KRÖGER Greifertechnik GmbH & Co. KG Steinheide 1 – 9 • D-47665 Sonsbeck Phone +49 2838 37-0 Fax +49 2838 37-39 info@kroeger-greifertechnik.de www.kroeger-greifertechnik.de “Leading-edge grabs.”

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KRÖGER Greifertechnik.KRÖGER expertise for leading-edge grabs.When Werner Kröger founded his machine factory in 1962, it initially produced solutions that focussed on the construction industry. These were later followed by grabs for underwater gravel and sand extraction, port and industrial bulk handling and the timber and steel industries. Since the 1990s, leading-edge grab products from the Lower Rhine region of Germany have also been employed in the refuse and recycling sector and in incin-eration plants.

KRÖGER Greifertechnik is now a leading supplier of pre-mium grab solutions providing customers with fifty years of design, development, production and service ex-pertise. Cable, motor-driven and hydraulic grabs are now manufactured using ad-vanced production sys-tems at the plant in Sonsbeck. KRÖGER is a medium size company that is firmly established in the region. Grabs from its production location on the Lower Rhine are used the world over and are particularly popular in Europe.

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Tangible benefits from KRÖGER.KRÖGER grabs are typically used in ports, refuse incineration plants and steel and gravel works. Its series and industry-spe-cific products as well as solutions tailored to meet individual customer needs set high technical standards for particularly cost-effective operation. Their zero-main-tenance requirement saves valuable time and money on site. KRÖGER grabs need no lubrication and operate with mini-mum wear, leading the industry with decisive cost management benefits.

Swift response. Fast repairs. Service from KRÖGER.KRÖGER support and technical service is the key to customer satisfaction. No matter where you are, KRÖGER is ready to help 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Also thanks to the large number of spare parts that are avail-able from stock, repairs are usually carried out on site quickly and without delay, wherever necessary.

“Leading-edge grabs.”Identifying and meeting tomorrow’s needs before anyone else has always been KRÖGER Greifertechnik‘s trade-mark. It will continue to pave the way in future to provide its customers with tangible benefits all over the world.

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Unrivalled with high added value for maximum profitability. Lift for lift. Zero maintenance. KRÖGER provides its customers with lasting benefits all over the world.Besides all of their other quality features, grabs from KRÖGER – cable and motor-driven grabs, small series or large individual hydraulic grabs – all stand out thanks to their zero-maintenance requirement. Customers not only benefit from cost-effec-tive operation, but also from reliability and a high level of environmental protection.

While conventional grabs used in three-shift operation often require up to 45 hours of pro-duction downtime per month for lubrication of their seals and bearings, KRÖGER grabs carry on working without any interruption thanks to their encapsulated zero-maintenance lifetime lubrication sys-tems. They also prevent grease from coming into contact with sensitive goods, such as foodstuffs, or water in gravel and sand extraction operations. This added value has made KRÖGER a technology leader.

Reliability. With a wearing part guar-antee of up to 180,000 grab operations.Zero maintenance, rugged design, durability. KRÖGER grabs offer performance that counts – for a long service life. Guaranteed by a sup-plier that meets its customers’ demanding needs all over the world – high quality made in Sonsbeck.

Cost-effective. The bottom line counts.KRÖGER grabs are an investment in rugged, advanced grab solutions with the certainty of many years of reliable operation. An invest-ment that pays off.

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Hydraulic grabs. Faster. More efficient. KRÖGER.KRÖGER hydraulic grab solutions provide a number of advantages in materials handling applications, where efficiency is a key factor.

Their operating speed and extremely long service life are now recognized all over the world. KRÖGER hydraulic grabs feature a weight-optimised design for optimum use of the machine’s load bearing capacity to achieve maximum handling rates – adding further value for measurable productivity benefits.

The wide range of grab types and sizes for specific applications – from the smallest hydraulic series grabs to large grabs designed for specific requirements – also offer profitability and efficiency for every lift.

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Cargo handling in ports. A challenge for both man and machine.In seaports and inland harbours of all sizes, short handling times and, therefore, less idle time is a high priority for any port operator. These factors largely depend on the reliability, rugged design and minimum maintenance requirements of the handling equipment.With its wide range of grabs, KRÖGER is ideally suited to meet the punishing demands of round-the-clock port operation and virtually all handling requirements – also for grab designs tailored to meet individual needs. Depending on the handling equipment, grabs can be supplied with a hydraulic, electro-hydraulic or mechani-cal rope drive for unloading all types of bulk materials from small domestic ships to seagoing vessels.

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Handling scrap and timber. KRÖGER grabs are not only at home in port operations.Due to the increasing shortage of resources, scrap has become a key material in steel production. Whether for operation in ports, storage yards or large steelworks, KRÖGER grabs are designed right down to the last detail to meet the special needs of scrap handling applications – from car bodies and steel chips to shredded scrap. They are ideally suited for all types of materials handling machinery.

Reliable grabs supplied by KRÖGER for spe-cific applications are also increasingly being used to handle timber in ports and in the wood-processing industry. KRÖGER grabs are used to handle logs, stacked timber and wood chips with a wide variety of crane installations.

Energy from refuse. A prime reference application for zero-maintenance KRÖGER grabs.Biomass and refuse are increasingly being used to generate energy in Europe and throughout the world. KRÖGER has also served this industry as an important and reliable partner for many years. The zero-mainte-nance asset of KRÖGER grabs provides enormous effi-ciency and reliability benefits, particularly in incinera-tion plants for domestic refuse and refuse-derived fuels, combined heat and power plants and in slag handling applications – where maintenance and lubrication work is costly and often poses a risk for service technicians in extremely harsh working environments with only poor access. KRÖGER offers cable and motor-driven grabs for a wide variety of crane installations in this sector.

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Gravel and sand extraction. Synonymous with KRÖGER Greifertechnik.Since the company was founded, KRÖGER Greifer-technik has played an important role in harsh applica-tions where floating dredgers and cable dredgers are used in all river and sea dredging areas to extract gravel and sand in countless locations throughout Europe. Our zero-maintenance underwater motor-driven and cable grabs help to protect the environ-ment and ensure improved productivity, particularly in awkward ground condi-tions or at extreme operating depths. This is demonstrated by the latest record. KRÖGER Greifertechnik is the European leader with an underwater cable grab that operated at a dredging depth of 177 metres while working in Lake Lucerne. After all, experience pays off. And relia-bility counts – also in deep gravel and sand extraction applications.

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Design and production. Expertise right from the start.KRÖGER design engineers provide their customers with leading-edge grabs with each new product. High-performance 3D CAD systems are used for development right down to the smallest design detail. And because KRÖGER, like its customers all over the world, does not accept standstill, every component is subject to continu-ous further development.

State-of-the-art technology is combined with 50 years of expertise to meet tomorrow’s needs. In this way, grab specialist KRÖGER creates reliable, high-quality products to achieve outstanding handling performance.

The result can be seen in the manufactur-ing facility, where a team of qualified employees builds high-quality products on advanced production systems.

Renewable guarantee. The special KRÖGER warranty.Companies that offer outstanding quality can supply exceptional guarantees. With its multi-level repair and refurbishment service, KRÖGER offers not only its regular custom-ers an extremely cost-effective option. The range of grab refurbishment services also goes as far as a general overhaul of your grab with a new guarantee. This investment pays off, even if costs amount to more than 50 % of the price of a new grab. And this ser-vice is available for all brands, since KRÖGER technicians work on all grabs.