Lifting Equipment Servicing, Maintenance & Repair

You will find our engineers all across Cornwall, Devon and the Southwest making sure your equipment is running safely and at its best. We pride ourselves on the quality of our engineers due to our heavy investment in there training. Making sure that they stay up to date with current accreditation and improving there professional development regularly.

Accreditation & Training

All our engineers are fully trained and hold all relevant qualifications from the Lifting Equipment Engineer’s Association (LEEA), the leading governing body for all aspects of lifting equipment servicing, installation and repair’s.

  Your Legal Requirements

Legislation under PUWER & LOLER require you to ensure all your lifting equipment is kept in a safe condition and has a valid in date LOLER examination report. We use procedures that will ensure your full compliance with the law, including all legal and safety requirements. Our procedures are continually updated so you can be assured that we will keep you within the law moving forward.

Your testing and maintenance schedule will be tracked by us using our internal systems, giving you peace of mind that you never have an out of date LOLER test certificate and that you are kept up to date with any changes to legislation.

Lifting Equipment Thorough Examinations

Keeping your equipment fully maintained and possessing an up to date LOLER test certificate is a legal requirement and the foundation of a safe working environment. Beyond this keeping your equipment regularly maintained will reduce any downtime and increase your productivity.

Because all our engineers are fully trained to carry out LOLER examinations we can schedule maintenance based upon trends in wear on the equipment allowing us to solve potential issues before they occur.

All our maintenance procedures are well established over a long period of time on many types of lifting equipment in many environments. This allows us to be able to plan maintenance schedule’s and will give us a detailed level of the current state of your equipment resulting in peace of mind for you that everything is safe, reliable and compliant under the law.

  Maintenance & Repair Of All Lifting Equipment

At Cranetec we provide fast response times ensuring your downtime is as short as possible. We provide the best quality parts at the most competitive price’s, this approach has lead to us securing contracts with the MOD. All our work is carried out to the highest standard.

Lifting Equipment Load Testing

At Cranetec we provide proof load testing on all types of lifting equipment, with weights and hydraulic jacks. We will advise you on the most suitable method of testing, which will be completed onsite for your convinience.

  LOLER Inspections & Maintenance

Lifting Accessories & Loose Tackle

All lifting accessories and loose tackle must be inspected at a minimum of every six months to be compliant with the LOLER 1998 regulations. Lifting accessories are the pieces of equipment used to attach a load to your lifting equipment. Some examples of lifting equipment are listed below.

• Fibre or Webbing Slings
• Wire Rope Slings
• Chains Slings
• Hooks
• Shackles & Eyebolts
• Lifting Eyes
• Spreader Beams
• Magnetic and Vacuum Devices
• Lifting and Plate Clamps

When an inspection schedule has been agreed our engineers will complete a thorough examination of your lifting accessories and provide you with a LOLER certificate of inspection. This will outline any observed defects and comments, this will be supplied as a hard copy and in digital format. Following this we will provide you with a competitive quote for the rectification of any defects found.

We will organise a tagging system that ensures equipment outside the current inspection period is easily identifiable so it is not used until it has been re-inspected.

Gantry Crane – Servicing & Maintenance

Regular servicing and maintenance will ensure the long life of your equipment while keeping you inline with the Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) and Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER).

We will work with you to create an appropriate schedule for your equipments examination to keep inline with LOLER regulations.

All our inspections and servicing will check all aspects of your equipment including but not limited to brakes, anti collision systems, Lubrication of ropes and all moving parts, and the checking of service limits. A visual inspection of the crane gantry beams, support structures and runways. Gantry beams and support structures are often overlooked but should be an important part of any inspection.

Whats Included

Everything below will be checked for its condition and the security of any fixings.

All our engineers are equipped with specialist tools to check and/or adjust brakes, limits and overload systems.

If our engineers find anything that could cause immediate danger to anyone or cause equipment failure you will informed immediately so any appropriate action can be taken before there is a problem.

After Your LOLER Inspection & Service.

After any service or inspection a LOLER report will be provided, this will outline any observed defects and comments it will be supplied as a hard copy and in digital format. Following this we will provide you with a competitive quote for the rectification of any defects found.

We will organise a tagging system that ensures equipment outside the current inspection period is easily identifiable so it is not used until it has been re-inspected.

Repair & Breakdown Cover – Overhead Gantry Crane and Chain Hoist

Crantec offers a 24 hour breakdown and repair service, we guarantee a response time of 2 hours. After receiving your call an engineer will be dispatched to you within 2 hours. Our callout number will be supplied with the documents we provide for this service.