Morris Cranes (Lloyds Somers authorised distributor in South Africa) won the business against strong competition from Japanese manufacturers. The Somers product being chosen due to its proven coil damage prevention features.
Somers ”coil friendly” Lifters are now in place at Toyota South Africa, Toyota France, Toyota U.K. The product has become an important part of the coil handling process worldwide wherever coil damage prevention is paramount.
Use of the grab enabled the company to complete the flue wall replacement programme within a particularly tight deadline. During one meeting with the client Lloyds Somers were informed, “The Flue Wall Replacement Project has been scheduled around the time savings which will be gained by utilising this bespoke designed grab”. No pressure then!
The lifting legs rotate through 90o to collect or offload the billets.
A single actuator is mechanically linked to each of the lifting legs to provide a positive and repeatable motion whilst minimising any maintenance requirements. Each leg is electrically monitored to ensure safe operation the lifter.
The lifter is suitable for handling round, square or irregular shaped billets of varying length.
The lifter negates the need to manually sling the billets and therefore removes any potential for operator injury during the handling process.
Lloyds Somers have developed a “reeved in” coil lifter which will give additional clearance for Coil Stockholders and Processors.
The lifters can be supplied with built in ancillary lifting hooks or a lifting beam to ensure the crane can be used for normal slinging purposes as and when required.
SAIL (Steel Authority of India Ltd) have ordered a 30 Tonne Motorised Quadruplex Tong with Slew (shown above) for their Rourkela Plant plus 110 Tonne and 40 Tonne Duplex Slab Tongs for their Bokaro Steel Plant.
HEC (Heavy Engineering Corporation) of Ranchi have ordered a 46 Tonne Motorised Slab Tong for use with one of their E.O.T.C’s with a final destination at Bhilai Steel Plant which is scheduled for shipment from the UK in July.
Lloyds Somers, have also been awarded an order to supply ESSAR Steel of Mumbai with an 85 Tonne Motorised Duplex Slab Tong with a quick change over facility as part of their expansion plans.
Panels and Profiles had experienced some problems with the magnet (whys, wherefores and reasons unknown) but have taken the advice from Corus’s Main Mills and invested in a “coil friendly” Somers Lifter.
The anti coil damage features originally evolved through requirements specified from within the Corus Group (previously British Steel) and have been developed and perfected over many years into the proven product that is available today.
