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Let the CMAA Crane Buyer's Guide, on American Crane's homepage, help you decide which crane is appropriate for your specific need. The Crane Manufacturers Association of America (CMAA) is an organization of overhead traveling cranes and components. The CMAA has...

Pictured below are three drums which are mounted to a custom manufactured trolley frame and are vital to the movement of the lifted load on this custom built hoist. A hoisting drum is a cylindrical member which holds a wire rope for the purpose of lifting and...

Trust American Crane's Critical Lift Cranes for special applications when failure is not an option. These cranes were designed and built for handling: High Value Equipment (e.g. Satellites) Radioactive Containers Loads Carried Over Critical Equipment (e.g....

The SAFLIFT cask/canister system is designed to safely transport loaded transfer casks and canisters with the SAFLIFT strongback lower block from the spent fuel pool area to the canister transfer area. Once the tranfer cask and canister have been placed on top of...

Pictured below is a Helical Gear Motor. A Helical Gear Motor has the teeth cut at an angle to the center line of the gear. This kind of gear is useful because there is no chance of intermittent tooth-to-tooth operation since there are at least two teeth engaged at...

Power generation facilities require a wide range of products to handle the diverse material handling needs of production and maintenance teams. Whether your facility requires long lift hoists with tons of capacity, explosion proof cranes (like the double girder jib...

A trolley (pictured below) is a wheeled mechanism from which a hoist is suspended to provide horizontal motion of the hoist along a beam/bridge rail. Find this and more terms under Crane Glossary on American Crane & Equipment's Home Page....

Pictured below is a highly specialized under-slung carriage, supported by a double girder trolley. The geared "turn-table bearing" permits a 360 degree rotation of the carriage. In its final configuration, it will support four 10-ton monorail hoists, for a total...

Pictured below is a Grapple made of stainless steel specifically for the nuclear industry. This grapple will be used to move canisters that hold low and high level nuclear waste (sometimes called “spent fuel”) to transport casks to and from nuclear storage waste...