Maharashtra's coastal belt has ports, steel works and chemical plants, and its inland plants include engineering, power and process industries. eliteMHE serves the state from our works in Anand, Gujarat, with engineers travelling to your site. We service cranes of any make, have delivered work in more than a dozen states and are certified to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015. For work we have documented next door, see Gujarat.
Work on record in Maharashtra
For JSW at Dolvi we supplied a 10 T under-slung crane on a 5 m span, and it was load tested with a written report. An under-slung crane hangs from the roof or ceiling girders, so it needs no runway columns and leaves the floor clear. That suits bays with low headroom, or where columns cannot be added.
What a Maharashtra plant can ask us for
- Load test and statutory report: cranes of any make tested at 100% and 125% of safe working load (SWL) with our own test loads up to 400 T, and the equivalent statutory examination report under the state Factories Rules arranged through an authorised competent person. See load test and Form 10.
- Inspection and health check: a written report that sorts findings into repair now, monitor and modernize.
- AMC: planned visits, breakdown support and spares planning for one crane or a fleet, under an annual maintenance contract.
- New cranes: EOT, gantry, jib and under-slung cranes up to 300 T, installed and commissioned.
- Modernization: VFD (variable frequency drive) retrofit, brakes, controls and spares, with ABB drives as an ABB Channel Partner for drives and automation.
Specifying a crane for a coastal or process site
- Salt air and humidity speed corrosion of brakes, wire rope and electrical gear, so ask how each is protected and inspected.
- Have the quotation state the duty class as well as the heaviest load.
- Agree the test plan in advance: loads at 100% and 125% of SWL, with girder deflection checked against span/900 at rated load.
- Ask early what entry paperwork the site requires, such as permits and induction, so it is ready before the engineers arrive.
- Ask for a record pack at handover: test report, statutory report and manuals.
The statutory examination
Section 29 of the Factories Act requires a lifting machine to be thoroughly examined by a competent person at least once in every 12 months. For a crane in Maharashtra we arrange the equivalent statutory examination report under the state Factories Rules, and we run the load test it relies on. Read more in crane load test and Form 10 and how often a crane should be inspected. Plants across the state line in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh are served the same way.
Frequently asked questions
- What do you need to plan a load test?
- The crane's nameplate or drawings, its last statutory report, clear access for the test loads, power, a person from your side and a production window.
- What does a load test report show?
- The loads, deflections and function results, recorded reading by reading. The statutory report comes separately, signed by the authorised competent person.
- What is a duty class, and why does the quotation need it?
- Duty class describes how often and how heavily a crane works (IS 3177 or FEM class). Two cranes of the same capacity can need different construction, so give the lifts per hour and the shifts as well as the load.
- Can an under-slung crane fit our bay?
- It can, if the roof or ceiling girders can carry the load. That needs a structural check, so send the roof drawings.
Send the crane's make, capacity, span and site, and we will plan the visit with you. Contact eliteMHE.