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Gantry Crane

Description:

A gantry crane is a type of crane mainly used outdoors to handle heavy objects. It has a bridge structure girders supported by legs, which run along tracks or rails, or travel with tires, enabling it to move horizontally over a workspace. These cranes are commonly used in factories, shipyards, construction sites, steel plants, power plant, and ports, etc.​

Types:

According to girder numbers, there are 2 main types:

  1. Single-girder Crane: Has one main horizontal girder and is typically used for lighter loads.

  2. Double-girder Crane: Has two main girders and is designed for heavier loads, offering more stability and a higher lifting capacity.

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According to traveling mechanism, there are 3 main types:

  1. Rail-mounted Crane (RMG): Most commonly seen gantry cranes mounted on rails, allowing it to move along a fixed track system.

  2. Rubber-tired Crane (RTG): Mainly used at port terminals for container handling, or at construction sites for handling of precast bridges, sections, heavy equipment, etc.

  3. Portable Gantry Crane: A kind of light crane with Universal casters.

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According to different structures, there are 3 main types:

  1. Box-girder Crane: Most commonly seen gantry cranes with main beam made of box-type girders.

  2. Truss-girder Crane: The structure is truss or lattice type girders and legs.

  3. Semi Gantry Crane: With 1 leg traveling on the tracks fixed on the ground, and the other side without leg, just end trucks traveling on the tracks fixed on the wall or workshop support beam.

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According to different application, there are many types:

  1. General-purpose Crane: Most commonly seen gantry cranes applicable most of industrial fields such as in factory, plant, construction site, stock yard, etc.

  2. Container Handling Crane: It can a RMG crane and RTG crane used at the container yard or terminals to handle containers.

  3. Shipyard Gantry Crane: or portal crane, Common in shipyards for the construction or maintenance of large vessels.

  4. Metallurgy Plant Gantry Crane: Main used outdoor to handle steel materials.

  5. Construction Gantry Crane: For example for road construction to lift precast bridges, blocks, sections, heavy equipment, tools, etc.

  6. Heavy Duty Gantry Crane: or goliath crane, With capacity more than 500 tons, designed for lifting extremely heavy and oversized loads in aerospace, construction, or heavy equipment manufacturing.

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