as Latin American and international suppliers to minimize fuel expenses and in order to meet increasingly stringent emission regulations. Now these fossil fuel burning power plants also need to offload limestone for their flue gas desulphurization systems to comply with emission regulations. As most US power...

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Heavy Lifting goes on at Port Amherst

By Rick Steelhammer, Staff writer Port Amherst, just east of Charleston on the Kanawha River, may not be an Antwerp or a Hamburg, but it does occasionally handle international cargo shipments. This week, the homeport for Madison Coal & Supply’s fleet of towboats and construction barges also served as the loading area for a huge new Belgian-made crane, which will eventually offload limestone at American Electric Power’s Cardinal power plant at Brilliant, Ohio. The 173-ton crane traveled across the Atlantic on a freighter, which made its way up the St. Lawrence Seaway to Lake...

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Third E-Crane® Carinox Steelmill successfully commissioned

Charleroi, Belgium, 4th of July 2007 – E-Crane is delighted to announce that the third E-Crane® for MultiServ’s scrap catering project at the Carinox steelmill is successfully and safely installed, commissioned and put into service on July 4th, 2007. According to Mr. Cédric Le Lann from MultiServ, this is another important step for MultiServ’s services at Carinox. As the steel mill is now approaching its design capacity of one million tons of stainless steel per year, this third E-Crane® for MultiServ is the final phase of significant investments to provide efficient...

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Installation of 2 E-Cranes at MultiServ’s scrap handling steel mill in Argentina in full swing

After another 250 Km long journey by truck to their final destination in Acindar’s Villa Constitucion plant, the erection process was started. Both MultiServ and E-Crane have an experienced team on site to assure a smooth and safe installation. Mr. Francois Schaeffer (Project Manager MultiServ) and Mr. Lieven Bauwens (Managing Director E-Crane) witnessing the loading of the components at the port of Zarate. In order not to disturb the operations of the terminal and to secure a timely arrival at the jobsite, the bigger E-Crane® assembly groups (packages) were loaded during night time! First...

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