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Below the Hook

Overhead Crane Below-the-Hook Lifting Devices

The crane moves the load — the below-the-hook device decides whether it can be handled safely, quickly and without damage. Arvanta represents manufacturers who build these devices for real industrial applications.

Steel spreader beam below-the-hook lifting device suspended from an overhead crane hook

Device Types

What we work with

Standard, modified-standard and fully engineered devices for overhead bridge, gantry and jib cranes.

Lifting and Spreader Beams

Fixed and adjustable beams for long, wide or unbalanced loads, sized to the crane's hook approach and headroom.

Coil, Plate and Sheet Lifters

C-hooks, coil grabs, plate clamps and sheet lifters for steel service centres, mills and fabrication plants.

Lifting Magnets

Permanent, battery-electro and electromagnet systems for plate, billet, scrap and bundle handling.

Vacuum Lifters

Vacuum handling for plate, glass, panels and sheet goods where surface protection matters.

Tongs, Clamps and Grabs

Mechanical and motorized grabs for drums, pipe, blocks, containers and bulk material.

Custom Engineered Lifters

Application-specific devices engineered around the load, the duty cycle and the crane already in the building.

How We Support It

Specified properly, supported locally

Below-the-hook equipment is rarely a catalogue purchase. We work the application with the customer and the factory so the device that arrives is the device the job needs.

  • Application review before anything is quoted
  • Capacity, duty cycle and headroom checked against the existing crane
  • Manufacturer engineering brought directly into the conversation
  • Compliance support for ASME B30.20 / BTH-1 and CSA expectations
  • Distributor and end-user training on safe use and inspection
  • Spare parts, service and long-term factory support

Have a lifting application to solve?

Send us the load, the crane and the environment. We will bring the right manufacturer and the right below-the-hook device to the table.