Konecranes to deliver its first Waste-to-Energy cranes to India
In October 2017, Konecranes received an order for two semi-automated Waste-to-Energy (WTE) cranes and one electrical overhead travelling (EOT) crane from Greenesol Power Systems Pvt. Ltd. (GPSPL) in Bengaluru, India. This will be Konecranes’ first WTE crane delivery to India. The cranes will be delivered to a 20 MW waste-to-energy facility in Hyderabad in June 2018. The end user of the facility is Hyderabad Integrated MSW Ltd, a RAMKy Group company, the company said in its press release.
The two semi-automated WTE cranes are double girder EOT cranes, each with a lifting capacity of 12 tons, span of 29.25 m and an 8 m3 electro hydraulics grab. They will be lifting 1,200 tons of waste daily and will be used for major functions such as stacking municipality solid waste to the pit area, mixing the waste, and feeding it into the boiler hopper. The ordered EOT crane will mainly be used for maintenance of the WTE plant’s turbine and generator.
The cranes will also include Konecranes Main User Interface (MUI), which is Konecranes new standard for programming WTE automation. Other safety and productivity enhancing features are Sway Control, Slack Rope Prevention, Shock Load prevention, Protected Areas, and DynAReg for regenerative braking.
Greenesol Power Systems Pvt Ltd (GPSPL) is a one stop shop for setting up of power plants. The company was founded in 2003 and is a reputed joint venture company with M/s. Hangzhou Steam Turbine Company, China (HTC), who are pioneers & leaders in the field of turbo-machinery. GPSPL’s core competence lies in engineering, procurement, supply, and erection & commissioning of power plants in the range of 3 MW to 150 MW. GPSPL to date have set up power plants in various sectors viz., sugar, biomass, cement, steel, chemical, IPP’s and WTE, and have commissioned around 4,000 MW in India and abroad.
Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity enhancing lifting solutions as well as services for lifting equipment of all makes. In 2016, Group (comparable combined company) sales totaled EUR 3,278 million. The Group has 16,600 employees at 600 locations in 50 countries. Konecranes class A shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.
