Case Studies

Description of the E-Crane Murray Energy, the largest underground coal mining company in the United States, has recently installed a new E-Crane for  handling fly ash at their facility near Moundsville, WV. Murray Energy produces about 65 million tons of coal annually,  providing reliable electric power to many customers. The new E-Crane is barge mounted, and unloads barges of fly ash, a coal  combustion byproduct. The fly ash is loaded into a specialized hopper, also mounted on the barge alongside the E-Crane. The  material is then conveyed to a truck loading station. Murray Energy chose the E-Crane solution for its […]

Description of the E-Crane In 2002 and 2003, two E-Cranes were installed at Global Materials Services in Venezuela. Both material handling E-Cranes are installed on a floating platform on mile 182 of the Orinoco River in Puerto Ordaz. The E-Cranes unload barges of bauxite into two hoppers also mounted on the floating platform. Global Materials Services is contracted by the bauxilum company, which mines bauxite in central Venezuela. The bauxite is loaded into barges and shipped 350 miles downstream to Puerto Ordaz where the E-Cranes offload the material. This raw material is processed into alumina, the first step in the […]

Description of the E-Crane After three years of successful operation of their 1500 Series barge mounted E-Crane®, Mulzer Crushed Stone ordered their second barge mounted E-Crane® in 2014 for their Shamblin Stone operation in Dunbar, WV. This machine is used for unloading barges of aggregate. The E-Crane® unloads the material directly into a hopper, located on an adjacent barge to the E-Crane® barge. Because the E-Crane® is barge mounted, Mulzer has the flexibility to transport the entire barge unloading system to wherever they need to perform barge unloading operations. The machine has been performing well since installation in 2015, and […]

Description of the E-Crane Amaggi, a leading company in the Brazilian agricultural industry, installed a 3000 Series E-Crane®  to perform midstream transfer operations on the Amazon River in Brazil.  The E-Crane®  is mounted on a barge (61m x 22m x 4m) and transfers material directly from barges into Panamax sized ships. This is the largest river midstream transfer operation currently performed by an E-Crane®.  Equipped with a 30 cubic meter hydraulic clamshell grab, the E-Crane®  can transfer up to 22.5 metric tons of soybean in a single cycle.  With this machine, peak unloading rates reach 1400 metric tons of soybean […]

The tunneling machine is the world’s largest ever built and was supplied by a Japanese firm, Hitachi Zosen Corp.

Nucor General Recycling installed a 700 Series E-Crane for feeding auto bodies into a shredder at their facility near Jackson.

Mulzer Crushed Stone installed a 1500B Series E-Crane for handling aggregate and stone at their facility.

This impressive 3000 Series E-Crane® has changed the skyline of the steel mill and is now the heart of the scraplogistics between the port and the steel mill.

The average cycle time of the E-cranes is 60 seconds, and peaks of over 1000 wet metric tons per hour are reached.

The main reason for choosing this type of crane is the fact that this hydraulic balanced crane can operate with utmost precision plus the high transloading capacity.

In 2008 the first E-Crane® was delivered to IÇDAŞ’ Biga steel mill soon followed by an identical unit in 2009.

The E-Crane is used for stockpiling the scrap to a height of over 25 meters, necessary to ensure there is enough scrap ready for the loading of Handymax ships.

E-Crane provided a proven scrap yard layout and the material handling equipment for improved performance.

Seaboard operates grain processing and milling facilities throughout South America, the Carribean and Africa.

The E-Dredger® features the renowned E-Crane equilibrium principe for smooth, efficient, energy saving operation in a multitude of dredging and related applications.

Kinder Morgan needed a state-of-the-art material handler to unload incoming scrap from barges for the new SeverCorr Steel Mill.

In July 2007, the 1000B Series E-Crane® was installed next to the 700 Series E-Crane® at the villa Constitución plant.

River Metals Recycling replaced several conventional material handlers by the 1000 Series E-Crane, that is now feeding the world’s largest shear.

This E-Crane floating terminal consists of two barges (2000 Series E-Crane and conveyor back-up), a hopper, a barge-haul system, and a barge-breasting system.

Schelde-Natie replaced an existing grain elevator with an Equilibrium crane to offload vessels and a “bulk-flow system to discharge rail cars.

For Harsco Metals’ scrap management project at Arcelor’s new stainless steel mill, two 1000 Series E-Cranes have been working simultaneously at the Ugine & ALZ Carinox site since 2005.

Cargill Fertilizer has purchased a second new E-Crane® that was installed in April 2001 at its Houston Ship Channel facility.

This 1000 Series E-Crane is used to feed a shear at the scrap yard in Menen, Galloo Group.

This bulk handling E-Crane offloads a full 1800 ton barge, including clean-up, in less than 2 hours.

This 1500Series E-Crane is used dockside to unload bulk commodities.

ConAgra Foods, dba The Peavey Company in St. Paul Minnesota has purchased a 1000 Series, Model 7264 E-Crane® for use at the at Red Rock Terminal

The crane’s primary duty is the processing of stainless steel scrap and for loading and offloading of both inner waterway and sea going vessels.

The Cargill Fertilizer facility in Savage Minnesota needed to reduce operating costs and increase the volume produced by their barge offloading operation.

When new emission laws mandated B&N Coal to blend low-sulfur coal at this plant, they explored several options on how to most efficiently meet that requirement.

This E-Crane®, installed in the 4th quarter of 1998, was the first barge mounted E-Crane® to be sold in the United States.

The E-Crane not only offloads barges and feeds several hoppers, but the increased reach and stock-out capacity eliminates the need for additional hoppers and conveyor belts.