Ladle Handling Crane

Ladle  cranes (ladle handling cranes or casting ladle crane) are used to transport molten steel ladles in foundries and steel mills.
Foundry cranes are superior performance cranes operating in both high temperature and high amount of dust environments.

Almost all parts of ladle cranes are designed to work under more difficult conditions compared to other cranes.

Charge cranes are use in meltshop factory.

Meltshop cranes generally work in teams with each other. While the liquid steel ladle crane is working to pour the melt into the manufacturing line, the meltshop crane transports the rolling stock from here.

Steel Mill Ladle Crane (ladle handling cranes or casting ladle crane) is one of the dedicated heavy duty cranes among many series of crane products. weihua crane group provide the steel mill ladle cranes with the tons of 50 to 500. Such capacity design takes serious consideration of the sizes and scales of our customers’ steel mills or warehouses. According to the specific requirements of our customers, we provide a different kind of steel mill ladle cranes products.

 

 

The ladle crane (ladle handling cranes or casting ladle crane) structure forms mainly consist of four-beam and four-track double trolley, four-beam and six-track double trolley for crane load capacity over 200 tons and double-beam single trolley, and double-beam main and auxiliary trolley for crane with work load below 200 tons.

 

Casting cranes (ladle handling cranes or casting ladle crane) with work load above 300 tons adopt the overall large reducer model, which improves the stress situations of the main trolley, avoids the disadvantage of excessive pressure on the main trolley, and can obtain a smaller left and right limit of the trolley and  improves the safety and reliability of the lifting mechanism.

 

Small and medium-sized casting cranes can adopt double-beam and double-track single trolleys, double trolleys, main and auxiliary trolleys. With advantages of light deadweight, small size, and large limit size on one side.

 

Main Features and Benefits of Weihua Ladle Handling Crane

 

1. Weihua ladle cranes are controlled and driven by Siemens PLC and Siemens inverters. At the same time, Profinet is used for communication between PLC and inverter. It is equipped with communication detection function, which can detect the working status of each station in real time.

2. A monitoring system is installed to monitor the working status of the crane in real time.

3. The hoisting mechanism of the ladle crane adopts redundant system design to ensure the safety and reliability of lifting liquid metal.

4. It is with wireless transmission and electronic scales, real-time transmission of the weight of liquid metal.

5. Each ladle crane is designed with an electric room, and an electric fan is installed in the electric room to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the electrical equipment.

6. The ladle crane hoisting mechanism adopts the planetary reducer structure. If one motor fails, it can still complete the lifting work in a short time.

7. Mother-child trolley to realize the unmanned automatic hanging ladle and save the cost.

8. The overall design is with lightweight and compact structure.

9. Low height, light self-weight, small hook limit, large working range.

10. Weihua cranes use high-quality components, which are durable, safe and reliable.

11. Less maintenance and repair costs.

12. The ladle crane designed and produced by many engineers has low total power and low energy consumption.

13. The ladle crane uses a frequency converter, which is stable in lifting and low in impact.

 

Steel plant application case

Weihua provided 14 cranes for ArcelorMittal, including two 250-ton metallurgical ladle cranes, four 80-ton double-girder bridge cranes, two 25-ton grab cranes and six 25-ton electromagnetic cranes. These 14 cranes are all used in the new steelmaking workshop of the Ukrainian branch of the ArcelorMittal Group, which is now in fully operation.

 

 

Weihua Provided Overhead Crane for Steel Plant in Malaysia, Which is Now in Fully Operation.

 

 

Weihua Provided 8 Sets EOT Cranes for Turkey ISDEMIR Steel Company  

 

 

Weihua Provided 500 Sets Cranes for Malaysia Alliance Steel (M) SDN BHD