Special Wire Ropes
Special applications require a special wire rope.
Unilift is Australia’s leading steel wire rope company, specialising in ropes for a vast range of applications. Unilift offer the support of an experienced sales and technical team with extensive practical knowledge & experience.
Steel wire ropes are regarded as critical components of any lifting appliance and must be capable of meeting the varied demands that are placed upon them, whether breaking force, bending strength, abrasion or rotation resistance.
In order to meet these demands, the team at Unilift can assist in the recommendation of a suitable rope to meet your needs, and of course above-average service life. Unilift stocks and distributes the highest quality steel wire ropes available in the market for special purpose applications including:
- CRANES - tower cranes, Franna cranes, crawler cranes, mobile harbour cranes, port cranes, container handling cranes, offshore cranes, overhead gantrys & hoists and winches
- OPEN CUT MINING - draglines, electric rope shovels and conveyor haulage
- UNDERGROUND MINING - shaft mining, drift haulage and winches
- DRILLING - drill & blast rigs, exploration rigs, foundation & piling and offshore & land based oil & gas rigs
- MARINE - towing, mooring, dredging and punts
- STRUCTURAL - suspension bridges, cable stayed bridges, guying, telecommunications and masts.
- CABLE WAYS - skiift, chairlift, gondola, cablecar and aerial material transportation
DIEPA Special Wires Ropes
Unilift are now the exclusive Australian supplier for DIEPA speciality wire ropes. DIEPA is well known in the industry for providing substantially longer service life, and being the go-to rope when other ropes are not performing as required. Manufactured in Germany to the highest standards of quality, DIEPA ropes are characterised by:
- high breaking force
- high bending fatigue resistance
- excellent flexibility and
- highest stability against lateral pressure
The DIEPA range of ropes include a variety of rope constructions including:
- Rotation resistant, semi-resistant or non-rotation resistant
- compacted or non-compacted
- internal plastic sheathing
The DIEPA Special Wire Ropes range are renowned for high quality and performance. The main working advantages of using Diepa Ropes include:
- Longer service life
- Trouble-shooting when other ropes do not perform
Applications
The DIEPA Special Wire Ropes range are top of their field in a range of specialised application including:
- Open Cut Mining
- Drag Lines
- Electric Rope Shovels
- Pendants
- Underground Mining – Shaft Haulage
- Oil & Gas
- Cranes
- Drilling
