lift building materials and machinery, and in steel mill operations, and these newest products from Tway represent that evolution’s cutting edge. Like all of the Tway’s wire rope products these massive slings are crafted from raw materials supplied by great firms like Te Crosby Group, Loos & Co., Wireco, Bridon and Bethlehem Wire Rope. “Using only American steel is the most important thing.
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It allows me to sleep very well every night,” says Hansen. “Selling domestic products gives us the best possible steel available anywhere. When you think of safety and life cycles among imports there are questions. With American materials we don’t see workmanship problems and problems with fatigue. We’ve always felt that if we moved to imports the products would become just another commodity that begins a downward slide we didn’t want to participate.”
WE HAVE 260 YEARS OF RIGGING EXPERIENCE IN OUR STAFF AND WE RELY ON ALL OF THEM WITH EVERY JOB WE PRODUCE.
In addition to their track record for consistent, safe,
products and services, one way that Tway has guaranteed their success is by forming strategic partnerships with the suppliers they distribute. A great example of this kind of partnership is the agreement that Tway has with Peerless Industrial Group. Tway is one of only a few distributors in the U.S. that is trusted to perform their own welding of both new and reconditioned alloy steel chains. In order to facilitate the service, Peerless picked up the tab for the equipment investment that the new welding operation required. Te arrangement is a mutually beneficial one that has streamlined the process of getting Peerless products manufactured, supplied and distributed to their paying customers in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and all over the Southeast.
Photos courtesy of Tway Lifting Products.
“Peerless has three or four of us in the country who do
that work on their behalf,” says Hansen. “Typically, a welded chain would take four or five days to build, weld, test and ship. We can knock them out in the same day and do them properly.” Having plenty of inventory on hand and owning their own testing equipment, Tway can service chain types from 9/32” through a full 1”. In order to ensure that their products are both safe and
durable Tway takes pride in offering a specialized service like in-house chain welding. Te specialized technique involves heat treating and tempering the chain prior to proof testing and certification. Regardless of the chain’s grade, both welding and heat treating have to be performed to the most exacting standards in order to create a product that is as long lasting and safe as it is effective. All of Tway’s welders and inspectors are certified, and their state-of-the-art welding and heat-treating equipment are the best tools for properly building or repairing chains on site. Tway also performs hydraulic proof load testing on all of their sling chains. Every chain they sell is certified safe. Tway’s testing machinery can apply a tensile load up to 110 tons, ensuring that every part of a given sling meets both the elasticity as well as the ductility requirements set forth by regulatory agencies like ANSI and OSHA. Tway also offers testing services on a contract basis to other manufacturers, engineers and consumers of all kinds of non-standard devices, structures and fabrications. It should come as no surprise that a quick online search for information about Te Tway Company turns up a few YouTube videos of the workers at the shop in action. One video shows a Tway employee in blue coveralls with a big beard and heavily tattooed forearms splicing 5/8" slings using a new National, 1500 ton swaging machine. Te worker splits the strands at the end of a wire rope and bends them back to form a braided loop which is then fitted with a metal sleeve that he positions at the neck of the loop. Te swaging machine then brings 1500 tons of pressure to bear on the metal sleeve at the neck of the loop, crimping
Tway supplied for both the Dallas Cowboys Stadium and the Indianapolis Colts Lucas Stadium.
MARCH-APRIL 2014 WIRE ROPE EXCHANGE
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