Steel Industry Cranes

Konecranes has long experience in designing, manufacturing and delivering steel mill cranes and has industry-specific know-how of the industry environment and the steel-making process.

Konecranes delivers the highest lifecycle value driven by proven, integrated and intelligent lifting solutions with advanced, efficient technologies and proactive, flexible service relationships. This all means:

•  High-quality, well-engineered solutions with proven results.
•  In-depth steel industry knowledge, offering solutions for every stage of the steel-making process. Integration of equipment and service.
•  Innovative steel mill cranes pioneer developments in steel-making today. Redundant features together with AC variable frequency controls offer substantial maintenance savings and reduction in downtime. Sophisticated control systems include advanced diagnostics and crane monitoring that fine-tune crane performance.
•  Advanced and efficient technologies with lighter structures and leaner dimensions, more built-in electronics and a total design approach, with the goal of eliminating traditional steel mill crane maintenance problems – dirt, heat, machinery access, and limited time for maintenance.
• Attentive, professional and flexible service solutions that improve industry processes and productivity and enhance customer relationships.

Product range

Each lifting application in a steel mill presents its own challenges and unique environment. Beginning with bulk unloading, scrap yard cranes  and charging cranes, the stakes increase with high-capacity ladle cranes transporting molten metal. In the same area as ladle cranes are tundish cranes, which have to stand the same harsh environment where all maintenance cranes serve the continuous casting machine.
Heavy-duty slab cranes or billet cranes  feed the rolling mill and are therefore critical to its operation. Coil, bar and plate handling cranes  in the rolling area must also be able to handle high heat and new automated processes for accelerated water-cooling. Just-in-time delivery requires shipping area cranes and Lift trucks  on the factory field to perform at high speeds with excellent reliability.