Street Crane Company, a crane supplier to the steel, stockholding, fabrication and coating industries, is celebrating orders from two galvanisers.

Wedge Galvanizing have purchased two special 10-tonne double-girder cranes for their Worksop plant and Dorman Long Engineering is buying three double-girder overhead cranes and two semi-Goliath travelling cranes for their new Nigerian galvanising operation.  Both projects will be delivered before the year end and have a combined value of over £300,000 ($601 million). 
“The orders underpin Street’s expertise in the supply of electric overhead travelling cranes (EOTCs) to this key market,” Street said.
At Worksop, where Wedge operates the longest galvanising bath in Europe, the company is modernising to increase crane lifting capability and improve material throughput.  The new cranes, each double girder with hoists of 10 tonnes safe working load, will be used in the pre-treatment bay for sequential de-greasing, rinsing and fluxing of both components and large structures prior to hot-dip galvanising.
Dorman Long Engineering is the largest fabricator of process equipment, pressure vessels and steelwork in Nigeria and principal supplier to the oil and gas sector and construction industry.  Their order is for three overhead gantry cranes, each of five tonnes safe working load and two semi-goliath cranes, each with twin hoists of five tonnes safe working load.  These are also engineered for demanding and continuous use in a hot and dusty environment. They are destined for a new galvanising plant with an annual capacity of 50,000 tonnes.
This is the first major hot-dip galvanising plant in Nigeria.  It is being built to support an initiative by the Nigerian government to develop local engineering capacity for the energy and construction industries.  The galvanising plant is just one part of a major expansion of Dorman Long’s Nigerian operations.
Street Crane will supply the designs and the electro-mechanical components from the UK.  The heavy structural elements will be fabricated in Nigeria by Dorman Long Engineering to Street’s specifications.
In addition to making the Street Crane package more competitive, in-country fabrication of the crane steelwork benefits the Nigerian economy by saving foreign currency and creating more skilled work locally.