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CAPITAL EQUIPMENT NEWS
DECEMBER 2015
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ohannesburg-based EMCO-MH (Pty)
Ltd, trading under the brand of
EMCO, is the exclusive Sub-Saharan
distributor of electric mobile gantry cranes
manufactured by Eden Technology – which
has remained an internationally-recognised
specialist in the design and manufacture
of special equipment for lifting and mov-
ing heavy components, with experience
of more than 40 years. EMCO gained lo-
cal distribution rights to the Eden range of
cranes, which can be fully-customised to
offer unique solutions to highly-complex
and niche applications, in mid-2015.
EMCO director Wynand Andeweg points
out that conventional mobile and overhead
cranes are not always suitable to uniquely
specified projects and require additional
supporting infrastructure. “Eden mobile gan-
try cranes can be fully-customised to ensure
that they meet the precise individual specifi-
cations for projects such as bridge building,
civil construction and heavy industry lifting
– while eliminating the need for costly sup-
port infrastructure that is a requirement with
conventional rail mounted cranes.”
The greatest breakthrough in the patent-
ed design of the ‘EVA’ Eden mobile gantry
crane range is the elimination of all hydrau-
lics. Traditional cranes use diesel engines
that drive hydraulic pumps by pressurising
the oil, which triggers the hydraulic motors
to generate the necessary movement. This
results in a high degree of environmental-
ly-damaging oil leakages, as well as ma-
chine downtime.
Eden mobile gantry cranes make use of pat-
ented components to enable a fully electri-
cally driven mobile-gantry crane. “Electrical
power boasts far greater efficiency than
hydraulic power, which results in up to 20
percent energy savings, in addition to sim-
plifying and reducing maintenance cycles.
This can result in substantial long-term sav-
ings, especially for large-scale operations,”
explains Andeweg.
The standard Eden mobile gantry cranes fea-
ture lifting capacities ranging from 15 to 200
tonnes, however, they can be fully-custom-
ised to handle loads of up to 1 000 tonnes.
“Such large capacity is ideally-suited to
bridge building, where large bridge sections
are extremely heavy and difficult to move
using standard cranes,” Andeweg continues.
LIFTING THE STANDARDS
in mobile crane technology