MIDSTREAM & PIPELINES
More and More Heavy Lift Projects are Using Vacuum Technology Ceti Suxxesion B.V. was established by myself in 2000. We are specialized in the design and production of so called end of the line attachments. At the end of 2015, the company’s name was changed into Suxxesion B.V. with the brand name, SUXXESION. By Harry Crone
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he custom made tools are designed to handle by means of vacuum or hydraulics loads such as steel or concrete pipes, steel sheets and billets, concrete elements, wing skins, paper reels or any other object which can be lifted by means of vacuum. Ever since I started Suxxesion our main business was and is pipe handling and we have been able to develop equipment which meet today’s requirements of handling speed and safety, thanks to the input from our international customers. Over the past years we have built a variety of devices to handle pipes for pipe manufacturers and pipe coating companies. We also work in harbor areas, railway / road shipping, storage yards and at the pipe stretch, either hydraulically or by means of vacuum. We are glad and thankful that so many people have contacted us leading to long term business relationships. My company is based in a small city called Buren in the heart of the Netherlands. Like many companies we subcontract steel constructions to regionally based qualified suppliers. We have a long term relationship with these companies and where quality is concerned, we constantly strive to achieve higher standards to meet today’s requirements. As a result we are able to meet all the off-shore requirements.
As previously mentioned, the logistic situation is different per site. A typical example is the Multitool 320 DVHKI built for Data Steel in Pakistan. This device is fully integrated in the Reach stacker. Up front we only need a hydraulic oil feed from the carrying machine and 24 V= controlling by means of blue toot data exchange. A new feature is the hydraulic adjustment of the c-c between the suction pads. This in contradiction to equipment earlier supplied to MPC in Germany.
Both applications are typical arrangements that the handling material is dedicated to handle pipes only. The recently built and developed 320DVHKI is a multi-tool solution which can be equipped with pipe spreaders or with a beam with flat pads to handle steel sheets or concrete. Knuckle boom suspended lifting equipment is used in every site situation which handles pipes to load and off load pipes. As far as harbor applications are concerned we are very experienced in handling pipes in combination with HMC’s Reach stackers and Knuckle boom cranes. Case Studies Double pipe lifters operating in Kotka, Finland and Sassnitz Germany suspended from mobile harbor cranes: Devices were in use to load out the concrete lined pipes for the North Stream Project. Before the concrete lining the pipes were handled by means of vacuum. For that purpose we equipped a.o. two container reach trucks with our vacuum system to load and off load the train wagons. For Cogema in Dunkirk France and Adani Port in India we supplied double pipe spreaders to equip container reach stackers. With simple modifications the reach stacker was adapted to use the Suxxesion attachment suspended from the twist locks. After the break bulk job was finished the reach stacker could be used directly when the attachment was released by the twistlock and the hydraulic connections were uncoupled.