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Inc., Webster, N.Y., hosted a Lift & Move USA event in 2019 and became a Friend of Lift & Move sponsor in 2020. About Lift & Move USA Lift & Move USA promotes career
opportunities by connecting students and educators with the people, equipment, and companies that work in crane, rigging, and specialized transportation operations. The program’s organizers are the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association, Specialized Carriers & Rigging Foundation, NCCCO Foundation, and KHL. Learn more at Lift&
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FallTech Products Now CSA Approved and Available in Canada
> In response to market demand, FallTech® announces today that its product line is available for sale in Canada. It has successfully completed a rigorous testing process of many of the most relied upon and important Fall Protection products which now meet Canadian CSA standards, as well as ANSI and OSHA for the U.S. Market. FallTech solutions will be available through select Canadian channel partners. Products available for sale in Canada include
a broad selection of anchorages, full body harnesses, lanyards, vertical lifelines and fall arrestors, self-retracting lifelines, both overhead and personal, and other fall protection solutions. Brands available for sale in Canada
include DuraTech® Web and Cable SRLs, Contractor Series SRLs, Advanced ComforTech® Gel, Journeyman Flex, Tradesman Plus, Contractor Plus, and WeldtechTM branded products. The FallTech Canadian Catalogue
Supplement is now available that illustrates the range of branded products available for the Canadian market, as well as the applicable CSA standards to which they comply.
• Harnesses are certified to CSA Z259.10- 2018 Class A or Class A, P and ANSI Z359.11-2014
• DuraTech® and Contractor Leading Edge SRLs shown are certified to CSA Z259.2.2-2017 SRL-LE
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• DuraTech® Mini SRLs shown are certified to CSA Z259.2.2-2017 SRL
• DuraTech® web and cable SRLs shown are certified to CSA Z259.2.2-2017 SRL
• Vertical Lifelines and Fall Arresters shown are certified to CSA Z259.2.5-2017
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New Testing Center for Pintsch Bubenzer Brakes
> Brake products supplied by Pintsch Bubenzer USA will be tested by two new dynamometer test stands at the manufacturer’s research and development center in Betzdorf, Germany. Pintsch Bubenzer makes high performance
disc and drum brakes for cranes and other severe duty applications, as well as complementary products, such as emergency and storm brakes. One test bench is used for smaller caliper and drum brakes and the other for larger caliper and hydraulic brakes. The testing facility is particularly
applicable to products supplied in the USA to Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST)—formerly Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (AISE)—standards and those that meet the rigid requirements of Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN), the German national organization for standardization. As Joel Cox, president at Pintsch
Bubenzer USA explained, products for wind energy and storm brakes are subject to more specific testing as they do not always rely on “spinning” as much as “grabbing”. Cox added: “Our goal was to not
only build a testing center that could work with today’s highest capacity equipment, but also tomorrow’s. Given the pace of evolution—we recently installed a series of Twin Safe TS800 brakes on two 10,000-metric ton (22 million pound) capacity cranes and auxiliary hoists aboard a giant semi-submersible crane vessel—that vision required us to think big. To have a proven, repeatable product you must endure the most rigorous of design and testing processes and in these new dynamometer test stands we have that.” Cox explained that the pair of testing
units are in addition to a thruster dyno test bed at North American headquarters in Flemington, New Jersey, where prospective and existing customers can see six of the company’s most popular brakes and couplings undergo thorough examination.
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The system is also used for in-house training and employee inductions. Back in Germany, where the testing
center runs under the watchful eye of Johannes Hammelrath, the new dynamometer test stands boast some staggering numbers. For example, the diameter of the test brake discs range from 560mm to 1,200mm, depending on the test brake; the maximum braking torque (static and dynamic) is 30,000 Nm; the maximum speed is 2,200 1/min; and the mass inertia is adjustable in steps from 50 to 1,000 kgm², via coupleable flywheel masses. Cox also pointed to the maximum energy (without brake disc) of 25,000 kJ at 2,200 1/min; and maximum braking performance of 3.5 MW at 2,200 rpm and 30,000 Nm. He said: “Hundreds of our products
have already been tested at this new center. Typically, products are tested upon design of the units in production batches. We also are asked sometimes for proof testing; we can pair up a given disc with pads and burnish them in for a small fee and prove given torques—not just static paperwork.” y
STAFDA Opens Convention and Trade Show to Non-Members
> The Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Assocation - STAFDA – invites distributors in the construction/industrial channel whose organization’s annual meeting was canceled to attend STAFDA’s upcoming November 8-10 Anaheim Convention & Trade Show for this year only. The construction/industrial channel is
a people-centric, hands-on business where networking, education, and seeing new products are key. COVID-L9 has taken away that opportunity for many groups this year and STAFDA wants to extend an invitation to distributors who have missed out on their own vertical channel’s convention or coop meeting to connect with like-minded peers in a safe environment. Visit STAFDA’s website,
www.stafda.
org, to learn more about the Anaheim Convention & Trade Show, review the agenda, safety precautions, exhibitor list, and pricing. Non-STAFDA distributors will be able to register for the Anaheim meeting through a registration link posted to STAFDA’s home page under the “Convention” tab. y
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