Our Competitive Edge

Always Improving for You
We are a leader in our industry, with over 139 years of manufacturing and engineering excellence in material handling systems. Our constant drive to improve our quality products and processes sets us apart from our competitors. By streamlining our workflow and developing and expanding our product line, we offer you a better product at a better price.

  • Process & Product Design Development
    • Develop new crane designs to reduce costs without sacrificing reliability and integrity
    • Review designs to find ways to update and strengthen existing equipment, extending its life cycle
    • Computer-based modeling and documentation
    • Strive to stay on the cutting edge with the latest in Technology and Equipment
    • Expand our lighter class industrial cranes
       
  • Shop Floor Improvements
    • Integrated shop scheduling thru Sage Software
    • New CMC equipment for enhanced flexibility and performance
    • Optimize “footprint” for labor/handling efficiencies
    • Upgrade welders’ skills to include AISC/ASME
    • Giving hourly workers more responsibility and authority
    • Large scale manufacturing capabilities save you in teardown and reassembly
       
  • Customizing and Inventing
    Need something special? Our engineering and manufacturing department will work hard to fill that need using innovative solutions. Some of the patents we have developed over the years are listed below.
Description
 
U.S.A.
Patent No.
No. of
Countries Patented*
 
Traveling Crane Truck of Saddle & Pin Construction 3,404,640 1
Gantry Crane for Loading Barges on Ships (LASH) 3,390,657 8
Ingot Stripping Mechanism with Spherical Taper Roller Bearings 3,460,610 1
Shipboard Gantry Crane & Hoist Mechanism (LASH) 3,467,263 1
System for handling Cargo Lighters & Cargo Hatch Covers Aboard Ships (LASH) 3,469,716
3,515,086
7
Apparatus for handling Floating Lighters (LASH) 3,515,085 7
Anchoring Device for Gantry Cranes 3,536,204 6
Overhead Traveling Crane & Hoist Mechanism (LASH) 3,550,788 1
Drop Hammer Frame & Assembly 4,116,039 2
Rotating Joint for Water Cooled Trunnion 3,167,332 1
Structural Mill Maker 3,163,106 1