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Today everybody knows what a carbon “footprint” is, at a global level and personal level. Reducing our carbon footprint is in everybody’s interest. Konecranes is reducing its own carbon footprint in many different ways – by running our manufacturing operations with renewable electricity, for example. Our goal is that all of our factories will run on renewable electricity by the end of 2025.
If decreasing our carbon footprint is one side of the coin, then increasing our handprint is the other side of the coin. Our handprint is the good we can do, by increasing the eco-efficiency of the products and services that we deliver to our customers. This is a never-ending mission, and we’ve been doing it for a long time with Powered by Ecolifting.
At Konecranes we know that there’s always more that we can do. When one eco-efficiency milestone is reached, another is revealed. Let’s put our handprints together and see what happens.
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In early 2000, a Konecranes sales manager was scouting around Louisiana in the USA for new business. On the Mississippi River, he noticed that there was a big need for new bulk handling equipment that could be maneuvered on the water. The existing equipment was old and inefficient. An idea came to him: our existing mobile harbor crane concept could be placed on barges, making something uniquely suited to the region – like the alligator. On his next visit to the mobile harbor crane technology center in Germany, he put his idea in front of the engineering team. They were excited by the engineering challenge. They went to the drawing board and came up with initial drawings that married the mobile harbor crane concept and a floating barge. They had developed a special pedestal to put between the crane and the floating barge, making the marriage a happy one.
The sales manager took the drawings and showed them to several potential customers on the Mississippi River. There was interest. One Louisiana stevedoring company was especially interested, and agreed to develop a “crane on barge” prototype with Konecranes. The parties agreed to share the work, with the customer taking responsibility for the barge and Konecranes taking responsibility for the crane and pedestal. Both parties would take their equipment back without blaming each other if the concept did not work as expected.
It did work as expected, and better. That first customer ordered more and more Konecranes Gottwald cranes on barges to cope with their growing bulk handling needs. The new cranes provided very efficient bulk handling in “mid-stream” applications such as trans-shipping coal, fertilizer and the like from ocean-going vessels to Mississippi River barges. Other stevedoring companies in the region noticed, and began to purchase cranes on barges. Today, around 20 cranes on barges are working on the lower Mississippi River. They are familiar landmarks over the low-lying South Louisiana landscape. Konecranes has also delivered an “open-sea gator” version: over 10 Konecranes Gottwald cranes on barges are working in the open sea around the world.
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The Core of Lifting is the heart of almost every crane product that Konecranes makes. It’s the package of motor, gear reducer and control system that is the foundation of the crane’s performance. Konecranes designs and manufactures these key components in-house, specifically for cranes and lifting motions. We also design the interaction between the key components and the software, as a whole, specifically for lifting.
We put in the extra effort, and have been doing so since around 1930, because we believe that deep expertise in special technologies is what makes Konecranes products stand out. For you as a customer, it means that you get the right crane. Also for your wallet.
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In 1995, we told our customer, if they didn’t like our new rtgs, we’d take them back.
They called...
...to order more RTGs. Over 140 to date. Times have changed. Our legal department probably wouldn’t let us give such a guarantee anymore. What hasn’t changed is that our original RTG concept is still the industry standard for productivity and reliability.
Some years ago, one of our automation engineers got tired of climbing up and down our automated RMG cranes to calibrate their machine vision equipment. The calibration process was cumbersome. It required a plumb bob laser to project the trolley laser locations on the ground. The cranes were at a customer terminal located close to the Equator, so the strong sun made the laser spot very difficult to detect during the day. So the calibration work was done in the dark. Then a movable reflector structure had to be placed directly below the laser used to configure the laser rotation. The calibration work had to be done from a manlift in part, because some of the lasers weren’t accessible otherwise. Moreover, someone had to be at ground level at the same time with a laser detector to see where the trolley lasers were pointing to. Then this person guided the person in the manlift to adjust the angle, iteration after iteration, until it was done right.
What a hassle. Our engineer had a flash of genius. He moved the lasers down to the spreaders where they would be closer to the action, and easily reachable at ground level. But he didn’t stop there. He even found a way to eliminate the time-consuming and exhausting calibration process altogether – and, with it, the downtime it causes. Everybody was happier, the customer especially.
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These days, everybody knows what a carbon “footprint” is, at a global level and personal level. It’s in everybody’s interest to reduce our carbon footprint. Konecranes is on a mission to reduce its own carbon footprint in many different ways – by running our manufacturing operations with renewable electricity, for example. Our goal is that all of our factories will run on renewable electricity by the end of 2025.
