Gantrex & Villari team up on crane services

Crane and rail solutions provider Gantrex is continuing on the expansion path, announcing a partnership with wireless structural monitoring technology specialist Villari that extends its service portfolio.

Netherlands-based Villari is a spin-off from Delft University of Technology that offers continuous visibility into fatigue and crack growth through a globally certified wireless crack-detection system for steel structures. By monitoring passive magnetic flux leakage and plastic deformation through sensors, Villari’s system can detect early-stage crack growth and measures crack propagation in steel structures.

The new partnership sees Gantrex add Villari’s technology to its crane service offering. In comments to WorldCargo News, Steve Nikolayev, crane solutions marketing manager at Gantrex, said the company has been supplying crane parts and servicing cranes in Europe since 2015. Gantrex currently has long-term maintenance contracts and crane repair and diagnostic contracts around Europe, North America and Middle East.

While the name Gantrex is most commonly associated with crane rails, the company has structural and crane engineers on staff in its technical department that specialise in vibration analysis, 3D scanning of structures and FEA analysis that support all crane and structural related projects. “Our engineers have a wealth of experience with welded structural members and we have already successfully completed full crane assessment projects where rope access NDT inspections were carried out,” Nikolayev said.

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