Konepaja Enne Oy is part of Finland’s one hundred years of industrial history. Konepaja Enne is a family-owned company established in 1954 in Tampere, located in the southwestern part of the country. Konepaja Enne Oy has grown from being a manufacturer of roof sheet metal products to manufacturing heavy sheet metal products and large highly complex machined components. 

“Passion, innovation, and commitment—this is how we see our business.” This is the motto of José Boix, the founder of the company Boix Maquinaria with headquarters in San Isidrio (Alicante), in the southeast of Spain. Boix Maquinaria is one of the world leaders for machines used for forming, folding, and closing of boxes made of corrugated cardboard or of solid fibre board.

The special purpose vehicle of the German haulage firm Hegmann makes its way slowly onto the premises of the heavy cargo terminal where they are already waiting for its heavy load, a pressure vessel for BASF. Inside the logistics building they unload the pressure vessel from the lorry and then they process and store it there.

Morris Cranes, a Division of Morris Material Handling SA (Pty) Ltd., a wholly owned South African company and the Sub-Saharan agent of ABUS Kransysteme GmbH has supplied and installed lifting equipment at Caterpillar in Kempton Park, Johannesburg.

“Miroiterie Righetti” is the oldest glass processing company in Lorraine, in northeast France. This family business was founded in 1835 by Charles Righetti and has remained under the management of the founder family until this day. 20 staff are employed by the company at present.

You might need up to a dozen machines to run through a coil with copper wire thick as a finger to end up as coated and shielded cables fit for data transfer. The production of such cables requires understanding of materials science, knowledge of process engineering, and expertise of material processing.

Normally cranes are installed in completed plants. It is therefore quite an unusual application to have an EOT crane installed during the construction phase of a building. This happened at Jokey Plastik in Gummersbach, a company specialising in packaging: they installed the ABUS EOT crane to be used as building crane at first in order to add another storey to the existing production plant.

The human wrist is a highly complex articulated structure being capable of a great variety of functions. Exact interaction of the individual joint parts makes this multifunctionality possible. A person can turn the wrist, tilt it at different angles, and use it as stabilising or propping element depending on the task to be performed.

Timber is quite a versatile raw material as well as construction material: this is well demonstrated by the company Käser Holzbau in Weier, in the Emmental valley in west central Switzerland. Käser Holzbau has 20 personnel and is known in the region for their varied timber construction works, be it joinery work, building new wooden houses, carpentry works, wood construction systems, farm houses, or agricultural or industrial buildings. 

It is quite challenging to produce a wide variety of plastic products: you have to overcome many a technological and organisational hurdle. Cranes have an important role to play in the production process as they not only afford precise positioning of the load but are also characterised by a high degree of reliability and availability.