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Keep the Drama on the Stage! Don’t Wait Until an Equipment Breakdown Makes Your Curtain Fall!

The entertainment industry is always upgrading to keep up with the latest effects and technology. Did you know American Crane & Equipment Corporation can service and supply parts for your Columbus McKinnon (which includes Lodestar, Prostar, Series 602 Mini Hoists, and Meteor Winches) entertainment equipment? Whether it’s touring, corporate, worship, theatrical, sporting events, or film we can keep your high performance Rigging Products, Winches, and Manual/Electric Chain Hoists in excellent working condition to insure a great performance!

To learn more about these products click on our CM, CMCO and Parts pages or call us at 1-877-877-6778 and email us at sales@americancrane.com.

Material Handling for Wind Energy – American Crane offers its own and Columbus McKinnon products for Special Markets

The wind energy market has special material handling requirements. Not only are most of the components large, heavy, and installed over 80 meters in the air, but the manufacturing facilities are running at full capacity and in most cases are looking to expand. Whether it is cranes used on the manufacturing floor, tie downs used on the trucks transporting the equipment, rigging products used to install the wind turbines, or hoists used during maintenance of the wind turbines, let us be your complete source for material handling products and services.

American Crane & Equipment Corporation is recognized as one of the leading custom crane and material handling manufacturers in the world. American Crane’s equipment routinely operates in many unique applications handling critical loads such as wind turbine generator blades. American Crane can turn your Critical Lift challenges into a well designed solution.

We can offer a full line of rigging equipment for installation of wind turbines, including shackles, hooks, slings, customized clamps, and a variety of related fixtures and attachments. Standard and custom designed load binders, binder assemblies, chain and fittings that allow for easy, secure tie down of oversized loads.

Our wide variety of material handling equipment(workstation cranes, industrial cranes and industrial hoists), maximizes space usage, improves ergonomics, and optimizes material flow throughout a facility. Maintenance and repair programs are also available to keep your products moving. Greased lubricated electric chain hoists prevent issues associated with oil leaks and require minimal maintenance, saving time and money. We also provide a full line of manual hoists for positioning and pulling objects during maintenance activities.

American Crane is an authorized distributor for all Columbus McKinnon products and parts. This includes the following brands: CM, Budgit, Coffing, Little Mule, Shaw-Box, Yale, Chester, Loderail and more.

For more information about our Industrial Solutions, Products and Services click here

or email us at sales@americancrane.com (1-877-877-6778)

Bridge Maintenance and Repair Travelers

American Crane’s Bridge Travelers are movable platforms that are designed to allow safe access to the underside of bridges for inspection and maintenance purposes. We offer both self propelled gas and diesel versions as well as electric powered. Our designs are custom for each different bridge application. A standard design feature is proven anti-skewing and control technology to assure smooth operation. Custom capabilities include multi-directional articulation of the platform as well as personnel lifts to access additional areas under the roadway.

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American Crane’s Travelers are located on the Queensborough, Mid-Hudson and Thousand Island bridges in New York. Our project for the Mackinac Bridge included eight of the most sophisticated Travelers in the Western Hemisphere, featuring telescopic platform extensions. The latest set of Travelers manufactured by American Crane was recently supplied for the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.
To visit American Crane’s Bridge Maintenance and Repair Travelers page click here.
To learn more about our Industrial Solutions, Products, and Services click here.
Email us at sales@americancrane.com or call us at 1-877-877-6778.

Custom Lift Devices

American Crane and Equipment Corporation offers custom engineered lifting devices designed to solve numerous material handling problems. We have manufactured lifting beams ranging from 1 Ton to 300 Ton. Our lifting devices include Magnet Beams, Rotating Lower Beams, Rotating Magnet Beams, Grabs for Handling Nuclear Waste Containers, Container Grabs, Motorized Telescopic Lifting Beams and Crane Scale Systems.

To view our Custom Lifting Devices page click here.
For more information about our Industrial Solutions, Products and Services visit our home page or email us at sales@americancrane.com.
Or call us at 1-877-877-6778

Happy Holidays from all of us at American Crane & Equipment Corporation. We’ve appreciated your business and support throughout 2010 and look forward to your continued patronage in 2011. We wish you success, health, and happiness in the coming New Year.

 

 

Built Up Hoisting Machinery

Looking for quality Open Deck Machinery? Need to provide better crane features for your customers? Let us supply your OEM facility with standardized industrial trolley hoists meeting Class D and E requirements. We’ll prepare and supply the engineering drawings customized to your needs. Your manufacturing facility handles the bridge fabrication, assembly and installation. Equipment designed per CMAA Specification #70 Revised 2004. Certification available upon request.
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OR call us direct at 1-877-877-6778 or email at sales@americancrane.com

Quality Assurance Programs

Did you know that American Crane offers three levels of Q.A. programs?

Nuclear Quality Program

American Crane’s Nuclear Quality Program (QAM-96) and implementing procedures address the full 18 point nuclear criteria. This program has been used to provide safety related, single failure proof cranes and trolleys, and other specialized lift equipment to numerous nuclear power plants. This program has been used to supply equipment for aerospace and government applications.

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American Crane offers customized quality programs that provide customer specific quality solutions.

Standard Commercial Quality Program

We also offer a commercial quality program that implements the key quality controls that meet the requirements for most industrial applications.

To visit our Quality Assurance Programs page click here OR for more information contact us via email at sales@americancrane.com or call us direct at 1-877-877-6778.

 

Trust American Crane’s experience on your new Turbine Building Maintenance Cranes

When considering procuring equipment for a new fossil plant, selecting the crane to service the turbine is a critical investment decision. The crane must be reliable to preclude breakdowns during outages and to avoid unanticipated maintenance needs that result in costly plant shutdowns. American Crane has considerable experience in providing new turbine building maintenance cranes over the last several years.

 

 

 

 

To view our Turbine Cranes page click here

For more information contact us via email at sales@americancrane.com
or call us direct at 1-877-877-6778

Custom Fabricated Components

Do you have a need for a custom fabrication or part that you either do not have time or expertise to design? American Crane’s highly qualified engineering department can design innovative solutions that can be translated into drawings and manufactured fabrications and parts.

American Crane has been required over the years to create unique design and manufacturing solutions to support our custom crane manufacturing program.This same expertise can be used to design and manufacture almost any welded fabrication or part that can be imagined.

Cask Lift Beam
Custom Fabricated Component
Plasma & Oxy-fuel cutting Machine

To view our Custom Fabricated Components page click here OR
contact us for more information at 1-877-877-6778 or via email at
sales@americancrane.com

Field Service for all Cranes, Hoists and Runways

American Crane and Equipment Corporation (ACECO) can support all your field service needs. Our highly skilled field technicians and engineering support teams provide you with quality workmanship and extensive experience. With our first rate manufacturing facility, we are able to quickly produce and refurbish cranes, hoists, spare parts and components.

For more information contact us via email at sales@americancrane.com
or call us direct at 1-877-877-6778.

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