Reliable Industrial Cranes & Custom Lifting Solutions

Start with the building and the way you lift, not the capacity alone. A building that can carry a runway usually points to an overhead crane, a yard or a hall with no runway to a gantry crane, and repeated lifts at one machine to a jib crane. If the crane runs as part of production, look at a process crane.

A gantry crane is the usual answer, because it runs on floor rails and needs no building runway. First check whether the columns could carry a new runway, since an overhead crane keeps the floor clearer. If you only need lifting at one spot, a column-mounted jib crane stands free on its own foundation or base plate.

A jib crane is enough when lifts are local and the loads are within its range, up to 10 t at EOTEC. It serves the area around one machine, workstation or loading bay, so it cannot cover the full length of a hall. Once loads must travel between work areas, you need an overhead or gantry crane.

You need one when the crane is part of the production line and a stopped crane means a stopped plant. Typical signs are lifting through the whole shift and loads often close to capacity. If lifts are occasional, a correctly classified overhead crane is usually enough, and a process crane would be over-specified for the work.

Yes, and it is often the better layout. A common arrangement is a main overhead crane for heavy moves, with jib cranes at workstations for frequent small lifts, which keeps the main crane free. A yard next to the hall may add a gantry crane. Plan the cranes together so their clearances and working areas do not conflict.

Overhead and process cranes go up to 100 t, with higher capacities on request, and spans up to 40 m. Gantry cranes also go up to 100 t, with the span set by the project. Jib cranes go up to 10 t. Capacity alone does not decide the type, because the building, the working area and the duty matter as much.

An overhead crane takes the least, because it runs on elevated runways and leaves the floor clear. A gantry crane needs floor rails and clearance for its legs along the whole travel path. Among jib cranes, a wall-mounted jib saves floor space compared with a column-mounted one, whose column stands in the working area.

Each crane is calculated for your hall, your loads and your duty cycle, rather than picked from a fixed list of models. The four crane types are starting points. Structure, hoist, drives and controls are then settled during engineering, and a layout drawing comes to you for approval before girders and end carriages go into fabrication.

No. It applies to overhead and gantry cranes, which both come in single and double girder versions, as our single vs double girder comparison explains for overhead cranes. EOTEC process cranes are double girder because of their heavy loads and intensive duty. A jib crane has a rotating arm instead, so the choices there are mounting, slewing and hoist.

There are four stages. We survey your hall, runway and loads and agree the duty. Engineering produces the structural calculation, duty classification and a layout drawing for approval. Girders, end carriages and hoisting units are then fabricated and assembled in our facility. Finally come erection, commissioning, load testing, CE documentation and operator training on your site.