Somers Handle With Care

SOMERS
H a n d l i n g
S o l u t i o n s
ATLAS HOUSE ,
4/6 BELWELL LANE ,
FOUR OAKS,
S U T T O N C O L D F I E L D,
WEST MIDLANDS
B74 4AB
TELEPHONE: +44 (0)870 197 5500
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Lifting
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Tongs
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Slab and
Pack
Handlers
Grabs
Slewing
Hooks
Sheet
Lifters
Down
Enders
SOMERS
G l o b a l
H a n d l i n g
S o l u t i o n s
Not all solutions need to be
complex, but they do need to
be effective, 100% effective;
they also need to be totally
suited to the application in
hand. Because Lloyds Somers
design engineers specifically
address every single issue they are. Their aim is to ensure
that our solutions not only
perform exactly as ordered but where possible, far,
far, better.
SOMERS
PERFORMANCE
DRIVEN SOLUTIONS
Advanced CAD/CAM
facilities ensure optimum
product performance.
Design
Fabrication
Installation
Commissioning
and on-site
Service.
Because of the wide range of
industries our customers operate
in, it is impossible to produce a
complete catalogue of products,
but what follows is a fair cross
section of the industries we work
in, and a small selection of the
solutions we have developed.
All Lloyds welders are
Coded to conform to
BSEN 287-1: 1992 and
BS4872: Part 1: 1982
BIRDPORT LIMITED
A 20 tonne Coil Handling
Beam manufactured for
warehousing operations
at Newport, Wales.
S C I S S O R TA B L E
One of the key advantages
Lloyds Somers offer you is their
depth of experience and skill
across such a broad spectrum of
applications and industries - so
whatever your problem, there is a
solution - from Lloyds Somers.
Designed by Lloyds Somers
for the precise lifting,
lowering and support of
components.
SPECIALIST LIFTER
Designed for BMW, Swindon,
this specialist lifter can handle
a variety of loads.
FURNACE CHARGER
A Lloyds Somers Passover
Furnace Charger
CORUS
Ready for return to
Port Talbot, a hydraulic Scrap
Baler fully overhauled and
renovated for British Steel.
Lifting
Lowering
Holding
Positioning
Rotating
S3 S O M E R S
SENSING SYSTEMS
Dramatically reducing the
problems of handling damage
in a variety of industries.
R O V E R B O DY PA N E L S
A Lloyds Somers 30 tonne
Motorised Coil Lifter operating
at the Rover, Swindon, Body
Panel production facility.
ALCAN
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A Lloyds Somers aluminium
A typical Floor Mounted
Down Ender stripping an
Tilter designed by
aluminium slab from a vertical
Lloyds Somers
casting machine.
ALCOA
A specialist Slab Rotator, designed,
manufactured, installed, and
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APPROVED
WELDING
commissioned by Lloyds Somers.
Hands-free
solutions, proven
across a wide range
of lifting
environments.
160 tonne Automatic Ingot Tong,
designed and built by Lloyds Somers
for Creusot Loire Industrie, France.
Lloyds Somers offer a complete
range of Automatic Scissor
Tong design options for handling
“rounds”. In fact, almost any
profile can be handled
by the Somers system.
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The Lloyds Somers
Automatic Scissor Tong
design is very adaptable to
specialist applications, as
seen in this Tong designed
for handling
wire coils.
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30 tonne Duplex Tandem
Work Roll Tong at Corus
Hot Mill, Port Talbot.
A Lloyds Somers Standard
Automatic Tong for handling
billets and slabs offers
complete lifting capability
with very little need for
maintenance or servicing.
Bottom left:
A Lloyds Somers designed
and manufactured 45 tonne
Crane Dogging Duplex
1 .LOWERING
2 . O N C O N TA C T
3.LIFTING
With the tongs
locked open.
As the levers
collapse,
the locking
mechanism
is released.
As the
tongs close
on the load,
the jaws grip.
Slab Tong.
34 tonne Motorised
Quadruplex Multi-billet Tong
for a French Steel Mill.
The Lloyds Somers Scissor
Tong can be arranged in
practically any combination
and for any application. There
in no maximum size or
limitation on weight.
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With Health and Safety legislation now a major consideration
in every material handling procedure, it’s also one of the most
important reasons for choosing Lloyds Somers lifting systems.
The unique Lloyds Somers scissor concept automatically locks
Because every Lloyds Somers scissor system is fully automatic,
the jaws open or closed, so it is extremely reliable and very
that means there is no need for any operator intervention
safe - and what’s more, it requires no external power or
throughout the entire lifting cycle. So, with Lloyds Somers, the
crane modification of any sort. That makes Lloyds Somers the
possibility of trapped fingers, or manhandling of cumbersome
ideal choice for a wide variety of lifting tasks where a long,
lifting equipment, doesn’t present itself.
trouble-free, low-maintenance operating life is vital.
