Bespoke Cranes for Lean and Flexible Hose Manufacturing Facility
Serving the world-wide oil and gas industry, Dunlop Oil & Marine produce specialist hoses for demanding applications for every stage of oil and gas field development. New overhead process cranes from Street Crane Company have been installed to meet the unique process requirements. These cranes have been specially engineered to fit the existing structure which presented a limited height envelope.
Overhead cranes play a crucial role in efficiently manufacturing hoses of different construction, easily switching production from one hose type to another in response to the varying and urgent demands of Dunlop’s global oil and gas customers. Hoses are formed on long mandrels of a defined diameter around which the hose is built using resins and reinforcement in a specified pattern. Cranes are needed to load the mandrels onto the hose fabrication machines and to offload the completed product for transportation down the workshop for testing.
In the main production area Street have provided two triple-girder cranes of 9.6 tonnes, with a 3.2 tonne hoist on each beam to support the long hose lengths. These cranes may be operated singly or electronically synchronised to move together when double length hoses are produced.