CATEGORY: Engineering LOCATION: Dandenong, Victoria PRODUCT: Profile-cut plate steel Lifting Their Game JDN Monocrane is Australia’s premier crane and hoist manufacturer. Founded in 1979, today the company designs, manufactures, installs and services a comprehensive range of world class hoists, cranes and componentry. DN Monocrane is unique in the Australian market in that they design and manufacture all their own hoists, end carriages and components. This, combined with their extensive in-house design capabilities, means they can offer standard solutions to 200 tonnes capacity as well as specialised, customer-specific cranes and lifting equipment. Instrumental to JDN Monocrane’s success has been their constant focus on research and development. “Two core technologies are unique to our cranes: Hyperspeed and i-Glide,” said Paul Kelly, JDN Monocrane’s General Manager. “Hyperspeed is on the hoisting side of things and allows the unloaded hook to be raised or lowered at twice its normal speed. In the crane business, you want to get the hook down to a job as quickly as possible and when you’re finished you want it out of the way equally quickly. Hyperspeed does this automatically, by sensing the load on the hook, massively increasing productivity.” JDN Monocrane
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CATEGORY: Engineering
LOCATION: Dandenong, Victoria
PRODUCT: Profile-cut plate steel
Lifting Their GameJDN Monocrane is Australia’s premier crane and hoist manufacturer. Founded in 1979, today the company designs, manufactures, installs and services a comprehensive range of world class hoists, cranes and componentry.
DN Monocrane is unique in the Australian market in that they design and manufacture all their own hoists, end carriages and components. This, combined with their extensive in-house design capabilities, means they can offer standard solutions to 200 tonnes capacity as well as specialised, customer-specific cranes and lifting equipment.
Instrumental to JDN Monocrane’s success has been their constant focus on research and development. “Two core technologies are unique to our cranes: Hyperspeed and i-Glide,” said Paul Kelly, JDN Monocrane’s General Manager. “Hyperspeed is on the hoisting side of things and allows the unloaded hook to be raised or lowered at twice its normal speed. In the crane business, you want to get the hook down to a job as quickly as possible and when you’re finished you want it out of the way equally quickly. Hyperspeed does this automatically, by sensing the load on the hook, massively increasing productivity.”
“i-Glide is our automatic anti hook-sway technology. With a standard crane, when you hook up a load and send it off, the crane takes off but the load stays still. Once it gets going you get a swinging motion with the load, which is quite dangerous. Fortunately, i-Glide controls the acceleration and deceleration of the crane and you get virtually no hook-sway. This not only increases safety, it significantly increases productivity.” Paul continued.
“We’ve also recently launched a product called Planet. Put simply, it’s a regenerative braking system that feeds electricity back into the grid whenever a load is being lowered. This helps offset the cost of electricity used during the lift and is unique to our cranes.”
“BlueScope Distribution is one of our core suppliers. Our steel use is divided between profile-cut plate and structural steel. When it comes to plate, quality is absolutely paramount and the quality we get out of BlueScope Distribution is what sets them apart.”
“Over the years, with BlueScope Distribution it’s always the quality that comes to the fore. If you shop around you might save a bit of money on an order, but if you need to have a bloke spend two days cleaning up the edges on material that’s been profile cut for you, you’re not in front. BlueScope Distribution supplies pre-cut plate to specs we send them and it all works very well,” Paul concluded.
“We’ve had a long relationship supplying steel to JDN Monocrane,” said Alex Salins, BlueScope Distribution’s Account Manager. “They are a very important client to us and although we’re not their exclusive supplier we still provide a fair amount of their steel requirements. Of course, they have a core group of suppliers, but when quality and supply assurance really matters we keep coming through for them and meet their stringent requirements. It’s very satisfying. JDN Monocrane is a world-class company with industry-leading technology and at BlueScope Distribution we’re pleased to be a part of their success.” Alex said proudly.
