These types of cranes are wide enough to straddle an object and strong enough to lift and lower it. Gantry cranes are typically movable, either on wheels or rails, which make them more useful ...

According to USA-based gantry crane manufacturer J&R Engineering Co., the use of gantries has accelerated over recent years. It attributes this to the cost-effectiveness of gantries as compared to ...

Overhead gantry cranes are the workhorses inside heavy industry plants throughout the world, lifting massive loads that are either production inputs or the outputs of a plant’s manufacturing process.

often in industrial applications where you can’t get a crane in. First application of the new system was to install a 176 tonne transformer in a power plant in Germany. Before being moved indoors the ...

They are called gantry cranes – the kinds of machines usually seen at rail and shipping yards. They can lift a shipping container. The two gantry cranes on I-481 are an engineering solution to a ...

The Munckloader Gantry Crane was the first to utilize hydraulic jacks on the crane legs for the task of lifting the hatches, and using the gantry motion to the horizontally move and position the ...