If decreasing our carbon footprint is one side of the coin, then increasing our handprint is the other side of the coin. Our handprint is the good we can do, by increasing the eco-efficiency of the products and services that we deliver to our customers. This is a never-ending mission, and we’ve been doing it for a long time with Powered by Ecolifting.
Discover the wildest and deepest offering in container handling
These days, everybody knows what a carbon “footprint” is, at a global level and personal level. It’s in everybody’s interest to reduce our carbon footprint. Konecranes is on a mission to reduce its own carbon footprint in many different ways – by running our manufacturing operations with renewable electricity, for example. Our goal is that all of our factories will run on renewable electricity by the end of 2025.
If decreasing our carbon footprint is one side of the coin, then increasing our handprint is the other side of the coin. Our handprint is the good we can do, by increasing the eco-efficiency of the products and services that we deliver to our customers. This is a never-ending mission, and we’ve been doing it for a long time with Powered by Ecolifting.
Discover the wildest and deepest offering in container handling
These days, everybody knows what a carbon “footprint” is, at a global level and personal level. It’s in everybody’s interest to reduce our carbon footprint. Konecranes is on a mission to reduce its own carbon footprint in many different ways – by running our manufacturing operations with renewable electricity, for example. Our goal is that all of our factories will run on renewable electricity by the end of 2025.
If decreasing our carbon footprint is one side of the coin, then increasing our handprint is the other side of the coin. Our handprint is the good we can do, by increasing the eco-efficiency of the products and services that we deliver to our customers. This is a never-ending mission, and we’ve been doing it for a long time with Powered by Ecolifting.
Discover the wildest and deepest offering in container handling
These days, everybody knows what a carbon “footprint” is, at a global level and personal level. It’s in everybody’s interest to reduce our carbon footprint. Konecranes is on a mission to reduce its own carbon footprint in many different ways – by running our manufacturing operations with renewable electricity, for example. Our goal is that all of our factories will run on renewable electricity by the end of 2025.
If decreasing our carbon footprint is one side of the coin, then increasing our handprint is the other side of the coin. Our handprint is the good we can do, by increasing the eco-efficiency of the products and services that we deliver to our customers. This is a never-ending mission, and we’ve been doing it for a long time with Powered by Ecolifting.
Discover the wildest and deepest offering in container handling
These days, everybody knows what a carbon “footprint” is, at a global level and personal level. It’s in everybody’s interest to reduce our carbon footprint. Konecranes is on a mission to reduce its own carbon footprint in many different ways – by running our manufacturing operations with renewable electricity, for example. Our goal is that all of our factories will run on renewable electricity by the end of 2025.
If decreasing our carbon footprint is one side of the coin, then increasing our handprint is the other side of the coin. Our handprint is the good we can do, by increasing the eco-efficiency of the products and services that we deliver to our customers. This is a never-ending mission, and we’ve been doing it for a long time with Powered by Ecolifting.
Discover the wildest and deepest offering in container handling
These days, everybody knows what a carbon “footprint” is, at a global level and personal level. It’s in everybody’s interest to reduce our carbon footprint. Konecranes is on a mission to reduce its own carbon footprint in many different ways – by running our manufacturing operations with renewable electricity, for example. Our goal is that all of our factories will run on renewable electricity by the end of 2025.
If decreasing our carbon footprint is one side of the coin, then increasing our handprint is the other side of the coin. Our handprint is the good we can do, by increasing the eco-efficiency of the products and services that we deliver to our customers. This is a never-ending mission, and we’ve been doing it for a long time with Powered by Ecolifting.
Discover the wildest and deepest offering in container handling
These days, everybody knows what a carbon “footprint” is, at a global level and personal level. It’s in everybody’s interest to reduce our carbon footprint. Konecranes is on a mission to reduce its own carbon footprint in many different ways – by running our manufacturing operations with renewable electricity, for example. Our goal is that all of our factories will run on renewable electricity by the end of 2025.
If decreasing our carbon footprint is one side of the coin, then increasing our handprint is the other side of the coin. Our handprint is the good we can do, by increasing the eco-efficiency of the products and services that we deliver to our customers. This is a never-ending mission, and we’ve been doing it for a long time with Powered by Ecolifting.
Discover the wildest and deepest offering in container handling