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Current News
- Advanced Crane Technologies is pleased to announce the addition of two new key employees to
our staff. Kevin Fleming and Glenn Miller.
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- Advanced Crane Technologies is now offering Arc Flash Analysis for electrical equipment
as part of our overall commitment to being a “complete” turn-key solution provider.
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News Archive
Advanced Crane Technologies is pleased to announce the addition of two new key employees to our staff.
Richard Schultz and Greg Fitzpatrick, P.E.
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May 2008:
Advanced Crane
Technologies completed a contract
for the US Bureau of Reclamation
to provide a new 5
Ton capacity trolley for an existing
maintenance crane at the
Hoover Dam, Boulder City,
NV. ACT provided a unique trolley
that is able to be moved
between generators by an overhead
crane in the powerhouse.
This new state of the art piece
of equipment replaces a 4 ton
hand powered trolley that
was built over seventy years
ago. Not only does our new
trolley have 25% more lifting
capacity and is radio controlled,
but the dead weight
of the trolley is less than the
existing one, allowing the 4
ton bridge to be upgraded to
5 tons without modification.
March 2008:
ACT finished installation and commissioning of a new 10 ton capacity spillway stoplog handling crane at Garrison Dam Riverdale ND, for the Omaha district of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The new crane is equipped with Variable Frequency Drive controls for the hoist and trolley functions, and is controlled by a radio remote control, or a back up push button pendant. The crane travels over ¼ of a mile across the spillway servicing 28 spillway gates. As part of the contract ACT supplied and installed 1,405’ of 250 amp electrification along the runway to power the new crane, and a 42’ long 10 ton capacity spreader beam with a latching mechanism to pick up and set stoplogs in the dam. This crane is also equipped with a load sensing safety system to prevent the operator from lifting weight over the rated capacity.
February 2008:
ACT completed a contract for the Mobile district of the Corps of Engineers to supply six large
stainless steel sheave blocks to the Walter F. George Dam in Shorterville, AL for use on the 100 ton intake gate hoists.
ACT designed, and manufactured the blocks out-of 304 stainless steel due to the fact
they will spend most of their life immersed in the Chattahoochee River. Each block has (6) 33
inch diameter sheaves grooved for 1 1/8’’ diameter wire rope. The rated lifting capacity of each block is 100,000
pounds. Final shipment was made in February of 2008.
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