Only a few months have passed since Pelloby's 50th anniversary. Paola De Pascali reviewed the products and services they provide today and reviewed their half-century lifting experience.
Pelloby was founded in Telford, Shropshire in 1968, initially focusing on the design and manufacture of jib cranes. Although the company's product portfolio has been widely diversified over the years, jib cranes are still at the core of its daily operations.
Pelloby Marketing Manager Jonathan Ferris said: "We are the largest manufacturer of jib cranes in the UK, offering column, wall, articulated and special jibs of any size and lifting capacity. For the past five years, Pelloby has been a leader in jib cranes. The preferred name of the United Kingdom.
"We provide fast quotation and production time for all standard cantilever cranes, whether it is an over-supported or under-supported rear cantilever, a wall-mounted model, or a heavy-duty 360° power slewing system, and we are also the company that people turn to for more complex applications Professional jib crane."
The latest examples of Pelloby’s custom jib crane design and manufacturing capabilities can be seen in the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the Science and Technical Facilities Committee in Oxfordshire, where a 5t inverted jib crane travels on a 53m gantry rail When providing a complete 360° rotation. It has been installed. From bridge crane to automatic handling
Today, Pelloby offers a wide range of cranes to suit various applications in various industries.
Overhead cranes are a key product line, and just like their jib cranes, each crane is custom-designed to suit the application at hand. Ferris said that the scope of the design and manufacturing project for the new bridge crane undertaken by Pelloby is indeed considerable:
“We can take these two projects as examples: the production of a simple 1t bridge crane for Safran Landing Systems GLS, and the contract signed with the BMW Group’s Swindon MINI plant, which is 12 months old.”
Safran cranes are a replacement for the old system, but the key is to use a special stool design that can provide a higher lifting height. Each BMW crane has a span of 21.7m and is installed on the existing gantry steel frame with a lifting height of 9.8m. The horizontal travel and lifting movement of the wire rope hoist device and the variable speed options of the long-stroke movement of the crane are controlled by the joystick radio remote control. To help achieve safe working practices, two walkways were constructed on both sides of the crane to facilitate maintenance.
Another bridge crane project that requires professional design is the turntable system Pelloby made for Special Metals in Hereford. The British alloy manufacturing company approached Pelloby, hoping to provide a system to help them simplify the operations of the foundry because they needed a way to move long or heavy goods and materials quickly between different workstations or storage locations. Rotate them.
The finished crane adopts a 360° slewing trolley device, which can move freely along two 23m-long double-beam overhead beams. The dual 8 ton Eurobloc gourds are located on both sides of the crab device and support the weight of an overall safe working load of 16 tons.
Marcus Upcott, Engineering Supervisor at Special Metals, explained that this bespoke bridge crane perfectly fulfilled its design goals. Upcott said: "In the past, we might have to use forklifts to ensure that these goods are facing the right direction before they are ready to use an existing crane in the foundry. Being able to rotate them while the material is moving has helped greatly improve our work. efficient."
Ferris added: “Pelloby's small A-frame cranes are very popular among injection molding companies because they are very suitable for facilitating tool changes between production runs.
"When you combine gantry cranes, monorail cranes, tailor-made lifting beams, and the products below the hook accessories, it is clear that Pelloby can specify solutions from a truly diverse product range."
Pelloby's design department continues to accept new challenges, thus breaking the limits of the company's product portfolio. Laser scanner technology plays a greater role in improving the accuracy of crane movement and improving safety standards.
"As Pelloby produces fully customized automated handling systems for high-tech applications, automation is also an increasingly common feature," Ferris said. "Their ground transport vehicle is a steerable platform that can carry loads of up to 100 tons anywhere, and can be completely remotely programmed through computer software to route routes around the workplace. "Pelloby's Hook products have been improving, and their load steering The device has become particularly popular. These innovative devices are a fast and effective way to fully rotate goods and materials to any angle in order to work at the bottom. "
Leanne Wright, Pelloby's service manager, said that once the crane is up and running, Pelloby will continue to provide support and provide ongoing service contracts.
The Pelloby service department provides maintenance contracts for each crane manufactured by the company, as well as passing inspections and inspections of equipment under the hook, including equipment not manufactured by Pelloby. The engineers also participated in the solicitation of failures in all aspects of cranes and lifting equipment across the country. The service department has many global customers, and they receive visits for preventive maintenance and spare parts recommendations every year.
Wright also explained that the department has recently hired an engineer to meet the growing demand: “We are currently experiencing a period of growth for the Pelloby service team. We now have greater capabilities to respond to upcoming failures and faster Provide maintenance. Our truck fleet is ready and waiting to travel around the UK to increase the service life of lifting equipment."
In addition to repairs, the Pelloby service team also provides safety inspections and purchases spare parts for any lifting system. The service team also provides training courses for operators, such as the safe use of bridge cranes and basic hoisting techniques. It is a one-day course designed to supplement the knowledge of experienced crane users or provide a solid learning experience for novices. Wright added As our trainers went to the customer site, these courses proved to be very popular, providing classroom-based theory and hands-on practical learning. The course can also be adjusted as needed to accommodate gantry cranes, gantry cranes or jib cranes.
"Pelloby has continuously responded to every new challenge in its first 50 years of business," Ferris said. "In the UK, they are still the jib cranes of choice for many companies, but the range of products and services they offer now is so extensive that they may be equally exciting in the next 50 years."
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