December 24, 2009: Press Release: 'Successful installation of new 2000-Series E-Crane® at Van Heyghen Recycling (Galloo Group)' - Loading scrap into Handymax vessels in the Port of Ghent, Belgium This E-Crane® with lifting capacity of 30 ton in grab mode (40 ton in hook mode) and reach of 38,2 meters will be used for loading scrap into mainly Handymax ships and lending assistance for the receiving, handling and stockpiling of the scrap on the yard. (Click here for printer-friendly version) (Click here for original) 'Successful installation of new 2000-Series E-Crane® at Van Heyghen Recycling (Galloo Group)' Loading scrap into Handymax vessels in the Port of Ghent, Belgium This E-Crane® with lifting capacity of 30 ton in grab mode (40 ton in hook mode) and reach of 38,2 meters will be used for loading scrap into mainly Handymax ships and lending assistance for the receiving, handling and stockpiling of the scrap on the yard. This E-Crane® really completes the cycle! In each phase of the scrap’s journey, an E-Crane® is now involved: 1. The scrap is offloaded from trucks, fed to shears and later loaded into smaller ships by a 700 Series E-Crane® (model 6317 on crawlers) in the Galloo scrap yard in Menen, or by the 1000 Series E-Crane® (model 7317, high gantry on rails) at Denolf Recycling (Galloo Group) in Brugge, Belgium. 2. On the quay of Van Heyghen Recycling in Ghent, the new 2000 Series E-Crane® unloads the ships with scrap coming from Menen or Brugge. The 2 E-Cranes, a 1000 Series E-Crane® model 7317-GAE and a 2000 Series E-Crane® model 21382-GAE, handle the scrap in the Ghent scrap yard. 3. Subsequently, in Ghent, the scrap is loaded into Handymax vessels by the new 2000 Series E-Crane®. 4. The first Handymax ship that the E-Crane® loaded (November 2009) was the ‘Monica P.’ who set sail to Turkey, her end destination being the Çolakoğlu Metalurji steel manufacturing plant, where another E-Crane® (a 1500 Series, type 9317-GAE) unloads the scrap and loads it into scrap baskets for transport to the electric furnace where the scrap will be melted. For more info about this and other E-Crane projects check out our website. Source: http://www.recyclingmagazine.nl     ©1999-2009 All Rights Reserved • E-Crane Worldwide • Contact Webmaster! • E-Crane Group of Companies / Indusign • Koekoeklaan 53 • B-9991 Adegem • Belgium • >>>> EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCTS BY EXTRA ORDINARY PEOPLE <<<<