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E-Crane Worldwide/Indusign is a modern, state-of-the-artengineering and heavy equipment construction company, based inAdegem, Belgium. E-Crane Worldwide provides design servicesas well as complete machine production, installation, support andtraining with on-going service for the heavy equipment industry.

The E-Crane series offers models with up to 49 tonnes dutycycle capacity due to their movable counterweight and fixedparallelogram linkage as well as up to 150ft/50m of horizontaland up to 100ft/30m reach below grade. Its modular designallows each E-Crane to be tailor-made to the client’s specificrequirements.

Supported by a world-wide dealer and service network,E-Crane Worldwide is able to offer its customers on-goingassistance worldwide.

ELECTRONIC MACHINE MANAGEMENT

E-Crane recently introduced its Electronic MachineManagement-system (EMM); this will now be included asstandard in all its B-series E-Cranes. This mobile CAN-bustechnology enables the E-Crane engineers to trouble shoot andsolve problems from behind their computer. Check out thejobstory below:

Antwerp, 11th of April 2007. 06.00 hrs.: E-Crane operator Stan begins unloading a coaster

with rapesead for the Cargill facility of Schelde-Natie in the portof Antwerp. Expected weather conditions during the day: sunny,20°.

At 09.00 hrs. a warning occurs on the screen inside the cabinforming Stan that the oil temperature inside the tank is toolow... –15°C! Coolers have been shut down and tankheaters areactivated. Operator Stan stops the crane and checks the oiltemperature inside the power module where he finds that oil isnot cold, on the contrary, the oil is quite warm/hot as he cannothold his hand on the tank.

Stan decides to call the E-Crane service centre in Adegem,Belgium. Chief engineer Geert Watteeuw answers his call. Aftera brief explanation of what happened Geert decides to establisha direct communication with the EMM on the crane using awireless GPRS link. From behind his computer in Adegem Geertquickly sees that the signal coming from the temperature sensorinside the tank is not within the normal operating range.

From behind his desk, Geert bypasses the sensor and heactivates the coolers to allow Stan to continue with theoffloading.

9.30 hrs.: Geert informs Stan about the actions taken afterwhich the offloading of the coaster is resumed.

18.30 hrs.: Ship is empty and leaves the dock.Just another day in the world of E-Crane. In only half an

hour time, the problem was analyzed and solved.

Scheldenatie’s 1000B series E-Crane.

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E-CRANE CUSTOMERS = LOYAL CUSTOMERS

Due to excellent customer relations, E-Cranefrequently receives repeat orders.

On 4 July, the third E-Crane for Multiserv’s scrapcatering project at the Carinox steelmill in Charleroi,Belgium, was successfully and safely installed,commissioned and put into service.

Multiserv is a division of Harsco Corporation, andis the world’s single largest provider of outsourced,on-site mill services to the global steel and non-ferrous metals industries.

Carinox is one of the four European productionsites of Ugine & ALZ, the European subsidiary ofArcelor’s Stainless Steel Business Unit.

Thanks to the successful installation of the thirdE-Crane in Charleroi, the Carinox steel mill is nowapproaching its design capacity of handling onemillion tons of stainless steel per year.

At the Acindar steel mill in Villa Constitucion, Argentine, theinstallation of two new E-Cranes will allow MultiServ, the serviceprovider for the scrap handling at Acindar, to keep scrap moving.

Electric arc furnace (EAF) steel mills like Acindar rely on asteady stream of baskets filled with scrap metal to be ready asfeedstock every hour of every day that the mill is up andrunning.

For the US market, the sixth E-Crane in a series of seven,tailor-made for AEP’s Kanawha River plant in West-Virginia hasjust left the Adegem workshop.

American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilitiesin the United States.

After the factory acceptance and testing (FAT, tests andtuning) in E-Cranes workshop by AEP officials end of September2007, the 1500B series E-Crane was disassembled into majorcomponents/packages for shipment to its final destination inGlasgow, Kanawha County, where the E-Crane will off-load coalfor the coal-fired steam units that generate and transmitelectrical power to communities in West-Virginia and Virginia.

FLOATING BULK OFF-LOADING STATIONS

E-Crane will deliver a mid-stream transfer station for Seaboard

Corporation, for their Midema Ship Unloading Project on theRiver Congo, near the harbour of Matadi.

Midema, short for Minoterie de Matadi, controls about 70%of the flour market in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

As this issue goes to pres, the barge Mama Mobokoli is beingrefurbished by E-Crane Worldwide in the harbour of Zeebrugge,Belgium. There, the 1500B series E-Crane, custom built forhandling wheat for Midema, will be mounted by E-Craneengineers onto the barge, before it will be towed across theocean to its new destination.

E-Crane International USA has been rewarded an order for a2000 series, model 18264 E-Crane for one of Alabama ElectricCooperative’s power plants.

The generating station, known as Charles R. Lowman PowerPlant, is on the Tombigbee River near Leroy, Alabama.

The E-Crane will be mounted on a 175ft by 50ft deck barge,together with a receiving hopper and a feeder. The goal is toreceive coal and limestone from barges and transport thematerial via a conveyor to the plant’s shoreside material handlingsystem. The conveyor will be mounted on a 40ft by 26ft supportbarge tied to the crane barge.

The new material handling system is scheduled to beoperational during the first quarter of 2008.

1000 Series E-Cranes unloading scrap at MultiservCarinox Plant in Charleroi, Belgium.

3D-Model mid-stream transfer stationwith 1500B series E-Crane forSeaboard’s Midema Ship UnloadingProject.

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