- Strong: made from high-strength square mechanical tubing
- Stable: fully-braced uprights for solid I-beam positioning
- Portable: equipped with swivel casters with durable moldon polyurethane wheels for easy rolling and excellent floor protection
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E-Series stands for Economical, but don’t be confused. These gantries are heavy-duty, industrial-grade cranes designed for long service life.
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TRYING TO BOOST PRODUCTIVITY WITHOUT SACRIFICING SPACE?Spanco Ceiling-Mounted Workstation Bridge Cranes provide unlimited lifting coverage without sacrificing floor space or obstructing work areas. Our Ceiling-Mounted Workstation Bridge Cranes eliminate the need for steel supports, making them a cost effective and ergonomic material handling solution. Spanco Ceiling-Mounted Workstation Bridge Cranes make the most of your existing building and production floor space. These systems:
- Hang from existing building beams or trusses
- Require no system support columns, no attachments to building columns, and no production floor space
- Allow you to readily expand runway lengths and the number of bridges, and add transitions to monorail crane systems
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Spanco Monorail Cranes are ideal for production processes that require lifting and moving products along a fixed path, such as painting processes, moving raw materials to workstations, or warehouse-to-warehouse transfer. Ceiling-mounted monorails are great for applications with limited floorspace, facilities with large mobile equipment, and facility layouts that might change in the future. They can readily connect to other monorail systems to extend coverage to multiple work areas or your entire facility.
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400 Series Bridge-Mounted and Ceiling-Mounted Articulating Jib Cranes
- Offer more headroom and more clearance—both below and above the boom
- Outstanding headroom permits installation in tight locations, such as low ceilings or crowded shops
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These Spanco All-Aluminum Gantries quickly assemble and disassemble, making them popular with contractors who need highly mobile lift equipment that they can take in their service trucks. Just one or two workers can typically move a disassembled crane up stairways, onto roofs, or in other challenging locations. When on location, the gantry cranes are rapidly assembled, ready to lift, and able to position heavy objects precisely, such as bulky HVAC units. Because they are corrosion resistant, aluminum gantries are also ideal for refrigerated areas and other controlled environments, making them increasingly popular with HVAC contractors.
FEATURES OF SPANCO ALUMINUM GANTRY CRANES
- Crane Height Adjustments: Adjusting in 6-inch increments, height adjustment kits use spring-loaded steel locking pins that automatically engage when height positioning holes are reached; adjust heights for specific lifts, uneven floors, or to move through doorways.
- Adjustable Spans: Standard on aluminum cranes, adjustable spans are optional on steel cranes; adjustable spans allow the crane to be shortened for transport down narrow aisles.
- Heavy-Duty Casters: Four-position, swivel-lock casters with moldon polyurethane wheels provide excellent floor protection.
Common Product Uses
At Spanco, we are proud to serve customers in diverse industries. The Spanco A-Series Aluminum Gantry Crane is one of the most versatile models we produce and has some of the most unique applications of all Spanco systems. Some of the many ways customers have used our portable gantry cranes include:- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET): To preserve and document an extensive collection of Islamic rugs, the Metropolitan Museum of Art needed a lightweight material handling system that could assist with photographing detailed sections. They purchased a Spanco Aluminum Gantry Crane, which allowed them to create a digital archive while preserving the rugs’ integrity.
- HVAC company: An Indiana-based HVAC company needed a material lifting solution that could be used at multiple job sites for commercial and residential clients. Multiple one and two-ton Spanco Aluminum Gantry Cranes provided lightweight and portable solution they needed to move air conditioners and other heavy HVAC units on the job.
- Automotive Garage: Since Extreme Performance and Off-Road is a custom car garage, its mechanics often remove or replace engines with a two-ton engine hoist. A Spanco Aluminum Gantry Crane allowed the team to improve efficiency for a variety of tasks and provide higher-quality services.
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Spanco Alu-Track® is made from lightweight aluminum enclosed track to provide super-responsive crane performance.
- The entire length of the top side of the track accepts hangers. The aluminum tracks are easily and precisely aligned.
- The internally tapered track self-centers trolleys and end trucks, so rolling movement is smooth, quiet, and highly ergonomic.
- Clean environments
- Refrigerated areas, including food packaging applications
- Moisture-laden environments
- Acidic environments (but not for base/alkaline)
- R&D labs
- Wherever lightweight, durable enclosed track is required
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Features of Spanco T-Series Gantry Cranes
- Superior Stability: Engineered design leaves I-beam free to pivot as it self-centers over the load. The “true A-frame” design helps to maintain greater stability, virtually eliminating the swaying motion common to other 3-way adjustable gantry designs. Main legs, brace legs, and caster frames are made of heavy-gauge, square tubing with zinc-plated hardware.
- Adjustable Span: Exclusive Spanloc™ design securely holds the I-beam during adjustments and when set.
- Cantilever Options: Deliver materials through end of gantry; cantilever up to 25 percent of the rated capacity (4-foot max.) using a counterweight.
- Adjustable Height: Adjust in 6-inch intervals using push/pull pins on main legs.
- Adjustable Tread: A cable assembly is bolted inside the caster frame tubes to prevent overspreading.
- Heavy-Duty Casters: Four position, swivel-lock casters with moldon polyurethane wheels protect floors from damage.
Common Uses
Spanco is proud to serve customers in various industries, such as Space Exploration Technologies or SpaceX. SpaceX designs rockets and spacecraft and manufactures over half of its vehicles in-house. Their facility contains several work areas, including fabrication, machining, construction, and assembly cells. Workers at the facility needed a material handling solution to move heavy loads throughout their facility with increased accuracy and precision. That solution came in the form of a two-ton Spanco T-Series Gantry Crane. The T-Series Gantry Crane also provides greater adjustability to meet the rapidly changing size requirements within the SpaceX facility. Investing in a T-Series Gantry Crane allows SpaceX to improve production time and processing. By implementing the T-Series Gantry Crane, SpaceX could combine flexibility and precision while maintaining lift and cost-efficiency. -
Features of Spanco A-Series Steel Gantry Cranes
- Crane Height Adjustments: Adjusting in 6-inch increments, height adjustment kits use spring-loaded steel locking pins that automatically engage when height positioning holes are reached; adjust heights for specific lifts, uneven floors, or to move through doorways
- Adjustable Spans: Standard on aluminum cranes, adjustable spans are optional on steel cranes; adjustable spans allow the crane to be shortened for transport down narrow aisles
- Heavy-Duty Casters: Four-position, swivel-lock casters with moldon polyurethane wheels provide excellent floor protection
Common Product Uses
The A-Series Gantry Crane design is one of the most popular system options available from Spanco. And, as one of the original designs from the founding of the company, has stood the test of time as a reliable material handling solution. Many different users have implemented Spanco A-Series Gantry Cranes in a wide range of industries, including:- Manufacturing plants
- Machine shops
- Warehouses
- Construction
- Maintenance Facilities