Konecranes introduces new mobile crane
Konecranes has mounted its popular CXT electric overhead travelling crane on a steel frame & two standard ISO shipping containers to create a powerful, adaptable, fully mobile industrial crane, the CXT Explorer.
“This is an outstanding opportunity for our customers to improve their lifting operations efficiency and safety on the field. This new product category brings the quality and safety of lifting from the factory building to remote site conditions” says Olli Kuismanen, General Manager, Konecranes Business Factory.
The CXT Explorer is a standard industrial crane that can be taken almost anywhere. The punchline is its patented design: it can be assembled, ready to lift, in just a few hours. With a lifting height of 5 meters and a span of 5 meters, there is plenty of room for most field lifting needs. Yet its compact size allows easy travel. On leaving, the crane can be dismantled quickly, and the shipping containers that form its base double as storage for the crane components, service tools, equipment, and spare parts.
Sometimes an industrial crane is needed in a location for only a short period of time. A typical short-term use is vehicle maintenance in a location where a fixed overhead crane would be too expensive, take too long to install, and require a major redesign of the work space around it. In some cases, such a crane could not be installed at all, as it is needed where there is no power, or even no building. In prolonged use the crane represents a cost efficient investment. To make an industrial crane mobile, the Konecranes CXT crane was refitted to a new structure. But the CXT Explorer is more compact and flexible: all the user needs is enough space for two ISO shipping containers, room to access them, and a full maintenance workshop, assembly station or logistics hub becomes available.
Safety, reliability and productivity are at the core of every Konecranes crane, and the CXT Explorer is no exception. Because the strong and wide container base provides full support, and operation is from the ground, it’s more stable than a standard mobile crane.
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