Front line overhead cranes vital to Afghanistan 26 March 2012

When High Peak MP Andrew Bingham joined a fact finding mission to Camp Bastion in Afghanistan recently he was not expecting to be reminded of home. However, during a tour of the maintenance workshops, where armoured cars are serviced and repaired, he came across two cranes manufactured in Chapel-en-le Frith by Street Crane.

"I already knew that Street Crane exported around the world, but to see their cranes in action really brought home how far afield they go," says Bingham.

The Street Crane factory produces around 400 cranes per year, the majority of which are for the UK market.

Street Crane managing director Andrew Pimblett says that the installation at Camp Bastion is exceptional as most of the company's export sales are of the major electro-mechanical components such as hoists, bogies and controls.

Only when a customer, such as the British Army or a contractor with a major capital project such as a power station, he says, needs complete cranes and the structures cannot be made locally, is it practical and economic to ship the whole crane package from the UK.

"Our customers make the major structures, such as crane beams and gantries, and we supply from the UK higher value engineering components that we can manufacture to a consistent quality and at a scale that makes them competitive," states Pimblett.

Brian Tinham

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