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Slit Coil Packaging
Lifting Products
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AVON Engineering fabricates quality equipment to grip, lift and transport your valued products. We maximize your crane payload with lower tare weights. Our proven equipment is durable and heavy-duty.

Our lifting products include custom-engineered equipment to handle almost any shaped load weight. We also build automated coil storage and transfer equipment such as turnstiles or coil cars for transporting slit coils from a slitting line to a packaging system.

We build quality equipment to handle your valued products. We can maximize your crane payload with lower tare weight, because we have proven designs for durable, heavy duty equipment.

Download Overhead Material Handling Solutions PDF


C-hooks

Counter balanced c-hook from Avon engineering
Counter Balanced C-hook

  • Coil edge protection available.
  • Economical choice for coil handling.
  • Power rotation available.
  • Digital weigh system available.

Spring balanced c-hook from Avon Engineering
Spring Balanced C-hook

  • Eliminates counter weight and minimizes hook weight.
  • Coil edge protection available.
  • Particularly useful for handling large coils.

C-hook

C-hook designed for use
in an acid pickling line
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Coil Tripper C-hook

Coil tripper c-hook from Avon Engineering

  • Custom designed for various capacities and coil sizes.
  • Engineered to pick up palletized small slit coils
    (Bore vertical to horizontal).

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Combo C-Hook & Pallet Lifters

Combo c-hook and pallet lifter

  • Versatile unit to handle coils and palletized materials.
  • Motorized or manual adjustment.

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Coil Grabs

Power rotation coil grab Telescopic coil grab from Avon Engineering
Power Rotation & Telescopic Coil Grabs

  • Telescopic-type rack and pinion design.
  • Motorized or manual adjustment.
  • Optional powered rotation available.
  • Low head room design available.
  • Many coil protection features available.
  • Digital weigh system available.

Motorized rotating coil grab for low headroom applications

Motorized Rotating Coil Grab designed
for low headroom areas
.



Coil grab with an integral weigh system
This Coil Grab with an integral weigh
system has a capacity of 80,000 pounds.


30-metric ton coil grabs shipped to Russia
Five 30-metric ton Coil Grabs shipped
to JSC Severstal in Russia.


Avon Engineering coil grabs in a hot-rolled coil quenching application
Two Coil Grabs in a hot-rolled coil quenching application on
fully automated cranes at California Steel, Pittsburg, CA.

Download Coil Grabs PDF

Download Coil Grab Options PDF

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Pallet Lifters

Rack and pinion pallet lifter from Avon Engineering
Rack and Pinion Pallet Lifter

  • Motorized or manual.
  • Handles sheets and pallets.

Adjustable fork lifter from Avon Engineering
Adjustable Fork Lifter

  • Counter balanced style.
  • Economical choice for pallet handling.
  • Fixed or adjustable forks available.

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Coil Bore Grabs/ID Lifters

ID lifter

  • Suits a range of coil bore and width sizes.
  • Motorized or manual.

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Sheet Lifters

Telescopic sheet lifter from Avon Engineering

  • Telescopic type rack and pinion design.
  • Extension beams available.
  • Motorized or manual.

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Single Rim Vertical Coil Tong

Single rim vertical coil tong

  • Custom designed & built to suit your application.
  • Capacity available up to 50 tons.
  • Proven design.

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Double Rim Vertical Coil Tong

Double rim vertical coil tong

  • Adjustable for various coil dimensions.
  • Compact, lightweight proven design.
  • Custom designed to suit your application.
  • Up to 50-ton capacity.

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Rotating Beams and
Telescopic Magnet Beams

Avon Engineering has considerable experience designing and building lifting and spreader beams for use in primary steel mills, steel service centers, pulp and paper mills, pressrooms and in difficult environments with varied crane layouts.

  • Fully powered rotation with controls that can be integrated into your system.
  • Rotation speeds to suit your needs.
  • Up to 100” telescopic range.
  • Fully automated controls and PLCs to communicate with crane controls.


    Rotating beam designed by Avon Engineering
    Rotating Beam

  • Manual or electric powered rotation.
  • 2-point crane suspension.
  • Limited or 360-degree continuous rotation.
  • Capacity to 200,000 pounds.
  • 1.0 RPM rotation speed.
  • Fixed or pivoting J-hooks.

Telescopic magnet beam from Avon Engineering
Telescopic Magnet Beam

  • Motorized telescopic magnet beams with controls to suit your requirements.
  • 360-degree rotation (if required).
  • Individual magnet rotation available if required.
  • Capacities available to 100,000 pounds below the magnets.
  • Up to 100” telescopic extension at each end.
  • Low-headroom style beams are available.


    This Lifting Beam with five Coil Grabs can
    lift one, three or five coils.



    Mill roll grab 9 ton capacity
    This 90-ton capacity grab
    handles mill
    rolls in a fully
    automated roll grinding cell
    in a steel mill.


    25-ton capacity spreader beam with powered rotation
    Custom-made 25-ton capacity
    spreader beam with powered
    rotation and liftig forks with
    adjustable spacing for handling
    hot beam billets.

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Ladle Hooks

70-ton lifting bail
70-ton Lifting Bail.
Ladle hooks have chase blocks and pins.


35-ton ladle hook with hardened wear bars
35-ton Ladle Hook with Hardened Wear Strips


200-ton capacity ladle hooks
200-ton Capacity Ladle Hooks with
Wear Strips and Bronze Palm Bushings


360-metric
360-metric Ton Ladle Hooks

  • Capacity to 450 tons.
  • Laminated, riveted and welded steel hooks designed to AIST Standard No. 7.
  • Hardened steel pins.
  • Forged steel chase and pivot blocks.
  • Removable hardened wear strips and bronze bushings.
  • Built by skilled craftsmen with decades of experience.

Download Lifting Hooks & Beams PDF

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Clamshell Buckets

Clam Bottom

Clam shell bucket from Avon Engineering

  • Full line of general purpose buckets.
  • 1 cubic yard to 7 ½ cubic yards.
  • Mechanical rope-actuated. Single-line to four-line.
  • Comprehensive inspection and rebuilding services.
  • Optional replaceable digging teeth available.

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Crane Hook Block with Powered Rotation

Crane hook block with powered rotation

  • Designed to suit existing sheave arrangements.
  • Limited or continuous rotation.

Shown with ram’s horn hook and die lift attachment.


Avon power rotating bottom block
Avon power-rotating bottom block.
Our blocks are available with an
optional digital electronic weigh
scale system.

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C-hooks

Coil Tripper
C-hooks

Combo C-hook & Pallet Lifters

Coil Grabs

Pallet Lifters

Coil Bore Grabs

Sheet Lifters

Single Rim Vertical Coil Tong

Double Rim Vertical Coil Tong

Rotating Beams & Telescoping Magnet Beams

Ladle Hooks

Clamshell Buckets

Crane Hook Block with Powered Rotation