Located in the quiet village of Moonbi, New South Wales, Andromeda Industries is doing anything but quiet work. It is renowned throughout the lifting and rigging industry for its unique products servicing a range of sectors.
Andromeda Industries is best known for its Superflex steel cable, invented by Raymond McLaren in the 1970’s to service specific councils throughout Australia. By 1975 Raymond had created and commissioned the first of his orbital square plaiting machines which mechanically plaits the cables into their completed form, creating what we know today as Superflex.
As the name suggests, Superflex cable is a steel cable that his highly flexible, without losing its durability and toughness. The interplaiting of the steel cords creates a very tough and set resistant cable which consists of more wires than are available in a cable laid wire rope. Superflex Cable incorporates 912 individual wires that are woven into the completed wire rope, in comparison, a standard 6×36 wire rope which is commonly used in the construction of wire rope slings has only have 216 individual wires.
Andromeda Industries produces Superflex cables ranging in size from 10mm right through to its extra-large range of cables coming in at a whopping 96mm. This covers an immense range of applications, with the smallest sling coming in with a WLL of one tonne, through to its unique Double Ended strop with a massive WLL of 168t in straight lift or 330t cradled.
Andromeda’s Twentyfour-0 Superflex Doubled ended strops were used on a project lifting concrete bridge beams weighing 200t. Coming in at an impressive 22m long, the stops were so large they had to be transported by a full semi-trailer.
Andromeda makes all of its slings to order and achieves short lead times as its Superflex cables are kept on hand, allowing the team to quickly respond to the needs of the industry.
Andromeda is an active member of the lifting industry and all of the gear is designed and built to the highest engineered standards. Every sling is proof loaded in either the vertical 40 tonne or the 300 tonne horizontal test machines. Andromeda’s test procedures are NATA accredited and conform to Australian Standards.
Andromeda continues to develop products that lead the way in the lifting and rigging sector. The latest development is the Dean-0 sling that is specifically designed to be made short and to provide a single lifting point under Ramshorn hooks on larger cranes.
The Dean-0 slings are offered several different capacities ranging from a WLL of 11.0t through to WLL of 165t. Suitable Master Links can also be fitted and removed from these slings as required.
Andromeda has seen continual demand for the flat woven steel slings for nearly 50 years. These are regularly used for lifting applications where the objects need reduced pressure at the lifting point.
Flat Woven steel slings come in a variety of sizes ranging from 50mm nominal width through to 250mm nominal width and also a range of different applications such as Cradle Lift slings and Choker Lift slings and a WLL ranging from 1t through to 25t in single fall.
There are a variety of termination methods used throughout the Flat Woven Sling range, from steel u-terminations, soft eyes with aluminium ferrules, trapezoidal and semi-trapezoidal links and low deformation steel ferrules. These allow for use within all lifting applications that require a flat and highly flexible sling.
Also available for the Flat Woven slings is a protective covering which not only allows for extra protection for the wires of the slings but protects the loads from being marked.
For all lifting and rigging solutions using Superflex Cables and Steel Flat Woven Slings contact Andromeda Industries’ helpful sales team on 02 6760 3773 or visit the website.
www.andromedaindustries.com.au.