New York Blower's new factory installs four sets of overhead cranes for load steering

Hoosier Crane worked with R&M Materials Handling to supply and install four load-turning cranes at New York Blower’s new facility.

The New York Blower Company has been in operation since 1889, manufacturing commercial and industrial fans and blowers for making locations such as industrial buildings, subways and commercial spaces more safe and comfortable by regulating temperatures, removing pollutants and collecting dust.

In 2017, the company broke ground on a 30,000ft2 manufacturing facility in New Castle, Pennsylvania, where some of the company’s largest products would be produced, including fans and components with diameters of 16ft and weighing nearly 40t.

Some of the larger fans need to be lifted by overhead crane and manipulated in three dimensions, so that all sides of the fan housing, which can weigh more than 20t, can be accessed and welded.

Before the New Castle facility was set up, the company would flip and turn smaller fan housings either by using a single girder overhead crane with one hoist, which left room for safety errors and potential damage to the crane, or by using two separate cranes, if the cranes could be moved close enough together to make the load turn possible.

Both of these solutions came with problems, with the cranes not built to handle the stresses of load turning. When planning the new facility, therefore, New York Blower approached long-term crane service and installation partner Hoosier Crane Service Company for advice.

The load-turning cranes supplied are designed to enable heavy loads to be rotated and flipped, with each crane incorporating two hoists to distribute the weight and to allow the load to be manipulated in a straightforward manner.

Using standard hoists for load turning is extremely dangerous, said Hoosier Crane chief operating officer Todd Cook, due to side pulling and dynamic shocks that occur when the load suddenly turns.

R&M, as a long-term supplier to Hoosier Crane, worked with Cook’s team to design a bespoke solution for New York Blower. Hoosier produced four cranes with R&M load-turning components to the facility, two with 40t capacity and two with 20t capacity.

Safety features of the load-turning components include a double girder trolley; double-reeved rope hoists; heavy duty wire rope and rope guide; larger trolley end carriages and motors; extended wire rope fleet angles up to 15°, and the HoistMonitor condition monitoring system. Radio controls were also fitted to the cranes.

The results have included load turns being completed much more quickly than before, and with fewer workers required for each load turn—from 4–6 staff down to one or two.

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