{"id":5218,"date":"2016-07-22T15:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minutes.machine.market\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2016-07-22T15:23:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T15:23:59","slug":"south-africas-condra-cranes-hoists-is-celebrating-50-years-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/south-africas-condra-cranes-hoists-is-celebrating-50-years-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa’s Condra Cranes & Hoists is celebrating 50 years in business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Condra Crane & Hoists<\/a>, South Africa\u2019s home grown global crane manufacturing group, turned 50 on June 24, half\u00a0a century after modest beginnings as a local drawing office. Today, the group has factories on three continents producing hoists, end-carriages, single-girder<\/a>\u00a0and double-girder<\/a> overhead travelling cranes, portal cranes, bridge cranes and cantilever cranes\u00a0for markets worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Founder Josef Kleiner remains group owner, with the company being family managed. There are\u00a0no external shareholders.<\/p>\n

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Under pinning this remarkable success story is a very tight focus on quality and rugged reliability.\u00a0Overhead cranes are designed and assembled to specification from hoists, drives, endcarriages,\u00a0brakes, gearboxes and some 250 other sub-assemblies produced in-group. Two lines of hoists\u00a0are manufactured in a number of standard models suited to most mining, industrial and general\u00a0applications, from 1 to 500 tons. Motors are bought from external suppliers.<\/p>\n

Condra\u2019s evolution from local drawing office to global manufacturing group began with the\u00a0development of the company\u2019s first manufactured components in 1971, and the production four\u00a0years later of one of South Africa\u2019s first locally manufactured hoists.<\/p>\n

Rapid growth followed, necessitating a move in 1976 to premises in Elsburg, south of Germiston,\u00a0which remained home for more than 30 years, the original factory and office space doubling over\u00a0that period of time to allow for the development and introduction of a new range of hoists in 1985.<\/p>\n

A second range was launched in 1997.<\/p>\n

The need for yet more space became apparent during 2006 when the company began\u00a0manufacturing very large cranes for the mines at Sishen (capacity 150 tons) and Tati (capacity\u00a0145 tons) along with a glut of machines of more standard size. Land with an area of 22,000m2\u00a0was bought in Gosforth Park, Germiston, and factory space of 9,000m2 was custom designed,\u00a0built and occupied in 2008.<\/p>\n

Transformation from a single entity into a group then followed. Appointment as South Africa\u2019s sole\u00a0distributor of the Hitachi range of electric chain hoists was announced in 2009, followed quickly by\u00a0the formation of the first overseas subsidiary, Condra OOD of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Today, entities in the Condra group number nine, with two manufacturing companies in South\u00a0Africa, one in Chile, one in Bulgaria, and five other associated firms. The parent company and\u00a0main manufacturing facility remains headquartered in Germiston.<\/p>\n

Cranes are designed and manufactured up to and including heavy duty Class 4, and to the\u00a0standards of ISO, GOST and other internationally recognised quality control bodies.<\/p>\n

Condra\u2019s stated intent for the future is to continue to focus on high product quality and lower\u00a0overall useful lifetime costs for sustainable competitive advantage.<\/p>\n

Expansion of the global distribution network is to continue, but without targeting growth for its own\u00a0sake. Group management is actively courting reputable, respectable companies that can to help\u00a0achieve this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Condra Crane & Hoists, South Africa\u2019s home grown global crane manufacturing group, turned 50 on June 24, half\u00a0a century after modest beginnings as a local drawing office. Today, the group has factories on three continents producing hoists, end-carriages, single-girder\u00a0and double-girder overhead travelling cranes, portal cranes, bridge cranes and cantilever cranes\u00a0for markets worldwide. 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