Case Study
Airbalancer Allows Employees to Lift with Ease
Tired of heavy lifting At our plant, we needed a new crane to help us perform machining and tooling tasks and load products into fabrication machines. We received a new machine tool, and desperately needed a new crane for that workstation area. Light as air When Konecranes came to demonstrate AirBalancer, an air-controlled hoist and manipulator on an extremely lightweight, freestanding aluminium system, we all immediately fell in love with it. The hoist made items feel practically weightless! Konecranes installed a 500-pound capacity aluminium XA crane with a 100-pound capacity AirBalancer in only a few days. The freestanding crane system improved our whole situation in general. Because it spans the entire workstation area, we are able to move the hoist exactly where we