Left:
The Lloyds Somers
Scissor Tong is ideally
suited to heavy lifting
in hot, hostile
environments.
Automatic Copper
Tube Basket Tong at
IMI Copper Tubes Limited,
Liverpool.
70 Tonne Crane Operated
Duplex Slab Tong, at Corus,
Port Talbot.
Duplex Roll Lifter,
Corus Hot Mill,
Port Talbot.
4.ON LOWERING
5.LIFTING CLEAR
The mechanism
locks the jaws open,
ready to lift
clear.
The tong
is lifted clear, with
the jaws opened
for the next cycle.
Bottom Right:
Automatic Simplex Tong,
Alcan, Falkirk.
HULETT ALUMINIUM PTY . SOUTH AFRICA
The entire operation of the Hulett Aluminium processing plant in South Africa
has been designed with automation in mind. Reliability of lifting systems
on all of Hulett’s 34 cranes is vital. Every lifter used by Hulett has been
specifically designed, manufactured and installed by Lloyds Somers.
Pictured (right) is a 25 tonne Duplex Tong which was supplied alongside
2 Motorised Duplex Slab Grabs, 1 Aluminium Down-Ender, 4 Motorised Coil
Lifters, a Combination Grab, 2 Sheet Pack Lifters, 2 ‘C’ Hooks and a
25 tonne Simplex Tong.
Coil Handling Solutions.
1. 32 Tonne Hydraulic
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Parallelogram Coil Lifter
operating in the British Steel
Hot Sheet Finishing Mill,
LLanwern, South Wales.
2. 34 Tonne Telescopic Coil Lifter,
British Steel Cold Mill, Port Talbot,
South Wales.
3. Multi-load, motorised
Aluminium Tray Lifter, designed
and manufactured for Alcoa,
Swansea, South Wales.
4. Low Headroom Coil Handler.
5. Combination Coil and Pallet
Lifter for Chile.
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6. 20 Tonne Coil Handling Beam,
Bridport, Newport, Wales.
7. 34 Tonne Capacity ‘C’ Hook
manufactured for the British Steel
Hot Sheet Finishing Mill,
Port Talbot, South Wales.
8. Coil Transfer Car for
Aluminium Coil Handling.
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9. Vertical to coil bore horizontal
achieved without additional lifting
equipment or a conventional floor
mounted lifter.
One Total Service.
Almost no two companies have exactly the same needs for coil handling; they may be similar - but not the same. So too with Lloyds Somers coil
handling solutions, every possible option you could need is available. From individually fabricated lifting beams and ‘C’ hooks, to fully automatic systems
for coated coils - Lloyds Somers offer you a total service in design, manufacture, installation and on-site maintenance.
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SENSING
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Lloyds Somers unique sensing
systems began with the needs
of the steel industry to eliminate
overclamping damage, and also
the requirement to detect coil
bores through a wide variety of
bore lining materials.
Remote mounted pressure
sensors in the lifting feet and
full length leg mounted sensor
plates detect the precise
moment of safe clamping
pressure - no more, and no less.
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Bright LED status lights indicate
the status of each of the sensing
systems. Green shows leg drive
motors stopped by leg plates
contacting coil walls. Amber
indicates both lifting feet are in
contact with the coil. Red shows
lifting feet are aligned with the
coil bore.
One Complete System.
S3 systems can also offer a coil
proximity sensing option and fully
automated data-logging.
The advent of pre-coating and finishing has seen the Lloyds Somers Sensing Systems make a major contribution in damage elimination. The S3 systems,
which can detect coil edges to prevent overclamping, coil proximities to eliminate collisions, and racking centres for safe storage, can also be equipped
with datalogging interface facilities for precise inventory control. The only impact Lloyds Somers Sensing systems make - is on the balance sheet.
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Developing individual
specialist systems for
very safe, stable,handling.
16 tonne Hydraulic Down-Ender, Alcan.
Spark-free Rotator developed for ALCOA.
Motorised Duplex Slab Grab for horizontal aluminium slab handling.
Crane mounted aluminium Slab Rotator.
Across the world, the standards now being demanded in every industry
But new methodologies are not just simplifying handling - they’re delivering significantly
for material handling and manipulation are the highest ever. With increased
increased production figures too. Remarkably, that’s not often accounted for in the initial
emphasis on QA and damage elimination, and increased Health and Safety
enquiry, but delivering optimum handling performance, teamed with eliminating handling
requirements, many production processes have been forced to
damage, has always delivered a measurable increase in production efficiency
develop new methodologies.
and product yield. Lloyds Somers can bring an engineering advantage to
Lifting, lowering, rotating and stacking - have all seen radical
almost any area of material manipulation. Partly, this is because LLoyds
changes in their requirements. Of course, the first priority has
Somers already have practically all the systems in place to build an effective
always been handling with safety; but now, with increasing
handling solution. But even more importantly, Lloyds Somers have a
emphasis on material quality, because any
damage caused by handling
is also seen as unacceptable.
