Gualini Lamiere International S.p.a

For Gualini Lamiere International, the lifting sector concentrates on the production of complete mechanical components and systems for earth moving machines, quay cranes, shipping cranes, machines for the building industry and for shipyards.

For more than twenty years the company has been working with important constructors operating on both national and foreign markets.

The production of these modular ferries that can be disassembled, the first two of which have been delivered to the government of Ghana, highlight the strong production and organisational capacity of Gualini Lamiere International in the realisation of complete sheet metal products, within the context of a partnership with an extremely synergic customer. In particular, the Ghanaian order  involved close collaboration with Janson Bridging which enabled the order to be completed in record time: two ferries, with a hull length of nearly 37 metres and over 12 metres in width and a load capacity of about 320 tons, produced in three months, using 520 tons of steel and involving nearly 20,000 machining hours, 8,000 of which were for the welding operations. These figures gain even more relevance when consideration is given to the fact that modifications had to be made to the project and to the construction while the work was in progress. The handling of the order highlighted the effective application of co-design and concurrent engineering techniques.