The kiln runs hot,
year-round.
A cement plant runs a continuous, high-temperature process where the heavy equipment is massive, the maintenance windows are short, and a missed outage milestone costs a quarter of production. We engineer the crane lift for that equipment — kiln sections, mills, crushers, silos, preheater-tower gear — with sealed lift plans, the right rigging, and a lift record that holds up. The producer runs the plant ; we get the heavy equipment in and out on schedule.
ASME B30.5
Mobile crane standard, methodology-grade
CSA Z150
Quebec provincial lift-plan code
24 h
Emergency lift plans — plants Canada-wide
0
Plant lifts without a sealed plan in hand
Six exposures across the plant.
Cement + aggregate risk is heavy, hot, and schedule-driven : a kiln section that overruns its outage window, a mill drop, a tall preheater-tower lift over live equipment. The exposures below are what sealed lift plans exist to control. Every Maxor engagement addresses them explicitly.
Outage-window overrun
Kiln + mill maintenance happens in a tight outage — the plant is down and burning money until the equipment is back. A lift that overruns drags the restart. The lift plan sequences the heavy picks to bring the plant back on schedule.
Kiln-section / mill drop
A dropped kiln section or mill component is a multi-million-dollar loss + a months-long replacement. Capacity utilization documented per pick ; the contingency matrix maps the keep-clear before the crane sets up.
Tall lift over live plant
Preheater-tower + silo lifts go high, over running equipment, in a congested plant. Swing arc + clearance plotted against the as-built ; CRANEbee 3D where the geometry is tight.
High-temperature + dust environment
Lifts near a hot kiln + in a heavy-dust environment stress steel rigging. Murlink synthetic rigging is light + abrasion-resistant where it fits ; the lift plan documents the hot-zone keep-clear.
Crane setup on quarry ground
Aggregate sites sit on variable, worked ground — bearing capacity isn't a given. Ground-bearing pressure is checked against the pick ; mats + setup documented in the plan.
Crane failure in a confined plant
Tip-over or boom collapse in a tight cement plant is a fatality + a plant loss. Capacity utilization documented per pick ; the contingency matrix maps the keep-clear around live process equipment.
Six operations we engineer the lift for.
Cement + aggregate plants run a defined set of heavy equipment. We engineer the lift for each — from the kiln to the quarry crusher. Six concrete fits.
Kiln section + tyre lifts
Kiln sections, tyres, rollers, and drive components set in a tight outage. High-temperature keep-clear documented. Sequenced to bring the kiln back on schedule.
Mill + grinding equipment
Ball + vertical mills, grinding rollers, separators, and drive trains. Heavy, precise picks in a confined plant. Repeat-pick efficiency for mill rebuilds.
Crusher + quarry equipment
Primary + secondary crushers, screens, and quarry-plant components — set on variable ground with bearing capacity checked. Mats + setup documented.
Silo + preheater-tower equipment
Silo equipment, preheater-tower cyclones + ducting, and bin structures. Tall + confined lifts over a live plant ; CRANEbee 3D where the bay is tight.
Synthetic rigging where steel won't fit
Dyneema® synthetic rigging for high, awkward, or weight-sensitive picks — light, abrasion-resistant, non-marking. Authorized Quebec distribution.
Lift + asset record
Every plant lift in one auditable record — sealed plans, capacity utilization, rigging certs — sovereign and ready for the producer's maintenance dossier.
Cement & Aggregates in the field
From sector context to the lifts we engineer — a look at where this work happens.
The standards we work to.
We cite the crane + rigging standards on every lift plan. The process + plant engineering is the producer's — we engineer the lift to the standard the plant is audited against.
Mobile and locomotive cranes
The mobile crane safety standard — load charts, capacity, setup, operation. Cited on every cement-plant lift plan as the methodology baseline.
Mobile crane safety + operator competency
The Canadian mobile crane standard ; in Quebec, Norme Z150 is the provincial lift-plan code. Cited on every engagement in its jurisdiction.
Slings + rigging hardware
Governs slings, shackles, links, and connecting hardware. Cited on the rigging spec — each component rated for the pick, synthetic or steel.
Planning for the lifting of loads
The lift-planning methodology standard — engineering a pick before it happens. The backbone of every plan we deliver.
Lift-truck + material-handling safety
Where plant material handling intersects the lift, B335 governs the equipment. Cited where the lift hands off to plant handling.
Mine + quarry safety
Aggregate quarries fall under mine-safety jurisdiction. Our quarry lift plans are built to the applicable provincial mine-safety framework.
Four capability lines. One plant engagement.
Maxor's four service pillars all show up at a cement + aggregate plant — the lift, the simulation, the rigging, and the record. Here's how each earns its place.
Sealed plans + emergency response
Kiln, mill, crusher, and silo lifts, single-crane to multi-crane tandem, sequenced into the outage window. Same-day emergency tier when a breakdown threatens production. Capacity utilization per pick ; Z150 / B30.5 cited inline.
Distribution + training + implementation
Tall preheater-tower picks, confined-plant swings, and quarry setups modeled in CRANEbee before the crane sets up. Swing arc + keep-clear drawn against actual plant geometry. We distribute, train, and implement the platform on Canadian cement projects.
Distribution + advisory + training
Dyneema® synthetic rigging for high, awkward, or weight-sensitive picks — light, abrasion-resistant, non-marking where steel won't fit. Authorized Quebec distribution, with advisory on the spec.
Deterministic engineering platform
Lift + asset record on Heisen — every plant pick, sealed plans + certs + capacity, ready for the producer's maintenance dossier. Deterministic, audit-trailed, sovereign. Heisen embeds into your CMMS / ERP by API.
Plant software that holds up at the next outage.
Beyond the lift, a cement plant carries a maintenance + asset-record burden that off-the-shelf tools force-fit. We build deterministic, audit-grade software on Heisen : same engineering posture, same team kickoff to go-live, sovereign by default. A lift + asset record ready for the next outage plan instead of reconstructed from memory. Engineered in Canada, owned by you.
Heisen — our deterministic intelligence layer — is optional on any build: embed it or not, your call. Either way it plugs into a fresh custom app or your existing third-party software via API.
Lift + asset record platform
Every plant lift in one auditable record — sealed plans, rigging certs, capacity utilization — ready to drive the next outage plan instead of rebuilt from scattered files.
Outage-planning + sequencing
Deterministic sequencing of the heavy picks across a maintenance outage — surfacing the schedule risk before the plant goes down, not during.
Equipment + capacity reconciliation
Reconciles equipment, rigging, and crane capacity across the plant into one auditable record — replacing the spreadsheet chain that breaks every outage.
Scope your plant engagement.
Tell us the plant, the equipment, and the outage window. A senior lead responds within one business day with a scoped engagement and a path to first deliverable.