PARKERSTEEL DRAWN TO DEMAG MAGNET CRANES

ParkerSteel, part of John Parker & Son Ltd, is one of Britain’s largest suppliers of structural beams and columns to the construction industry. The new Shoreham Port facility complements the company’s existing operation at its Canterbury head office and provides additional capacity to meet a sustained increase in demand for its products. The dockside location of the new facility was chosen to allow imported steel to be offloaded, by dockside crane, directly into the stockyard and co-located processing plant, eliminating the costly transport from port to factory.

The dockside crane places the steel beams immediately under the Demag cranes, for further lifting and movement to the appropriate storage area within the stockyard. The steel beams are then loaded onto conveyor systems, which take them into the factory for processing and next day delivery to customers or ParkerSteel’s other stock holding sites.

To meet the specific materials handling needs of ParkerSteel’s application, Demag supplied three double girder Steelmaster cranes, all of which have a span of 36 m and are rated at 8 + 8 tonnes SWL. All three cranes have two Steelmaster crab units, each 
equipped with an independently controlled 4 tonnes SWL magnet. The magnets were specified to eliminate the time consuming operation of “slinging” loads and to improve safety by excluding operators from the loading process.