Brannon Steel and Konecranes work together to bring crane up to speed

Swing and sway

In 2010, Brannon Steel opened a facility near its headquarters in Brampton, Ontario, in a building with 10 overhead cranes. Soon after moving in, they discovered the cranes would not suit their steel-making process, as even the lowest speed setting on the crane was too fast to lift 40-foot long sheets of steel without load sway.

 

Slow and steady

As a longtime customer of Konecranes, Brannon Steel reached out to their local Konecranes service branch for guidance. Both parties determined that purchasing new bridge motors and gear reducers would be unnecessarily expensive, as would purchasing a new hoist; so Konecranes suggested installing variable frequency drives to slow down the cranes.

Konecranes has since upgraded six of their 10 hoists and installed a new radio control system. The facility has started replacing the cranes with Konecranes CXT hoists, equipped with TRUCONNECT Remote Monitoring.

“Now, our cranes work like a dream.” says David Lee, special products manager, Brannon Steel.