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In 1988 the crane business was combined into the KONE Cranes Division. [7] KONE Cranes Division remained an integral component of Kone until the year 1994. In February of that year, Kone made a strategic decision to refocus its efforts on the elevator business, leading to the divestiture of the crane division into an independent entity.
An overhead crane, featuring runways, bridge, and hoist in a traditional industrial environment. Overhead crane at the Skanska precast concrete factory in Hjärup, Sweden. Gantry-style overhead cranes of the Hainaut quarry in Soignies, Belgium. An overhead crane, commonly called a bridge crane, is a type of crane found in
Heikki H. Herlin took over as Kone’s president in 1932. Kone’s first foreign subsidiary, AB Kone Hissar of Sweden, was established in 1957. After World War II, Kone was called upon by the Finnish government to contribute elevators, electric hoists, and cranes to the war reparations being paid to the Soviet Union. This program forced Kone to ...
A level-luffing crane is a crane mechanism where the hook remains at the same level while luffing: moving the jib up and down, so as to move the hook inwards and outwards relative to the base. [ 1 ] Usually the description is only applied to those with a luffing jib that have some additional mechanism applied to keep the hook level when luffing.
An overhead crane, also known as a bridge crane, is a type of crane where the hook-and-line mechanism runs along a horizontal beam that itself runs along two widely separated rails. Often it is in a long factory building and runs along rails along the building's two long walls.
Taisun, the world's strongest gantry crane, at Yantai Raffles Shipyard, Yantai, China. Full gantry cranes (where the load remains beneath the gantry structure, supported from a beam) are well suited to lifting massive objects such as ships' engines, as the entire structure can resist the torque created by the load, and counterweights are generally not required.
The company also began manufacturing escalators, transmissions, rapid-transit railway lines, buses, tractors, and cargo ships. Passenger liners, shipboard cranes, and shipbuilding enterprises rounded out the company's profile. Because of the company's thriving export business, a worldwide system of branch offices was created.
EOT cranes are extensively used in warehouses and industry. [2] An EOT crane is able to carry heavy objects to anywhere needed on the factory floor, and can also be used for lifting. However, it cannot be used in every industry. The working temperature is to limited to a range between -20°C to 40°C. [citation needed]