Condra Cranes enters Class 4 market
1st Quarter 2014
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Condra Cranes is to expand production at its Germiston factory to include very heavy duty Class 4 machines, allowing the company to aggressively target this market throughout Africa. The company has extended its existing agreement with Russian partner Vniiptmash to provide for two-way import and export crane component flow between the two entities.
These components will comprise hoists, crabs, end-carriages and bottom-blocks manufactured by both companies. Class 4 components made by Vniiptmash in Russia will be imported by Condra and married to crane girders and other structural elements fabricated in South Africa, while Condra will continue to manufacture components for Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3 cranes for export and incorporation into Vniiptmash structures manufactured in Europe.
Condra has full GOST certification, the Russian Federation’s equivalent of ISO 9001, and has possessed proven Class 4 manufacturing capability for some years. Recently there has been increasing pressure on Condra to extend its robust and reliable line of Class 1, 2 and 3 cranes into Class 4. Vniiptmash, has also for some time been moving Condra towards Class 4 manufacture for the African market as a logical extension of its European focus on cranes with very heavy lifts and duties. Vniiptmash is one of eastern Europe’s preferred manufacturers of Class 4 cranes for nuclear power stations.
Implementation of the Class 4 capability will extend Condra’s product offering in Africa, all the way from 500 kg chain hoists, to the multi-hundred ton double-girder Class 4 overhead travelling cranes needed for Africa’s nuclear power plants of the future.
For more information contact Marc Kleiner, Condra Cranes, +27 (0)11 483 1511, [email protected], www.condra.co.za
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