JV Crane & Engineering is a licensed and insured private engineering services and crane construction company located in Hobart, IN.
Quick Facts
Established: 1978
Location: 425 S. Shelby Street, P O Box 543, Hobart, IN 46342
Manufacturing Area: 30,000 sq. ft.
Customers: Fortune 500, Global, Regional and Local across various sectors
Scope Of Work
Design, fabrication, service, repair, renovation and installation of material handling systems. Primary areas of concentration: cranes, hoists, monorails, crane runways, runway structures, crane rail, conductor systems, radio controls, car pullers, winches, locomotive transfer tables, locomotive turn tables, rail car jacks, mass transit car repair hoists/lifts, locomotive sanding equipment, locomotive wheel truing machines, locomotive drop tables.
Organizational Breakdown
Engineering Division
- Electrical
- Mechanical
- Structural
Construction Division
The Construction Division maintains the following crafts:
- Iron Workers
- Millwrights
- Electricians
- Operating Engineers
Service, Inspection & Repair Division
- 24 hour Emergency Service
- Emergency machine shop facility with large supply of new and used parts
Partial Customer List (broken down by industry/application):
Steel Producing/Fabricating/Processing:
- ArcelorMittal USA
- Allied Tube & Conduit
- Central Coil Processing
- Metal Matic
- Meridian Rail Corporation
- U.S. Steel
Transportation:
- BNSF Railway Company
- Chicago Transit Authority
- CN Railroad
- METRA
- Union Pacific Railroad
Auto:
- Ford Motor Company
- General Motors
Metal Warehouse:
- Central Steel & Wire
- Lexington Steel
Architectural/Engineering:
- Abatangelo – Hason Ltd.
- Austin Company
- Alvord, Burdick & Howson
- Baker Engineering
- Bowen Engineering
Utilities:
- Central Illinois Light Company
- Chicago Water Department
- Dominion State Line Energy
- Exelon Corporation
- Florida Power & Light
- Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
- Midwest Generation
- Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO)
- Public Service of Indiana
Authorized Distributor for the following products
- Louden – Cranes, Stackers & Monorail Systems
- Vac-U-Lift – Lifters & Transfer System
- Acco Crane & Hoist
- Ace Engineering Hoists
- Yale Hoists & Jib Cranes
- Contrx Jib Cranes
- Wright Hoists
- Saturn Hoists
- R&M Hoists
- Coffing Hoists
- Mansaver Grabs
- Duct-O-Bar Conductor Systems
- Insul-8 Conductor Systems
- Robinson Radio Control
- Remtron Radio Control
- Cattron Radio Control
- Electromotive Variable Frequency Control
- Power Electronics Variable Frequency Control
- Telemotive Radio Control
- Shaw-Box Hoists
- EMH – Hoists and Cranes
- Harrington – Hoists and Cranes
- Vectran Corporation
- Macton