The history of Baltkran is inseparable from the history of the formation of the Kaliningrad region. The enterprise, the same age as the region, was created in
extremely difficult times on the basis of three small workshops that previously worked for the German military departments, and began to release the first
products a few months after the end of the Great Patriotic War, in October 1945. In a special project dedicated to its 75th anniversary, based on excerpts
from newspapers and foreign magazines, as well as reviews of leading experts, industry representatives and well-known politicians, we show how one of the oldest
factories developed in the post-war period and became one of the key players in crane manufacturing.
Kaliningradskaya Pravda newspaper
June 12, 1947
"On the stream"
The Kaliningrad Foundry and Mechanical Plant of the Ministry of Heavy Industry produces valuable drilling equipment, including a new type of metal drilling rigs. By the end of the year, we have to deliver 15 such rigs. Urgent measures were needed that would dramatically change the production process. The engineers and technicians of the plant developed a new technology, which made it possible to assemble the rigs by a high-speed flow method.
The assemblers worked hard. Socialist competition for the early completion of the assembly of the rigs was widely developed between the teams. The brigades of comrades Povarov, Gzhelsky and Kulikov have successfully coped with their tasks. People who recently had no idea about assembly work have successfully mastered the difficult skill of assembling metal structures.
V. Odesskiy, director of the foundry and mechanical plant
View of the crane building plant, 1950, and view of Baltkran, 2020 год
Kaliningradskaya Pravda newspaper
August 14, 1966
Crane factory
Our repair and mechanical plant of the Stroymekhanizatsiya trust can rightfully be called a construction veteran in the Kaliningrad region. It is twenty years old. Over the years, it has manufactured about six hundred cranes.
Last year, the plant successfully mastered the production of an MKG crawler crane with a lifting capacity of 6.3 tons. This unit was highly appreciated at the National Economy Achievement Exhibition - it was awarded a second degree diploma.
Testimonial December 28, 1994
Yuri Matochkin, head of the regional administration, member of the Federation Council
We spent several hours at your facility with great pleasure! In difficult times of transition to a market economy, you were able to find not only your place in the world of reforms, but also to determine the right course for the well-being of the enterprise and each member of the team. We know that all this is not easy, a hard work on the modernization of production is in progress and a reassessment of many moral and ethical criteria is taking place.
I wish you health and success.
Machine shop: processing large parts on a screw-cutting lathe, 1949, and amulti-function center with numerical control, 2020
Testimonial January 17, 1995
Det Norske Veritas (Norway)
As a representative for Det Norske Veritas, I am very pleased and grateful for a very pleasant visit to your company in connection with our inspection of the assembly of parts for a Port of Singapore (PSA) crane. We got a good impression of the quality of workmanship at the factory. If the same professionalism as today is present in the future, then the future of the company will be bright. Hope to see you again.
Konrad Rasch, technical inspector
Container Management Magazine April 2002
Cranes for France will be manufactured in Kaliningrad
As a result of close technical cooperation between the German crane building company Noell Crane Systems GmbH, Baltkran received an order for the complete production and delivery of 5 large rail mounted gantry cranes (1 STS, and 4 yard cranes) with a capacity 40 tons. The order received in February 2002 is intended for the tri-modal port of Dourges (France).
Control cabin with power cam controllers, 1967 and Comfort control cabin with excellent panoramic view, load weight control, video surveillance and
crane control system on the monitor. Gantry crane 2020
Cranes Today Magazine May 2002
"Erecting personnel in China"
A group of experienced erectors traveled to China on March 15 to set up high quality lifting equipment supplied by Baltkran. The company will manufacture 62 overhead traveling cranes for the Lianyungan nuclear power plant, which is currently under construction 400 km from Shanghai, a large and rapidly developing industrial and business center. The project will last until 2003, at the moment crane No. 21 is being shipped.
Testimonial November 16, 2016
American President Lines (USA)
Russian company Baltkran. together with Noell Cranes, delivered to APL ten (10) RMG's with a capacity of 50 LT. The RMG's were manufactured and assembled in Kaliningrad and transported fully erected to the APL terminal at the Port of Los Angeles in California, USA. The RMG's were commissioned in 1997 and have been in continuous service at the on-dock microbial rail facility at APL's terminal to the present time.
