[INDUSTRY NEWS] Discard point


noticeable on Rope


Outer damage due to breakage of wires or strands or of the fiber cover


Local damage


Reduction in diameter


Deformations Corrosion


Additional condition monitoring on crane


Load lift counter


Defined lifetime until discard


NO NO


YES YES


information about the actual residual safety to the total failure of the rope. The FEM 5.024 standard released in 2017 defines guidelines


“for the Safe Use of High Performance Fiber Ropes in Mobile Crane Applications”, especially with regard to their discard point.


Commercially available steel wire rope


YES


soLITE YES


It neutralizes the main criticism in connection with the use of fiber ropes on cranes, i.e., that they provide insufficient possibilities to detect their discard state. This standard represents a hitherto unavailable safety standard


YES YES


YES YES


YES YES


YES not


applicable


for the use of high performance fiber ropes whose rationale and comprehensiveness even eclipses that for steel wire ropes. Throughout the ENTIRE duration of a fiber rope’s use – from its installation to its discard point – the rope’s condition must not fall below a defined safety factor 3, and every fiber rope must be discarded no later than after 40% of its sustainable bending cycle life. soLITE® is constructed such that, even in the light of such stringent requirements, its use at construction sites makes sense economically.


The comparison between steel wire and soLITE® ropes dispels all doubts The direct comparison between a steel wire rope and a soLITE® fiber rope as regards criteria used to determine the discard point demonstrates not only that there exist quantifiable discard criteria for both technologies, but also that soLITE® comes out ahead in this comparison. y


Gorbel® Announces New Facility near Phoenix, Arizona


> Gorbel® Inc., a Victor, NY based manufacturer of material handling and fall protection equipment, is opening a new facility in Goodyear, AZ. Gorbel® currently has manufacturing locations in New York,


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