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Street Crane Co Ltd
Chapel-en-le-Frith
High Peak
SK23 0PH
United Kingdom

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Heavy Duty Cranes for New Innovate Round Oak Rail to Road Steel Transfer and Handling Facility

To increase capacity up to 1.25 million tonnes of steel per year Innovate Round Oak Rail has invested in five heavy-duty overhead cranes from Street Crane Company. Innovate are a logistics partner of Corus and the £1 million investment in new cranes is part of a major £6 million refit to their Midlands rail-to-road transfer depot.

The development at Round Oak will play a crucial role in distributing steel to the automotive industry, steel stockholders and service centres throughout central England. Receiving 20 trainloads of steel per week from Llanwern, the steel must be rapidly offloaded and held in store until it is reloaded on to trucks for its final road journey.

The turnkey Street contract included the removal of three of the existing cranes and installation of five new double girder overhead travelling cranes. Four of the new cranes are rated at 35 tonnes safe working load and one at 42 tonnes. On new and retained cranes, six coil grabs have been installed and one magnetic coil lift. New crane rails of 750 metres have been erected with 712 metres of high-level safety lines.

The efficient processing of high volumes of steel demands high-speed precision load movement. The new cranes all include inverter control for smooth power take up and acceleration, while Street’s X-Y-Zero load stability system on all motions prevents load swing, assures safety and reduces loading cycles. Due to the high intensity usage, all hoists and mechanisms are rated heavy-duty M8 classification.

The 140,000 square foot Round Oak facility can hold up to 60,000 tonnes of steel. Using lean operation methods, the facility meets the just in time needs of Midlands manufacturers thanks to the reliability of Street’s equipment that plays a key role in the receipt and retrieval of material.


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Street Crane Company, Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak, SK23 0PH, UK

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This is part of a major £6 million refit to Innovate's Midlands rail-to-road transfer depot (opens new window)

£1 million investment in new cranes from Street at Innovate Round Oak.


New grabs have also been fitted to retained cranes at Innovate (opens new window)

6 coil grabs and a magnetic coil lift have been installed.


Safe lifting is assured by Street's equipment (opens new window)

4 of the new cranes are rated 35 tonnes SWL and one at 42 tonnes.


Preventing load swing assures safety and reduces loading cycle times (opens new window)

Load stability systems help prevent load swing.



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