Electric Hoist
Electric Hoist
An electric hoist is the lifting heart of most cranes and a standalone tool in its own right, raising loads on a wire rope or chain at the push of a button. Wire-rope hoists handle higher capacities and duty cycles; electric chain hoists are compact and economical for lighter, frequent lifts on jibs, gantries and monorails. Kranes supplies and services electric hoists across the capacity range, with the controls, pendants and suspensions to match your crane or workstation.
Best for Powered lifting on any crane or workstation
Key specifications
About Electric Hoist
Key Takeaways
- ✓Electric Hoist pricing: By quote
- ✓Key features: Wire-rope & electric chain types, Full capacity range, Matched controls & suspensions
An electric hoist comes in two main types. A wire-rope hoist handles higher capacities, longer lifts and heavier duty cycles, and is the workhorse on overhead and gantry cranes; an electric chain hoist is compact, lighter and economical, ideal for jibs, monorails, workstations and frequent shorter lifts. Both raise and lower a load at the push of a button on single or dual speed, and both can run fixed, on a trolley, or as the lifting unit inside a larger crane. The hoist is the part of a crane that does the actual lifting, so it shows up everywhere lifting happens.
Electric Hoist — Configurations
It powers overhead and gantry cranes, jib cranes and monorail crane systems, assembly and machining workstations, and stands alone over a single bench or pit. Because an electric hoist replaces manual or engine-driven lifting, it shows up wherever an engine hoist for rent once would have — but with repeatable, controlled, powered movement instead of a one-off mechanical pull. Specifying an electric hoist comes down to capacity, lift height, duty class and how it mounts — fixed, trolley-mounted or built into a crane. From there Kranes matches the hoist type, the speed, the controls and the suspension to your crane or workstation, and confirms the power supply on site.
Applications
Buy when the lift is part of daily production; we also supply hoists as replacements that modernise an older crane, bringing better control and safety to a structure that is otherwise sound. A hoist is the most worked component on a crane, so service and parts decide how long it lasts. Kranes services electric hoists and stocks brakes, contactors, chains and wire rope, hooks, limit switches, pendants and remotes for the units it supplies, including older models. Tell us the capacity, the lift height and the duty class, and we return a quote with the right electric hoist and the parts and service to keep it running.
At a glance
| Specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Product | Electric Hoist |
| Price range | By quote |
| Best for | Powered lifting on any crane or workstation |
| Makes covered | All major makes |
| Operation | Operated or bare |
| Warranty | By quote |
| Compliance | CSA B167 / ASME B30 |
| Coverage | Canada-wide |
Why choose Electric Hoist?
What this equipment is built to do.
Electric Hoist across Canada
We design, supply, and install electric hoist in major cities across all 10 provinces and 3 territories.
Questions about Electric Hoist
What is the difference between a gantry crane and an overhead crane?
Both run a hoist along a bridge, but the support is different. An overhead (bridge) crane carries its bridge on runway beams fixed to the building structure, so it clears the floor entirely and reaches the highest hook positions. A gantry crane carries the same bridge on freestanding legs that run on floor rails or castors, so it needs no building steel and can work outdoors, in yards or anywhere a runway can't be mounted overhead. Overhead cranes suit permanent in-bay production; gantries suit flexible, portable or outdoor lifting. Kranes supplies, installs and services both.
What are the 5 P's of lifting?
The 5 P's are a planning maxim — Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance — and in lifting they stand for the discipline of working out the load weight, the crane and rigging, the ground and access, the people and their certification, and the hazards before anything is hoisted. A good lift is decided on paper first. Kranes applies the same principle to every quote: we confirm the load, the radius, the site conditions and the certified crew up front, so the crane that arrives is the right one and the lift goes as planned.
Does Kranes sell, rent and service cranes — or just one?
All of it. Kranes is the nationwide crane supplier across four lines from a single request: sales (buy a crane outright), rental (operated or bare, by the day, week or project), service (maintenance, repair, inspection and certification for any make), and parts (wear and electrical components, including for obsolete units). You don't get routed to a third party — you tell us the job, we send the quote and we fulfill it directly. That single point of contact is the whole idea: one supplier behind every lift, coast to coast.
