aeronautics firms, auto manufacturers and food processing companies. Georgia may be known as the Peach State, but when it comes to overhead cranes, there are a large number of manufacturers and distributors, many of them in business for more than five decades.
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Not surprisingly, most of the overhead bridge crane companies in Georgia are located in Atlanta, the state’s capital and largest metropolitan area. However, other major cities in the state have at least one crane company in the surrounding area. Interestingly, there are a handful of overhead crane companies that have multiple locations throughout the state. This makes for easy access to their products and services from anywhere
eorgia’s top manufacturers are representative of the state’s powerful industrial sector, home to major
within the southeastern US state. To mention a few, are Material Handling
Systems, Power and Motion - which sells Gorbel’s ergonomic workstation bridge cranes and R&M Materials Handling’s overhead crane systems, KCI of Georgia overhead crane distributor, Engineered Systems, Gajjar Engineered Systems, Royce Crane Co. USA Crane & Hoist Services and Applied Handling Systems. KCI just celebrated its 33rd anniversary, offering sales, parts and service centers for overhead cranes and hoists. Hussey Gay Bell is no stranger to one of
the largest corporate enterprises in Georgia and helped to design and construct a new Gulfstream Wing assembly building at Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. in Savannah, GA. The facility includes three overhead cranes, two loading docks, utility floor trenches, paint booth, assembly area, offices, shipping
and receiving, and a food service area for employees. Careful coordination of site layout and design was required with the Federal Aviation Administration and Savannah Airport Commission to avoid encroachment into the established BRL (Building Restriction Line) and line of sight from the aircraft control tower. Site design also included overall campus coordination to ensure future development conformance to two municipal code requirements, analysis of the entire campus to confirm compliance with both overall and specific site tree and landscape requirements, and analysis of the specific site and overall campus stormwater management related to storm water quality. Also adhering to proprietary construction
technology is PNK Group USA which will construct a 1.2 million-square-foot industrial
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