{"id":8248,"date":"2020-09-01T04:12:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T04:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2020-08-31T18:15:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:15:42","slug":"new-airpes-americas-backshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/new-airpes-americas-backshop\/","title":{"rendered":"New Airpes Americas Backshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Airpes<\/a>, a manufacturer of lifting, weighing and below-the-hook equipment, has announced plans to open a backshop that will principally service primary metals, wind and other severe duty applications.<\/p>\n

The most demanding of environments where overhead cranes and hoists are installed require the lifting equipment to work in almost continuous duty\u2014to Crane Manufacturers Association of America (CMAA) Class F, for example. For equipment providers, this means products are only one facet of a service offering, at least at the top end of the market.<\/p>\n

Tad Dunville, general manager at Airpes Americas<\/a>, explained that, accordingly, Spain-headquartered Airpes is transitioning to the next stage of a three-phase roadmap in North America.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe started by securing a formal presence in the U.S., where experienced management was empowered to sell series production lifting tools in the region; we then expanded infrastructure through sales reps and dealers on a national network; and now we are providing a backshop and technical support to our dealer partners for certain issues they don\u2019t or can\u2019t handle, as well as engineered lifting beams for the wind industry with a dual-citizenship technical director. In short, we are providing the most comprehensive support possible for our products anywhere in the USA and Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex Lozano, technical director at Airpes Americas<\/a>, said: \u201cI spend most of my day supporting wind energy lifting customers and I\u2019m excited to help our EOT [electric overhead traveling] crane customers as well now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This grab is attached to an Airpes rotating block.<\/p><\/div>\n

Airpes<\/a> recently installed a (CMAA Class F) 40-ton capacity coil grab with rotating bottom block at North American Stainless (NAS), a Kentucky producer of stainless steel. Through Wisconsin-based partner WD Industries (WDI), the lifecycle of the below-the-hook system will be overseen by a manufacturers\u2019 representative agency, with a specialized focus on primary metals, paper, petrochemical, mining, construction, and heavy equipment manufacturing.<\/p>\n

Jesse Shively, crane maintenance supervisor at NAS, said: \u201cWe prefer the Airpes<\/a> grab [to other brands] because it is far more substantially built and we are really happy to have a robust local service and support infrastructure to attend to the small details.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justin Wieners, business development at WDI, said: \u201cActually, our contacts at NAS wish the grab was working in an even higher production area, such has been the reliability of the lifter. Having said that, they get peace of mind in knowing that we\u2019re based 45 minutes up the road and have been equipped by the manufacturer to serve as resource, if required. To be able to rebuild grabs at the dealership\u2014having entered the process at the point of consultation\u2014is outside of the norm in terms of mill-duty lifting equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dunville said: \u201cIt serves as a barometer by which to measure our ongoing expansion in terms of service infrastructure. Yes, we offered the best price, value-added engineering and a very robust design, but WDI\u2019s proximity and ability to back it up will make a huge difference to the partnership going forward. Nobody wants to know how smart we are, they want to know how quickly we can support them. We don\u2019t want to be the bottom feeder\u2014ever. We all know who those guys are, and they\u2019re constantly creating problems for owners with inexpensive components that have no support network.\u201d<\/p>\n

Airpes<\/a> has three principle lines of business, namely pre-engineered weighing and monitoring kits for overhead cranes, including load cells, overload protection, readouts, and data loggers; engineered lifting devices for wind turbine erection; and engineered below-the-hook devices, such as coil grabs, rotating blocks, and magnets.<\/p>\n

Dunville added: \u201cIt\u2019s a clich\u00e9, but in this business, you can\u2019t authentically love what you do, listen to customers, and learn from mistakes, if you don\u2019t have a dealer-only policy that puts the end user first. I acknowledge that we\u2019re not at the finish line yet in terms of our backshop infrastructure, but we\u2019re making great strides. We don\u2019t work with everybody; we\u2019re highly selective about our partners, which is another criteria in effective dealer-led growth strategy. They have to be given the tools to oversee product lifecycle\u2014not only the light lifting\u2014with all the process and repeatability that has to come with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Airpes, a manufacturer of lifting, weighing and below-the-hook equipment, has announced plans to open a backshop that will principally service primary metals, wind and other severe duty applications. The most demanding of environments where overhead cranes and hoists are installed require the lifting equipment to work in almost continuous duty\u2014to Crane Manufacturers Association of America… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[1511,39,1455,64,314,74,2196,87,1882,4986,1426],"class_list":["post-8248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-featured","category-news","tag-airpes","tag-below-the-hook","tag-below-the-hook-equipment","tag-cmaa","tag-crane","tag-cranes","tag-lifting-attachments","tag-overhead-crane","tag-overhead-crane-and-hoist","tag-primary-metals","tag-steel-crane"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew Airpes Americas Backshop - Find A Distributor Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/new-airpes-americas-backshop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Airpes Americas Backshop - Find A Distributor Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Airpes, a manufacturer of lifting, weighing and below-the-hook equipment, has announced plans to open a backshop that will principally service primary metals, wind and other severe duty applications. 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