All fabrication exceeds the most
demanding Quality standards,
and is approved to the
highest specifications.
worldwide track record of really understanding
customers’ needs; they talk your language and they
understand your problems - and they can deliver the
right answers, wherever you are.
From raw material stockholding, through production process manipulation,
spark-proof pneumatic actuation, high temperature hydraulics, and even high stability
to finished product storage and despatch, every area of industry has its own
systems for molten material lifting.
unique problems; its own unique requirements. Lloyds Somers engineers
Whatever the requirement, Lloyds Somers’ engineers deliver 100% performance driven
understand this, that is why the ability to accommodate very specialised
solutions - solutions that are production proven, not just across the world,
requirements is seen as a vital consideration - requirements such as
but across the widest range of industries.
Sheet Pack Lifter, China Steel.
Spreader Beams at Alstom.
Lifting system at CORUS, Port Talbot.
Multi-function Sheet Lifter at Rover Swindon.
Motorised Roll Handling Grab.
Hydraulic Billet Tong, Sandvik, Sweden.
The first thing every
production problem
needs - is proven thinking.
From the strength of engineering design and stress analysis, to the quality
To achieve this, there’s no substitute for a solid foundation in design engineering
of welding and fabrication, Lloyds Somers primary aim is to deliver material
and a passion for solving handling problems. Actually, the extent of Lloyds Somers
handling excellence and proven production performance. At this level,
industry experience is probably unique, and almost certainly it’s unequalled. But
compromise is never a consideration, because if the first fundamental is to
what that experience means is, whatever problem a customer faces, Lloyds Somers
design a system which exactly matches the tasks specified by the customer
may well have addressed it already, or at least - something very similar.
and Lloyds Somers’ own project team, then the second objective is to
exceed them.
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Modification,
overhaul,
and rebuilding.
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What’s the best thing to do when a slab tong or coil lifter
won’t work?
What’s the quickest and most cost-effective way to get a repair?
What about emergency damage?
And why does it take so long to get it done anyway?
Accidents happen, and every lifting system needs overhauling
sooner or later.
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But Lloyds Somers recognised that far too many manufacturers were
less than co-operative when it came to dealing with customers’ repair
and maintenance problems. In many
ways it’s understandable - with
hard pressed production facilities
under pressure to get out new
orders, maintenance and repair
jobs are bound to get pushed
to the back. Right?
At some companies, maybe.
But not at Lloyds Somers.
The maintenance and service division
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SENSING
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Lloyds Somers created is a totally separate unit - in a totally
different location, staffed with maintenance, repair and modification
specialists - they all operate to exactly the same standards as
Lloyds Somers, but are dedicated and focused on delivering absolute
excellence in after sales.
Their primary consideration is safety - ensuring your lifting
systems are returned to 100% operational efficiency - and
as quickly as humanly possible.
1. A CORUS 113 tonne Duplex Dogging Tong ready for complete strip-down, inspection and report.
2. The dedicated Maintenance and Overhaul facilities can accommodate a large variety and size of lifters.
3. The finished Product, a fully overhauled Scrap Baler about to be returned to CORUS, Port Talbot.
In an emergency breakdown, the first priority is to accurately
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assess the condition. Immediately upon receipt of instructions
a full strip and inspection is undertaken and a detailed report
prepared - together with a firm and fixed quotation. Once that
is approved, work can commence, and the lifter is returned safe,
sound, tested and certified - as good as the day it was made.
Exactly the same
applies to overhaul.
The first priority
is to strip, inspect
and report, then
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everything is quoted
up front, so you’ll know exactly what you’re paying, and how long
your lifter will be out of commission.
With Lloyds Somers on-site servicing, as well as keeping your
systems in optimum condition, the service team closely monitors
component wear rates and can often predict potential failures and often prevent emergency breakdowns. That alone can more
than justify on site servicing.
But the world moves on, and industry doesn’t stand still. So what
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happens when your business needs change? By refitting and
modifying your lifting systems, Lloyds Somers can ensure your
lifters stay cost-effective and efficient, bringing your systems right
up to date - and keeping your business ahead of
the competition.
4. The fully refurbished 113 tonne Duplex Tong about to be returned to CORUS, Llanwern.
5. A Somers Duplex Work Roll Tong modified with spring loaded chock supports.
6. Lloyds Somers can overhaul any handling system, as with this Parallelogram Coil Lifter from Port
Talbot.
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