Overhead Crane Users in Northern Ireland to Get a Lift with a Workshop on Wheels

Dec. 23, 2009 - PRLog -- Following a deal with Gunnebo Industries, Street Crane Company, the largest industrial crane company in the UK is now able to offer a fuller service to customers in Northern Ireland.  Under the agreement Gunnebo (incorporating W H Scott and Sons), based in Mallusk, will have six Street Crane trained engineers on hand 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, for crane installation, service and support.

The Gunnebo team will operate from dedicated vehicles, some of which are ‘workshops on wheels’, equipped with load cells, test equipment, spare parts and work benches.  In addition, Gunnebo will hold in stock a range of the most popular sizes of Street Crane hoists to meet users’ most pressing needs.

Steve Hirst, Street Crane sales manager for Northern Ireland, will be working in parallel with Bertie Seaton, Gunnebo’s Northern Ireland manager based at the Gunnebo Mallusk operations centre.  “This is great news for our local customers who will now have first class technical support and service throughout the working life of their Street Crane lifting equipment,” explained Steve Hirst.


More information
Gus Zona, Tel. +44 (0)1298 812456 Fax. +44 (0)1298 814 945
Street Crane Company, Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak, SK23 0PH, UK
E-Mail: admin@streetcrane.co.uk Web: www.streetcrane.co.uk

High/low resolution images are on the web at www.ainsmag.co.uk/st165/4720st1a-gunnebo.htm

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Street Crane Company is the UK’s largest manufacturer of Electric Overhead Travelling Cranes (EOTC’s). The company produce a full range of cranes and hoists up to 150 tonnes safe working load and supply into every segment of industry from steelworks and foundries through every branch of engineering to shipbuilding, automotive and aerospace.

Gunnebo Industries is a manufacturer and supplier of specialist lifting equipment. A privately owned company with its HQ and main manufacturing plants in Sweden, the company supplies a complete range of lifting products, including chain slings, wire rope, hoists, blocks and height safety equipment. The business has subsidiaries in 13 countries world-wide, a turnover of £200 million and has a trading history spanning 240 years.