The RMG's have provided excellent performance through these years with high efficiency and service availability. APL is very satisfied with the quality and service that these RMG's have provided By operating these electric RMG's, we have been able to significantly lower air emissions relative to alternative operating equipment. This has helped us meet the terminal commitments for better air quality in the Los Angeles basin.
Sincerely, David K. Olsen Director. Engineering American President Linos, Ltd.
The plant’s products: a gantry crane, with a lifting capacity of 3.2 tons, 1962, and powerful container handlers with a lifting capacity of 50 tons, APL terminal in the port of Los Angeles (California, USA), 2016
Lift & Hoist International Magazine August 2012
Baltkran manufatures the 100th nuclear crane
The Russian manufacturer Baltkran from Kaliningrad earlier this year manufactured the 100th crane for the nuclear industry for the turbine hall of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant. The 500 ton crane will primarily be used for the installation of the turbine and generator stators, and will also handle other heavy loads. The crane is equipped with a double trolley transverse movement system, which allows tandem lifting and precise assembly thanks to its micro-movement capability. Baltkran is currently producing a similar crane for the Baltic Nuclear Power Plant.
HOIST Magazine 2014 February
European formula
Over the past 18 months, Baltkran has received many orders for the transport industry. Sales grew by 9%. The largest number of orders were received for container cranes, accounting for 56% of the total number of orders. And this position remains the strongest in terms of demand, among crane-building enterprises from Russia "- explains N.V Golovina ." The economy of the Russian Federation continues to develop, and is stable enough at the moment to be able to observe stable investments in container terminals, and as a result, the growth of orders in this industry. Thus, Baltkran supplied 13 container cranes to various regions of the country within two years."
Testimonial March 26, 2017
NPCIL, Nuclear Power Corporation of India
During the final acceptance of the 180 + 180/32 t overhead crane for the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (India), I was very pleased with its quality. Baltkran has done a tremendous, splendid job in manufacturing such sophisticated equipment. I officially express my gratitude to the company and all its staff.
Raghava Rao, Quality Inspector
The plant's products: a davit with a lifting capacity of 1.5 t with a span of 16 m, 1955, and an overhead crane with a lifting capacity of 440 t with a span of 47 m, installation of a stater-generator in the turbine hall of the Leningrad NPP, 2015
World Cargo News Magazine February 2020
Baltkran RTGs make their debut
Crane manufacturer Baltkran, based in Russia’s Kaliningrad ex-clave, is best known for RMGs for rail terminals and industrial applications, including cranes for operation in extreme climatic conditions. In a significant development, the company is now also sup-plying RTGs. A machine was recently delivered to a rail terminal in Brest, the key rail ‘gauge break’ facility near the Belarus-Poland border.
Business has been growing strongly there, due largely to increasing China-Western Europe intermodal rail flows.
The products of the plant: crawler crane diesel-electric MKG with a lifting capacity of 6.3 t, 1965 and the first rubber-tyred container gantry crane with a lifting capacity of 41 t, 2015.
Testimonial 8 August 2020
Baltic shipyard "Yantar"
The Yantar shipyard has been handling loads using portal, gantry and overhead cranes of the Baltkran company for several decades.
Some portal cranes on berths have been in operation for more than 50-60 years. The company's products meet our technical requirements for operation in a shipyard. Service support of cranes is carried out efficiently and in a timely manner . We are grateful to the Baltkran company for the successful cooperation that has lasted 75 years.
T.S. Zolin, Acting Chief Engineer.
Products of the plant: One of the first tower cranes with a 5-ton load capacity at the Yantar shipyard, 1958, and a modern portal crane with a 20-ton articulated boom, delivered to Surgutneftegaz (Western Siberia), 2019
It is difficult to overestimate the contribution of Baltkran to the development of Kaliningrad as an industrial center in the far west of Russia.
Map of deliveries of Baltkran’s products in 1960 and 2020
Baltkran is important for Kaliningrad as well as Kaliningrad is important for Baltkran.
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