Markets We Serve

As a leader in the industrial crane and hoist business, Crane 1 has an unmatched depth of expertise and experience in the numerous industries we serve. Regardless of your market segment, we’re here to help you address your overhead crane system challenges:

• Employee and Workplace Safety
  • Designing and buying equipment systems based on safety
  • Proactively maintaining and inspecting equipment to strict safety standards and compliance
  • Training facility staff to make sure equipment is operating safely and in compliance at all times
• Facility Productivity and Equipment Uptime
  • Avoiding costly and disruptive downtime by ensuring that equipment is reliable and in perfect running condition at all times
  • Achieving top performance during high-usage cycles is critical, as is ensuring reliability and consistent performance after long idle periods
  • Choosing equipment systems that perform in industrial manufacturing facilities with even the most challenging environments
• Total Cost of Ownership
  • Selecting the right equipment that optimizes upfront purchase cost, annual maintenance expenses and overall asset lifecycle
  • Having a reliable service partner with replacement parts stocked and available on demand for cost savings and same-day service
  • Designing and maintaining the right system with the right service partner to maximize equipment and employee productivity and efficiencies
• Equipment Problems
  • Preventing the gear case, electrical and hoist gear failures that frequently cause equipment to shut down or operate with limitations
  • Eliminating the excessive wear that causes cracks in the hook/shank and bottom block that lead to potential operational and safety issues
  • Addressing the daily issue of wire rope wear through inspections and replacement to ensure that equipment systems are operating safely and efficiently
• Service Provider Issues
  • Service providers whose employees are not trained or whose company is not focused on equipment and workplace safety, facility and equipment uptime, and total costs of equipment ownership
  • Service technicians who lack the necessary technical expertise or whose company does not have parts available so they can fix the equipment right the first time and on the same day
  • Slow response times and lack of 24/7/365 service availability and two-hour emergency service that ensure that production is not shut down or safety compromised
  • Poor communication, no confirmation of arrival time, poor service diagnostics and inaccurate cost estimates vs. actual service bills

Our highly reliable field services include safety and compliance inspections, planned and breakdown repairs, safety training, engineering and engineering analysis, and parts recommendations and supply — for customers in virtually any market that uses cranes and hoist equipment. We understand how your critical equipment systems contribute to your bottom line, and we’re ready to help you:

• Maximize safety
• Reduce liability
• Reduce overall maintenance costs
• Increase productivity
• Prolong equipment longevity
• Meet compliance requirements