Bushman Material Handling Equipment News

Recommendations For Buying And Inspecting Below-The-Hook Lifting Devices

Arguably, your Below-the-Hook lifting devices can be considered the “hands” of your operation. You might have great metal processing machines, but they cannot produce your product or value-added service unless the master coils, plates, structural pieces, sheet bundles and burned/cut parts can be efficiently and safely gripped, lifted and set into and moved out of your line. This article will offer important things to consider before buying a lifting attachment, either separately or with a new overhead crane.

100 Ton Mechanical Upender From Bushman

Bushman Equipment, Inc. recently shipped a mechanical upender (tipper) rated for 100 tons (200,000 lb). The loading and unloading platforms are 168” x 132”. The drive motor is 25 HP and is controlled by an AC flux vector variable frequency drive.

Bushman Equipment Unleashing The Pit Bull—A Scrap Grapple with Real Teeth!

Bushman has a long history of product leadership in the design and manufacture of rugged, built-to-order material handling equipment. And now for slitting line users, we are introducing the Pit Bull™—an air-powered scrap grapple designed specifically for cleaning out looping pits.

It’s Becoming a Tradition: BUSHMAN Voted #1 Material Handling Equipment Brand for 2018

Bushman Equipment, Inc. and its sister company, Avon Engineering, Ltd., were once again voted among the Top 10 brands of material handling equipment by readers of Metal Center New Magazines. Bushman earned the #1 spot for the third year in a row.

Bushman Signs Agreement With North American Steel Alliance

Bushman Equipment, Inc. has been named an Operational Supplier for the North American Steel Alliance (N.A.S.A.).

Incorporated in November of 1996, N.A.S.A. is a member-owned purchasing cooperative serving the metals distribution industry.

Bushman Equipment Raises Oohs And Ahhs At Grand Opening

Bushman Equipment, Inc, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, recently delivered four custom-designed screw lifts to a Wisconsin customer— one of the world’s leading producers of brazed aluminum heat exchangers.

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Bushman Equipment Builds 13 Spreader Beams For Major Overhead Crane Manufacturer

Bushman Equipment, Inc, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, recently delivered 13 below-the-hook spreader beams for Deshazo Crane Company, LLC. The order also includes two magnet beams.

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Bushman Equipment Propels Productivity in Wind Power Industry

Bushman Equipment, Inc, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, as completed several projects for a global manufacturer of automotive transmissions, steering systems and axles, as well as transmission systems for commercial vehicles, off-road machinery, rail vehicles, marine craft, helicopters and wind turbines.

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Bushman Equipment Manufactures Unique Jib Cranes

Bushman Equipment, Inc, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, has delivered two unique jib cranes to an aluminum mill in the Middle East. Bushman’s customer provided a number of its casting systems that included Bushman’s semi-automated jib cranes, or “manipulators”, to lift and set the distribution troughs.

Bushman Equipment Rolls Lifting Solution Into Tissue Plant

Bushman Equipment, Inc, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, has delivered a special Below-the-Hook Roll Lifter for one of the world’s leading manufacturers of tissue. Bushman® spreader beams, C-Hooks, paper clamps and tongs are most often used for roll handling.

Bushman Cylinder Lifter Attaches to Crane System

Bushman Equipment, Inc, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, recently delivered three cylinder lifters to American Crane & Equipment Corporation headquartered in Douglasville, PA. The Below-the-Hook lifters are attachments for crane systems used in the handling of waste material from a uranium enrichment process for commercial nuclear power plants.

Bushman Upender With Manually Adjustable, Multi-Directional V-Blocks Provides Flexibility And Efficiency

Bushman Equipment, Inc, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, recently delivered a mechanical upender specially equipped with manually adjustable, hand crank V-blocks to a manufacturer that serves the nuclear power industry. The primary use for the floor-based unit is to upend to 90 degrees, large cylindrical weldments weighing up to 80,000 pounds.

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Bushman Equipment Roll Lifter Looks Good On Paper; Works Great In Plant

Bushman Equipment, Inc, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, recently delivered a motorized roll lifter to Clearwater Paper Corporation’s papermaking and tissue converting mill in Lewiston, ID. The company is the United States’ largest provider of private label tissue to retail grocery chains.

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Bushman Equipment Bottom Block Forges Relationship With Customer

Bushman Equipment, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, has delivered a special 50 ton capacity Motorized Rotating Bottom Block for a nationally known forging operation in Pennsylvania that specializes in making high length/width products with bored interiors for the surface mining industry.

Bushman Equipment Provides Retro-Fit For Plate Lifter

Bushman Equipment, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, recently retrofit an electro-mechanical plate lifter to hydraulic drive. The material was delivered to and the work was performed on-site at SSAB’s Axis, Alabama mill. SSAB is a leading global provider of high strength steel plate.

Bushman Ships Largest Upender In Company History

Bushman Equipment, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, recently shipped the largest upender in company history. The unit was shipped to a new 350,000 sq. ft. plant built by Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. in Memphis, TN. The upender will be used by Mitsubishi to handle components of the electric power transformers it produces—the largest of which weighs up to 500 tons.

Bushman Equipment Provides Custom Lifters

Bushman Equipment, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, recently delivered six custom engineered lifters to a construction equipment manufacturer’s plant in the southern U.S.

Bushman Equipment Acquires Intellectual Property of ITNAC Corporation

Bushman Equipment, Inc, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, has acquired the Intellectual Property assets of ITNAC Corp of Birdsboro, PA. This includes the product brands, Flip-Rite™ and Level-Rite™ as well as the business name, “ITNAC”.

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Bushman Equipment Lifting Tong Design For Mirrors Reflects Innovative Engineering Capability

Bushman Equipment, a manufacturer of custom-engineered material handling solutions, has delivered 33 special below-the-hook lifting devices to BrightSource Energy LLC. The Oakland, CA-based company is a global leader in solar thermal power plant technology.

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