REGION REPORT | SPAIN
R JASO Industrial Cranes is launching ‘Cranebot’ in alliance with Tecnalia, Spain.
Affirming faith in Spanish products, TC/ American Crane Company has signed an agreement with JASO Industrial Cranes to distribute its products in the United States. JASO Industrial Cranes was founded in Itsasondo, Spain in 1965 and has been serving the steel industry for over 50 years. It has production centers in Spain, India, Mexico and Argentina and has a distribution network across more than 20 countries. “We are very excited to be partnering
with JASO to be able to offer these components in the states,” said Dustin Krauth, regional sales manager, TC/ American Crane Company. “Their commitment to providing high
quality components at a competitive price is what led us to want to work with them in the first place” Although all JASO’s product line will be
available through TC/American, it plans on stocking a variety of hoists, end trucks and crane kits in the US to cut down on lead times and freight costs. The portfolio includes; underhung and
top running girders which can be attached to structural or box-shaped end trucks. TC/ American will be providing both single and double girder JASO end truck options. Also, hoists - JASO makes two different
styles of hoists: “N” Range and “V” Range. Each is designed for its own specific application. Both can lift up to 100 tons and has OP 55 protection available to keep operations running smoothly. The “N” Range has a two-speed lifting motor, and the “V” Range is variable speed through a variable frequency drive. TC/American Crane Company designs and supplies overhead cranes and monorail systems. Specializing in Patented Track underhung crane systems, TC/A Box Girder and wide flange top running cranes, and Spanmaster enclosed track workstation cranes, the company has grown to be a “one stop shop” for overhead material handling applications, based in Minnesota. In other news, JASO has partnered with
Tecnalia, the largest applied research and technological development centre in Spain, and a member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance. to ‘convert industrial cranes into robots’. The result is an alliance that encompasses Tecnalia’s knowledge of cable technology and Jaso’s experience in the lifting sector. This means a crane is no longer limited to vertical and horizontal movements, but increases its freedom of action and its precision.
The cable technology allows the crane
to work with very heavy and/or high- volume elements with a margin of +/- 2mm and a total control of 6 degrees in the orientation of parts. The project has been named ‘Cranebot’. The technology is geared towards applications in industrial sectors including handling of molds, aeronautics, civil engineering, logistics; manual processes and precision and positioning of large pieces, as well as wind power, most notably polishing the blades of wind turbines, in their manufacturing phase. “Nowadays, when the blades are
increasingly larger, this task is carried out manually by most manufacturers. The new system automates the process, which means improving quality and safety (reducing accidents at work by 50%), as well as reducing costs (by 20%) and increasing productivity (by 50%). The prototype has already proved to be effective, and has moved on to the commercialization phase”, said Raúl Fernández Niso, sales and marketing director. JASO Industrial Cranes. ‘Cranebot’ will make its debut at
MetalMadrid (November 17-18, 2021) at IFEMA, Madrid and the Bilbao Machine Tool Biennial (BIEMH), June 13-17, 2022 ●
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