Oldcastle Precast, a supplier and manufacturer of precast concrete building systems and components, has contracted Morris Material Handling Inc to build five cranes for its new facility in Towson, Maryland, USA.
Morris Material Handling’s Western Canada operation, Kaverit, is designing and building a one-off truss girder portal gantry crane with a lifting capacity of 25 US ton, and a span of 120ft (36.6m),with a single 45ft (13.7m) cantilever. The other four cranes, two 25 US ton and two 15 US ton SWL cranes are being built at Morris’ Franklin, Ohio plant. The cranes will be delivered in the first quarter of 2003.
Morris Material Handling is a leading international provider of electric overhead travelling cranes, gantry cranes, hoists and winches for industrial and other applications, with operations based in the US, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Australia.
