AboutAmerican Crane and Equipment Corporation
For more than four decades, American Crane & Equipment Corporation has been a trusted innovator of high-quality specialty lifting equipment. As a leading manufacturer of cranes, hoists, and other material handling equipment, along with a variety of parts and components for standard, custom, and nuclear applications, we’re committed to high quality products and customer satisfaction in an industry where there is no room for mistakes.
At American Crane, GRIT Matters: we put perseverance, heart, and integrity into everything we do. That is the core of our culture, and it’s the foundation for the values that drive us to put our people first and delight our customers with the high-quality solutions that make their lives easier.
Our Facilities
Our facilities feature a 226,000 sq ft combined capacity of manufacturing space and 150 ton lifting capacity. American Crane has one of the largest floor type horizontal boring mills in the Northeastern United States along with an onsite 200 ton load testing tower. This expanded manufacturing capacity, coupled with highly skilled labor, allows American Crane the scalability to meet future market demands.
American Crane made the strategic decision to maintain its robust in-house resources for engineering, manufacturing and field services to ensure consistent quality and schedule adherence. Our engineering staff consists of seasoned mechanical, electrical and structural engineers, including world class nuclear seismic experts. American Crane’s engineering capabilities include mechanical and machine design, structural design and analyses, dynamic modeling and seismic, failure modes and effects analyses, complete control system design, remote systems, automated systems, software development (including real time graphics), complete licensing success with NRC, and support for 50.59 evaluations.
As a supplier to the nuclear industry, American Crane has maintained a Quality Assurance Program since 1996 that meets both 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, and ASME NQA-1 standards. This quality program has been audited by commercial nuclear utilities, NUPIC, and DOE contractors. Non-nuclear augmented quality programs are also available. American Crane’s welding is performed to AWS D1.1 or D14.1 standards and our in-house non-destructive testing is performed by SNT-TC-1A qualified personnel.
