Advanced Crane Technologies LLC

Advanced Crane Technologies is a supplier of custom solutions to a specialized crane market. Our focus is on complex, unusual, high capacity, and/or sophisticated applications, nationwide. Our team of highly trained and experienced engineers, project managers and technicians, can design, build, and install cranes of all types and capacities, or modernize your existing crane with new state of the art controls and monitoring systems.

As a part of the Pollock Research & Design family of companies, along with Simmers Crane Design Services in Salem, Ohio and Reading Crane and Engineering, Reading PA we can bring together a team of over 20 engineers and 80 crane service technicians at six locations in the mid-Atlantic region alone. ACT is located in the Reading Crane and Engineering’s corporate offices in Reading PA.

RC&E has been in the crane business for over 100 years. The manufacturing facility in Reading, PA is currently producing over 50 cranes annually.

ACT also assists clients in developing specifications for crane procurement and modernization, as well as providing inspection and training services. We have experience in applications for hydropower, primary metals, shipyards, dockside, defense, nuclear and conventional power generation.

Advanced Crane technologies consists of mechanical/structural engineers, designers, experienced project managers, and field supervisors. Advanced Crane Technologies will design, engineer, manufacture, assemble, install, and commission material handling equipment, automation and manufacturing systems. Advanced Crane Technologies is also involved in upgrading and modernizing existing equipment to improve performance, reliability, safety, and productivity. The area in which Advanced Crane Technologies specializes is overhead bridge cranes, gantry cranes, container cranes, and related types of equipment. Advanced Crane Technologies has capabilities of handling complete turnkey projects from feasibility study/preliminary estimates through design responsibility, material procurement, construction supervision, and start-up or any single combination of these services.

New Cranes: As a total solution provider, Advanced Crane Technologies (ACT) provides Top Running, Underhung & Monorail cranes of all types, capacities and spans. Our specialty is unique high capacity and long span cranes; this is what sets us apart from the competition. ACT is also a distributor for R&M Material Handling, based in Springfield Ohio. Our relationship with R&M allows us to competitively provide cranes even at lower capacities, and shorter spans.

Safety, Diagnostic, and Crane monitoring Systems: Just like the dashboard and the onboard diagnostic computer of your car providing feedback to the operator, and the service technicians at the dealership, modern crane controls have the ability to monitor and record events, time used, faults, and other areas that indicate problems with the crane before they become a safety or loss of production issue. The latest monitoring systems can be utilized in predictive maintenance programs, accident investigation, production planning, and overall plant performance measuring. ACT can custom design a system for your facility, even utilizing wireless Ethernet technology to put a “Dashboard” on the computer desktop of your maintenance supervisor, safety monitor, or production Manager showing real-time information from each crane in your plant.

Spillway and Gate Handling Equipment: ACT provides corrosion resistant sheaves and blocks for gate handling at hydroelectric dams, stoplog handling beams, gate handling equipment, and gate hoist machinery as well as cranes. We can provide our customers products with coatings, and designed for immersion in water.