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BB CRANES TO SUPPLY 6 OVERHEAD CRANES TO D&E GROUP
A typical single-girder overhead crane being tested at Condra’s Johannesburg factory
Cape Town and George. The additional warehouses will meet
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increasing demand by engineering firms, construction companies and general industry for D&E Group’s product ranges in mild steel, aluminium and stainless steel. D&E’s warehouse cranes will be a mix of
8 and 5-tonners designed as single-girder electric overhead travelling machines. Condra will manufacture them to FEM class 2M standard, the classification for medium to heavy-duty service. The cranes will incorporate larger
diameter wheels and miscellaneous other components on the hoists and end-carriages to ensure durability under conditions of intensive usage. Lifting heights will be around 6,5 metres. Girder spans will range between 12 and 20 metres.
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B Cranes has received an order for six overhead cranes for steel distributor D&E Group, for new warehouses being built in
Town, customers get a shorter lead time on a new crane. They also gain access to readily available spare parts for maximum crane uptime. We deliver spares within 24 hours,” said Stephen Brink Jnr, senior sales executive, BB Cranes. “If a crane is to be cost effective,
downtime has to be minimised. But users who buy foreign cranes sometimes don’t take into consideration how much downtime will cost them if the crane is idle for long periods while spares are imported from abroad. Our spares are made locally, so delivery is almost immediate.”
Brink added that BB Cranes can deliver
a new crane between eight and 12 weeks from the date of order. “Our competitors can rarely deliver in less than sixteen weeks. So, because crane users often leave their lifting equipment orders until the last minute, having the shortest lead time gives us a significant competitive advantage,” he said.
Asked about expansion plans at BB
Cranes, Brink announced the company has recently added 400 square metres of factory floor space to its Rivergate premises. “This extra space is allowing smoother
production of an order book that continues to grow,” said Brink. “We have employed an additional
fabricator, and we have ongoing training programmes in place for factory staff.” BB Cranes was founded in 1992 to
marry Cape Town-manufactured crane girders and electrification systems to technically complex hoists, crabs, end- carriages and other crane components supplied by Johannesburg-based Condra, saving customers the cost of transporting a complete crane between Gauteng and the Mother City. BB Cranes became majority-owned by
Condra in 2016, and wholly owned in 2022. The company is currently working towards ISO 9001:2015 certification to match that held by Condra.
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