Plicare Cranes Manufacturing Company

BBD Bag, Kolkata, West Bengal

Electrical Overhead Traveling (EOT) cranes are simplest type of cranes used in industries for maintenance purpose (mostly). The capacity can go up to 50 tons. EOT cranes can be single girder as well as double girder.  Single Girder Cranes: Single girder cranes are designed to give a high performance at lesser cost. It is deemed as cost effective and is typically used with low to medium capacity cranes. Plicare specializes in beam girder as well as box girder with very good designs carrying guaranteed performance.  Double Girder Cranes: Double girder cranes are generally used with high capacity loads and they provide much better lift when compared to single girder cranes. Double girder cranes run with a crab (trolley) on top. Due to their design advantage, maintenance becomes easy.  Underslung Cranes: Underslung Cranes consist of bridge girder fitted to end trucks operating on the lower load carrying flange of the runway girder usually supported from the building roof trusses.  Applications:  Industries with hot metal handling  Manufacturing industries such as steel castings, electric motors and more.  Handling of raw materials  Railway workshops  Paper mills

These are Hand Operated Cranes. HOT cranes are useful when the usage of cranes is very less. They run with a combination of pulleys, gears, pinions and chains with no electric usage, thus saving cost on that. These are much cheaper cranes than EOT, however, the operation is time consuming.   Applications:  Pump houses  Maintenance of small equipments

Goliath cranes are used in places where fabricating overhead runways would be a costly affair, lengthy and difficult to maintain the alignment. It runs on rails mounted on ground and can be moved to new locations relatively easier than overhead cranes. However, Goliath cranes are expensive due to more usage of steel but they save on the cost of overhead runway.   Applications:  Ports  Stockyards and scrapyards  Construction sites  Railway yards

Jib cranes are designed to have a hoist carrying arm (boom) which is mounted on a leg (mast) which in turn in either fixed on ground or on wall. The arm can rotate 360 degrees either electrically or manually with a slew chain. Jib cranes are of 2 types :- self-supporting pillar type or fixed wall bracket mounted type.   Applications:  Assembly floor operations  Loading and unloading areas  Machine shops