Paceco, Inc., a subsidiary of Fruehauf Corporation, a major manufacturer of container-handling cranes, recently completed its move from Alameda, Calif., to Gulfport, Miss. Paceco has invested more than $26 million in expanding its 100-acre fabrication facility during the past two years. The facility has in excess of 10 acres of under-roof fabrication area, including a new 58,800-square-foot, air conditioned machine shop.
The fabrication area is connected by rail to a new 38,650-square-foot, environmentally controlled metal preparation and coating facility, and within walking distance of the new three-story headquarters building. The Paceco plant, one of the largest and most modern of its kind, is located on the Harrison County Industrial Seaway.
Activities at the plant include heavy steel fabrication of container-handling, bulk-handling, and heavy-lift cranes for onshore and offshore applications, as well as contract manufacturing and fabrication for the offshore industry including complex subassemblies that require sophisticated machining capabilities. Paceco licensees are located in Japan, Korea, Canada, Italy, Africa, England, France, Australia, Brazil, and Spain.
Paceco and its licensees produce the Portainer® ship-to-shore container cranes with maximum capacities of 51 tons, suitable for rail spans of 36 to 164 feet, as well as high-speed "Mach" cranes that can be fully automated. Models available include A-frame, modified A-frame, low profile, articulated boom, and economy feeder port model. All are available with adjustable lifting spreaders. Rotating trolleys are also available.
Also in the Paceco line is a range of rubber-tired and rail-mounted Transtainer® gantry type cranes for container terminal operations. The basic range has maximum capacities of 40 tons with spans up to 77 feet. Rail-mounted Transtainers have spans up to 164 feet. The standard rubber-tired units span six rows of containers stacked four or five high plus a truck lane. Design features include 90-degree change of travel direction to facilitate changing stacking lanes or areas. Options include automated steering and other features compatible with computer link or automated terminal design.
Paceco also produces a large number of Shipstainer shipboard gantry type container cranes. These are normally installed when vessels are trading with ports where no shoreside container-handling facilities are available. In addition, a range of heavy-lift cranes is available for barge or ship mounting. These large revolving-boom cranes have lifting capacities from 250 to 3,000 tons.
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