Maximum Material Handling can engineer and deliver turnkey, custom-fit overhead crane systems for any industry. As a comprehensive systems integrator, we oversee every phase of your project from facility assessment and measurement to system layout and structural design to complete installation and final commissioning. Our custom solutions are designed to maximize your available space and optimize desired workflow while maintaining regulatory compliance.
Engineered for Demanding Facilities
Standard “Off-The-Shelf” lifting equipment can fall short when it comes to meeting your specific application. Maximum designs every overhead crane system to integrate safely with your building’s particular dimensions and structural layout while matching your load capacity requirements.
Our industrial overhead crane solutions are intended to enhance productivity and safety across all kinds of challenging environments and key industries, such as:
- Manufacturing and Assembly: Facilitating precise component placement and minimizing operator fatigue.
- Heavy and Light Steel Fabrication: Safely handling massive raw materials with custom-engineered capacities.
- Heavy and Light Equipment Maintenance: Safe, precise lifting for heavy machinery components, ensuring shop compliance and minimizing maintenance downtime.
- Stone Handling: Controlled lifting and turning of massive stone slabs to prevent material damage and protect personnel.
- Glass Handling: Exceptionally smooth controls and custom attachments for the precise, safe positioning of fragile glass panels.
- Concrete and Casting: Severe-duty lifting power engineered to handle massive precast forms in harsh, abrasive environments.
- Foundry Work: Heat-resistant, severe-duty systems for the safe, continuous handling of molten materials and heavy castings.
- Pipe Handling: Balanced, custom lifting solutions optimized for the stable transfer and high-density storage of cumbersome pipes.
- Warehousing and Distribution: Optimizing vertical storage space and expediting heavy material transfer.
- Power and Utilities: Ensuring reliable, severe-duty lifting capabilities for infrastructure maintenance.
Full-Service Engineering, Installation & Aftermarket Support
Maximum Material Handling serves as your single-source partner, managing the complete lifecycle of your material handling equipment. It begins with system layout, design and engineering. We determine available span, calculate steel requirements, and account for clearances in order to devise a fully optimized structural support system.
From there, our specialized team can execute the complete overhead crane installation, bringing in the necessary equipment needed to erect the support system, pour footings if necessary, and assemble the crane components safely on-site while ensuring compliance with all OSHA specifications for newly installed cranes and crane systems. We can perform comprehensive dynamic load testing utilizing our large in-house inventory of certified test weights in order to meet the mandatory requirements for all new cranes.
Beyond installation, we protect your investment through comprehensive lifecycle management. Our certified technicians provide routine OSHA inspections and preventative crane maintenance to keep your facility compliant and functioning at peak efficiency. Should an unexpected breakdown occur, we serve as an authorized warranty center, providing rapid repair and 24/7 system service for a multitude of industry-leading manufacturers.
Overhead Crane Types
We supply a full spectrum of crane configurations to meet diverse structural and load-bearing requirements.
Overhead Bridge Cranes
- Top Running Double Girder Crane: The industry standard double girder overhead crane for severe-duty applications requiring maximum hook height, wide spans, and extreme load capacities.
- Top Running Single Girder Crane: A highly efficient single girder overhead crane solution for medium-capacity lifting that maximizes overhead clearance and reduces structural wheel loads.
- Under Running Double Girder Crane: Many times can be suspended from the existing building steel, providing maximum hook height without requiring floor mounted columns.
- Under Running Single Girder Crane: Many times can be suspended from the existing building steel elevating the need for floor mounted columns. These cranes lend themselves to “Interlocking”, crane to crane, crane to monorail or both, giving you unparalleled access to maximum floor coverage. Typically constructed from patented track rail.
- Truss Crane: Engineered with a rigid lattice structure to span extraordinary distances without the extreme dead weight of a solid box girder.
Gantry Cranes
- Motorized Gantry Crane: A floor-supported framework traveling on ground rails, ideal for outdoor material yards or facilities unable to support an overhead runway.
- Motorized Single Leg Gantry Crane: A semi-gantry design utilizing one floor rail and one elevated runway, maximizing usable floor space near facility walls.
- Aluminum Portable Gantry Crane: Lightweight, mobile structures easily relocated for flexible, on-demand maintenance lifting.
Jib Cranes
- Freestanding Jib Crane: Provides 360-degree targeted lifting capacity for specific workstations, mounted securely to a poured concrete foundation.
- Cantilever Wall Mount Jib Crane: Mounted directly to existing structural building columns, offering a 180-degree working radius without consuming floor space.
- Wall Bracket Jib Crane: A highly economical wall-mounted solution utilizing a tie-rod suspension for lighter, localized lifting.
- Wall Traveling Cantilever Jib Crane: Runs on elevated wall tracks along the length of a building, delivering materials across multiple workstations without obstructing the main overhead bridge crane.
- Articulating Freestanding Jib Crane: Features a pivoting “knuckle” jib arm to seamlessly navigate around obstacles and reach into tight machinery.
- Articulating Traveling Jib Crane: Combines the flexibility of a folding arm with a mobile base or track system for maximum maneuverability/.
Workstation Cranes
- Freestanding Workstation Crane: Enclosed-track systems mounted on floor supports, drastically reducing push/pull forces for highly ergonomic assembly line lifting.
- Ceiling Mounted Work Station Crane: Suspended enclosed-track systems that keep the production floor completely clear of support columns.
- Telescoping Work Station Crane: Features an extending bridge beam designed to reach into adjacent work areas or extend beyond the structural runway limits.
Specialty & Automated Cranes
- Cantilever Freestanding Crane (Patented Track): Specialized track systems supported by a cantilevered structure, allowing for complex lifting paths extending outward from the supports.
- Specialty Handling Crane: Custom-engineered systems designed exclusively for unique material dimensions, hazardous environments, or highly repetitive processes.
- Patented Track Specialty Crane: High-carbon, hardened steel track systems designed for continuous, high-cycle monorail or complex switching operations.
- Stacker Crane: Highly automated, rail-guided machines equipped with forks or masts, engineered for rapid, high-density vertical storage and retrieval in warehousing.
- Davit Crane: Compact, fixed, or portable cranes frequently used for lowering equipment into confined spaces, wastewater treatment pits, or over ledges.
- Crane Kit: Comprehensive, pre-engineered component packages (hoist, end trucks, and controls) ready to be paired with locally sourced structural steel.
Partner with Maximum Material Handling
Ensure your next lifting system is engineered for exact precision, longevity, and safety. Contact our technical team today to schedule a site evaluation and begin the design process.
