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Renold retrofit for
RMGs with the PB70s. The
RMGs from MGM were regeared
with David Brown products about Fantuzzi/Terex arbitration
five years ago, says Thamesport’s
Thamesport RMGs
engineering manager Tony Sloat. Fantuzzi group has confirmed that
“To date Renold has supplied it has drawn up arbitration pro-
over 100 units to this and other ceedings in order to dispute the
UK-based Renold Gears has ret- with special bores and torque sites,” said Rob Stanley, Renold validity and legal basis of the uni-
rofitted modified PB70 and PB80 brackets, to enable them to fit in Gears’ southern area sales engineer. lateral “termination” by Terex of
bevel helical gear units to the drive the existing mountings. A feature of the PM Series design the definitive agreement entered
wheels of the automated stacking The PB80s are being fitted to is the motor connection, which into on 8 August 2008.
cranes at Hutchison’s London the older series of Morris RMGs allows the customer to “plug-in” Despite the arbitration plan,
Thamesport terminal. at the terminal, following the its own motor once the units are Fantuzzi group also said, in a state-
According to Renold, the regearing of the newer Morris fitted to the cranes. ment issued from Reggio Emilia
helical gear/worm gear arrange- on 29 January, “that ongoing dis-
ments, originally supplied by
Renold is regearing the long travel drives of Morris automated RMGs at Thamesport
cussions with Terex Co and meet-
other gearbox manufacturers, ings are taking place with all the
were proving unreliable in this involved parties, to see whether
application due to the large back the dispute can be settled amica-
driving inertias involved as the bly and without any further delay,
cranes come to a standstill. and therefore allow the transfer to
The inability of the worm/ Terex Co of Fantuzzi group’s in-
If Fantuzzi Group gets its way, the last tranche of the bond repayment will be
deferred again, until the end of July this year
wheel design to backdrive was dustrial operations.”
exacerbated by the stopping force Fantuzzi group added, how- ble to each of them, in order to of bond holders has been sched-
of the brake. As a result the gears ever, that negotiations are “facilitate the achievement as soon uled for 24 February (venue not
were experiencing premature fail- underway with other potential as practicable by such creditors of disclosed, but the one last August
ures, resulting in unnecessary investors. Fantuzzi Group also a positive solution to the current was in London) and, if required, a
downtime and hefty repair costs. stated, that based on the above- situation.” second meeting will take place not
The port approached Renold mentioned actions and informa- The final tranche (€55M) of less than 14 days later, in order to
to help find a solution and the tion, it has taken appropriate steps the Eurobond it had renegotiated request a further extension of the
company suggested its PM Series, to convene a meeting of all its in 2004 should have been repaid pactum de non petendum until 31
PB70 and PB80 bevel helical units. creditors (banks, JP Morgan and last July. At that time Fantuzzi was July 2009.
These are standard products but bondholders), according to the in the final stages of sale negotia- This will give Fantuzzi Group
were modified for the application formalities and timeline applica- tions with Terex and in August the time to conclude a sale to Terex
deadline was extended to the end or to one or more of the other
of January 2009. interested parties. For the record,
On 3 February, Fantuzzi the second statement says that the
Group issued a second statement. figure in question is €50M, origi-
This advises that a first meeting nally due on 16 July 2008.
Houcon Cargo Systems b.v.
P.O. Box 1569
3260 BB Oud-Beijerland
The Netherlands
Alexander Bellstraat 7 3261 LX Oud-Beijerland The Netherlands
Avtron wins RTG
Telephone +31 (0)186 – 620930 E-Mail
info@houcon-group.com
Telefax +31 (0)186 – 615160 Website
www.houcon-group.com
deal from Houston
YOUR PARTNER IN TRAILER CONSTRUCTION
US-based Avtron Industrial Au- says that this system has a good
tomation has been selected by the track record in other areas of the
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Skeletal trailer with Rockerbeams up to 70T
supplier for the upgrade of six common controller boards
Noell RTGs at Barbours Cut. throughout the product line, the
The existing DC crane drives cost of spare parts would be sig-
and PLCs are obsolete and are no nificantly reduced.
longer supported by the original Avtron also came up with a
manufacturer, says Avtron, and cost saving control strategy to re-
this obsolescence exposes the port duce the number of drives from
to potential crane downtime and three to two making these cranes
lost production. similar to the Bardella cranes re-
The current system includes cently upgraded by Avtron.
three DC drives that control the Avtron also proposed replac-
main motions of the cranes. A ing the existing PLC with a GE
PLC is used to interconnect the Fanuc RX3i and VersaMax dis-
drives and performs the logical tributed I/O. Serial communica-
control of the system. tion will be utilised for the re-
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Remote I/O is distributed mote I/O and Ethernet commu-
Cornerless “bumpcar” with “Rockerbeams”
throughout the cranes connecting nication will be used between the
the field devices to the control PLC and DC drives.
system. Hardware for the system The ADDvantage-32 DC plat-
is becoming more problematic form can communicate to the
and harder to maintain. PLC using the manufacturer’s na-
Avtron’s crane systems group tive protocol, producing an ex-
proposed replacing the drives with tremely high speed connection
its ADDvantage-32 DC platform without the need for adapters and
with Ethernet communication. It converter boxes.
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Roll trailers with safety hooks
Paceco’s Italian
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Other equipment:
Roll trailer with fixed gooseneck
licence renewed
Paolo De Nicola Spa has re- numbers linked to a tracking/
ported that its licence agree- managing system of the yard.
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Skeletal trailers, up to 60T
ment with Paceco Corp has The two companies have
been renewed for the next four agreed a tighter cooperation to
years (2009-2012). This opens keep Paolo De Nicola exper-
Multi-trailer systems, up to 60T
the full range of Paceco’s R&D tise at the top level and an ex-
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and engineering departments to change of information and a
the Italian company’s sales and training plan for Paolo De
marketing in the crane field. Nicola technicians and engi-
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Goosenecks, up to 45T Apart from Portainers and neers has been agreed.
Transtainers, Paceco is involved Paolo de Nicola was origi-
in developing systems for port nally appointed a Paceco licen-
Lfting cassette trailers, up to 120T
security, environmental mitiga- see in 2004, but in 2005 the
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tion, remote monitoring, and company called in the admin-
inventory tracking among oth- istrators and it is not clear
ers. Recent developments in- whether the original licence
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Trailers for special requirements
clude the Hybrid Drive terms continued during the
Transtainer, the Interceptor Se- period it traded under admin-
curity System (radioscopic in- istration. However, it is under-
www.houcon-group.com
spection of containers), the ca- stood that the two cranes that
ble reel carrier system for the company supplied to PAT
mains-powered rubber-tyred Thailand (see WorldCargo News
Transtainers and OCR recog- October 2007, p2) were Paceco
Used equipment available!! Ask for details.
nition of container ISO ID Portainers.
2 February 2009
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