Jonel hire introduces new heavy lifting systems

Want to manage hydraulic lifts of up to 1000 tonnes with 1mm control?

Jonel Hydraulics have introduced a range of heavy lifting systems through their partnership with ENERPAC. This includes a multipoint syncronised PLC controlled lifting system. Jonel's ENERPAC product manager George Pavletich said the company had made the country's most extensive purchase ever of multi-point lifting technology for the national hire market.

"It's been a big commitment as this lifting technology is top of the range and offers customers - across a wide spectrum of industries - more flexibility with their heavy lifts where speed, accuracy and safety is critical. As it's specialist gear, it's not always practical for companies to buy this gear so making it available for hire has made it more accessible and cost effective for a lot of companies" he said.

According to George, the service will assist with overall efficiency when heavy lifting is required within tight time frames such as maintenance shutdowns of large industrial clients. "For heavy lift projects such as shutdowns, speed, combined with quality, is critical and project managers are telling us that having this specialist lifting gear is a big help" he added.

According to RCR Energy Systems Project manager Derek Snow, the availability of this new hydraulic technology resulted in an improvement in accuracy for a recent heavy lift project.

Jonel Hydraulics new syncronised lifting system was used to lift a 300 ton Boiler Cell on a recent plant upgrade. The system controls single and double acting jacks lifting from 5 tons through to heavy lifts of up to 1000 tons.

"We ultilised Jonel’s synchronized 4 point lifting system operating 8 jacks to remove a large bolier and when used in conjunction with load cells, the precision and control it gave us for this heavy lift was impressive.” said Snow. "From our point of view it's all about getting it exactly right and being able to accurately pre-load our structure made a difference as we able to control 4 lifting points at the same time and it gave us the control we needed."

Jonel's Director Suren Surendran said adding the specialist lifting equipment to their hire range made sense. "This compliments our hire operations, and we are in a unique position to offer this hire service as we combine ENERPAC's technology with our local expertise and technical support."