In late 2014, Redaelli Tecna Ropes & Lifting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd (Redaelli Shanghai) receives a purchase order of anchor wire ropes for the building of Yantai Salvage Bureau’s 5000T Salvage Crane Vessel. Recently, the company receives another purchase order of wire ropes for the crane of this Salvage Crane Vessel. The builder of this vessel is Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry (Group) Co., Ltd.
The diameter of the largest non-rotating steel wire ropes supplied is 118mm, and its length is 3500m. This is the heaviest and longest wire rope in China yet.
The 5000T salvage vessel is 199m long, 47.6m wide and the moulded depth is 15m. The vessel’s maximum speed reaches 13.5 knot, designed draft is 7.5m, and navigable height is 56m. The expected delivery time of the vessel is late 2015. The vessel is used for emergency salvage missions, and will also serve the offshore industries.
Headquartered in the Italian city of Milan, Redaelli has 200 years of experience manufacturing wire ropes. The company has factories in Brescia and Trieste. Redaelli wire ropes are widely used in offshore, mining and construction industries. Redaelli Shanghai, the branch company of Radaelli, is well established in the Chinese market since 2009 as shown by its high growth in sales. FLEXPACK, Redaelli’s wire rope for offshore usages, has broken the Guinness World Records for three times as the heaviest wire rope in the world. The company expects to break another World Record in the near future, probably in China.
This article is published on LRW Magazine vol20, 2015.
