Nucor Steel and others look to Morris P&H

Recent contract wins for Morris Material Handling Inc in the USA include two new P&H cranes for Nucor Steel's melt shop at its mill in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

One is a charging crane to handle huge buckets of scrap steel which are dumped into the electric arc furnace for melting into liquid steel. The other is a mill crane to handle coils of sheet steel as they come off of the hot mill. The hot mill rolls continuously cast steel strips into their final shape before being wrapped into coils for further processing or final packaging. Delivery and installation are scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2003.

Since the beginning of 2003, Morris has provided other solutions for Nucor's Crawfordsville plant including new employee safety training using a computer-based crane simulator and crane inspections using its P&H ProCare Inspection Process.

Other new orders for Morris include:

• two 25 US ton and two 35 US ton cranes for Magic Steel's new steel coil processing facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan

• three cranes for Steel Technologies' stamping plant in Eminance, Kentucky

• a process crane for handling silica at the WR Grace Company of Baltimore, Maryland

• a $1.3m contract to up-rate a polar reactor crane from 125 ton to 140 tons for Dominion Power

• a $1.2m contract to upgrade capacity and controls on a petroleum coke handling crane for Citco.

Morris says that it took nearly $7m-worth of new crane orders in the first two months of 2003.