STORGAE, HANDLING & DISTRIBUTION
Konecranes Demag UK
partners with WES Demag KBK extending cranes for
optimum use of workspace Nickel alloys cut three
times faster
Lifting equipment manufacturer and service
provider, Konecranes Demag UK Limited,
has reaffirmed its commitment to providing
equal employment opportunities by entering
into partnership with the WES. The move is
consistent with the company’s objective of
promoting the engineering sector to women
and recruiting female employees to establish a
more diverse workforce. Konecranes Demag is
taking an active role within the WES, attending
the organisation’s events and adopting best
practice procedures. The company will also
advertise technical vacancies on the WES
website, job boards and newsletters to make
job opportunities more accessible to female
engineers. Konecranes UK HR Director, Karen
Winfield, stated: “This is an issue about which
I am passionate and I am delighted that
Konecranes Demag is working with the WES
to inspire and support women in engineering
careers.” Demag Cranes & Components has added
overhung and extending configurations to its
KBK Aluline light crane system. Such solutions
are designed for applications where there is a
requirement to move loads beyond the crane
runway span dimension. They enable operators
to perform lifting and positioning tasks between
pillars and columns or deposit loads in aisles and
free areas between assembly zones and lines.
Depending on the load capacity, design and
profile section size, the range can be extended
by up to 3,100 mm. Crane extensions to either
side of the track runway span dimension may
also be specified, creating an even greater range
of crane coverage. Compared with Demag’s
conventional KBK crane kit, this configuration
has a lower headroom dimension, allowing
users to benefit from 120 to 220 mm more hook
path, dependent on profile size, for improved
utilisation of space below the crane girders. Specialist stockholder serving the oil and gas
industry, Howat Group, perhaps better known
by its trading names AMS, ESS and Ancon, has
installed a 14th Kasto bandsaw - a KASTOwin
pro AC 5.6 - at its new centre in Barnsley, which
opened at the end of 2018.
www.konecranes.co.uk
www.demagcranes.co.uk
The facility represents an investment of more
than £2 million by owner Malcolm Howat and
has been timed to coincide with the oil and gas
sector’s nascent emergence from a downturn
that started in 2014.
Half of the sum went on acquiring a freehold,
60,000 sq m property on Cortonwood Drive in
the Dearne Valley area of the city. The remainder
was spent on infrastructure, materials handling
equipment, two further Kasto bandsaws and
refurbishment of all the older models, some of
which have been in service since the 1990s and
still cut accurately.
www.kasto.com
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