STUPP CORPORATION, BATON ROUGE, LA EXPEDITED PARTS SHIPMENT SAVES CUSTOMER OVER $300,000 IN DOWNTIME A BLACK NIGHT IN BATON ROUGE Stupp Corporation makes a comprehensive size range of custom steel pipe. At 2 a.m. on September 19, 2012, Konecranes service manager Stephen Doyle received a callout on a catastrophic failure of a 54-ton coil bay overhead crane in the company’s spiral mill. The root cause of the mishap was undetermined, but the results were clear. The hoist frame was severely damaged and the crane was completely inoperable. “This crane is critical to their operation. It loads 40-ton steel coils into the pipe-making machine and is the beginning point for production at their mill,” said Doyle. Konecranes team inventoried the parts required to repair the hoist: a bearin

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