American Crane & Equipment Corporation

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Douglassville, PA

American Crane & Equipment Corporation is a leading manufacturer of cranes, hoists and other material handling equipment, as well as components and parts for standard, custom and nuclear applications. Our three plants feature a 226,000 square-foot combined capacity of manufacturing space and 150-ton lifting capacity. American Crane & Equipment Corporation has one of the largest floor type horizontal boring mills in the Northeastern United States along with an onsite 200-ton load testing tower.

American Crane & Equipment Corporation made the strategic decision to maintain in-house resources for engineering, manufacturing and field service needs to assure consistent quality and schedule adherence. Our engineering staff consists of seasoned mechanical, electrical and structural engineers, including world class nuclear seismic experts. Our engineering capabilities include mechanical and machine design, structural design, and analyses, dynamic modeling and seismic, failure modes and effects analyses, complete control system design, remote systems, automated systems, software development (including real time graphics), complete licensing success with NRC, and support for 50.59 evaluations.

American Crane & Equipment Corporation’s Service & Parts Department can provide services such as load testing, product support, outage support, retrofit and upgrades, OSHA and other inspections, spare parts and custom fabrications. Our parts department maintains an online catalog of over 40,000 items featuring standard cranes and hoists, rigging, trolleys, lifting devices, spare parts and much more. We are passionate about building high quality specialty lifting equipment and solving complex material handling problems. We believe in providing our customers with the right equipment for the application. We want to be the best in the world at custom material handling solutions.

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Electric Hoist

Electric Hoist

Electric hoists are material handling equipment used for lifting, lowering, and transporting materials and products. They are powered by an electric motor and have a controller to adjust the lifting parameters...

Gantry Crane

Gantry Crane

A gantry crane is an overhead crane that has an overhead beam supported by freestanding legs and moves on wheels, a track, or rail system carrying a bridge, trolley, and hoist. Workshops, warehouses, freight yards, railroads, and shipyards use gantry cranes as their lifting solution as a variation of overhead or bridge cranes...

Jib Cranes

Jib Cranes

A jib crane is a lifting device with an arm or boom that extends off the main body of the crane to provide extra reach and has a lattice design to lower the weight added to a load. The design of jib cranes allows them to work...

Hydraulic Lifts

Hydraulic Lifts

A hydraulic lift is a device for moving objects using force created by pressure on a liquid inside a cylinder that moves a piston upward. Incompressible oil is pumped into the cylinder, which forces the piston upward. When a valve opens to release the oil, the piston lowers by gravitational force...

Overhead Cranes

Overhead Cranes

An overhead crane is a type of heavy duty machinery that is capable of moving extremely heavy loads and equipment from one location to another in a safe and precise manner using the overhead space of a manufacturing facility. Due to the nature of the work they perform...

Wire Rope

Wire Rope

Wire rope is a collection of metal strands that have been twisted and wound to form the shape of a helix with the purpose of supporting and lifting heavy loads and performing tasks that are too rigorous for standard wire...

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