JDN Monocrane - Australia’s Premier Crane and Hoist Manufacturer

JDN Monocrane is Australia’s premier crane and hoist manufacturer. Founded in 1979, today the company designs, manufactures, installs and services a comprehensive range of world class hoists, cranes and componentry. JDN Monocrane is unique in the Australian market in that they design and manufacture all their own hoists, end carriages and components. This, combined with their extensive in-house design capabilities, means they can offer standard solutions to 200 tones capacity as well as specialised, customer-specific cranes and lifting equipment.

Instrumental to JDN Monocrane’s success has been their constant focus on research and development. “Two core technologies are unique to our cranes: Hyper speed and i-Glide,” said Paul Kelly, JDN Monocrane’s General Manager. “Hyper speed is on the hoisting side of things and allows the unloaded hook to be raised or lowered at twice its normal speed. In the crane business, you want to get the hook down to a job as quickly as possible and when you’re finished you want it out of the way equally quickly. Hyper speed does this automatically, by sensing the load on the hook, massively increasing productivity.”

“i-Glide is our automatic anti hook-sway technology. With a standard crane, when you hook up a load and send it off, the crane takes off but the load stays still. Once it gets going you get a swinging motion with the load, which is quite dangerous. Fortunately, i-Glide controls the acceleration and deceleration of the crane and you get virtually no hook-sway. This not only increases safety, it significantly increases productivity.” Paul continued. 

“We’ve also recently launched a product called Planet. Put simply, it’s a regenerative braking system that feeds electricity back into the grid whenever a load is being lowered. This helps offset the cost of electricity used during the lift and is unique to our cranes.” Read More…