Sugar mill equipment
built to survive the
crushing season.
Fluidline is a sugar mill equipment manufacturer serving mills across Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Haryana and the wider cane belt — cane unloaders, unloading grabs, hydraulic trolleys and mill-house EOT cranes, all engineered for the wet, abrasive, round-the-clock duty of cane crushing.
Four months of
revenue decided by
machines that cannot stop.
A sugar mill earns its year in one crushing season. Once cane starts arriving, the yard equipment runs 24×7 for the duration — and every hour an unloader stands idle, cane queues up at the gate and recovery drops.
The duty is unusually hostile. Cane juice is sticky and mildly corrosive. Bagasse fibre and yard dust work into every pivot and seal. Loads are irregular — bundled cane, loose cane, trolleys and trucks of different sizes — and the operation cannot pause for maintenance until the season closes. Equipment specified from a generic catalogue rarely lasts its second season in this environment.
We design for it specifically: sealed and hard-chromed cylinders, IP55-rated electricals, greasable oversized pivots, abrasion-resistant wear surfaces, and structures sized to your actual crushing rate rather than a nominal figure. Then we schedule manufacture around your season calendar, because equipment that arrives after cane does is worthless that year.
The cane-handling line,
built under one roof.
Hydraulic
Cane Unloaders
Bridge-type and gantry cane unloaders sized to your crushing capacity and yard span, moving cane from truck and trolley to the feeder table at the rate the mill demands.
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Cane Unloading
Grabs
Multi-tine hydraulic grabs for whole and loose cane, with hard-chromed cylinders and wear-plated tines. Also configured for bagasse handling at the boiler house.
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Hydraulic
Trolleys
Yard trolleys for controlled cane movement between the weighbridge, stacking area and feeder table, built to match your rail gauge and tipping arrangement.
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Mill-House
EOT Cranes
Single and double girder EOT cranes for the mill house and workshop — roller and shaft changes, gearbox lifts and off-season overhauls, load tested to 125% before dispatch.
View EOT Cranes →A cane unloader
commissioned before
the first trolley arrived.
A sugar mill in western Uttar Pradesh approached us in the off-season: their ageing cane unloader could no longer keep pace with the mill's crushing rate, and trucks were backing up at the yard gate through the previous season. We sized a bridge-type hydraulic cane unloader to the mill's rated crushing capacity, matched the bridge span to the existing yard layout to avoid new civil work, and specified sealed wet-duty hydraulics throughout.
Fabrication, machining and assembly were completed at our Kundli works, the unit was trial-assembled and tested before dispatch, and our erection team commissioned it at site with weeks in hand before cane arrived. It has since run full seasons without an unloading bottleneck — which is the only statistic a cane yard cares about.
Every station from
the gate to the mill house.
Beyond the cane yard, our hydraulic cylinders, power packs and machined components serve the mill house and process sections — and our EOT cranes handle the heavy lifts of the off-season overhaul. If it lifts, tips, grabs or actuates anywhere in a sugar mill, it is inside our scope.
Technical questions
from sugar mill engineers.
How do you size a cane unloader to my mill's crushing capacity?
We work backwards from your rated TCD (tonnes of cane per day). The crushing rate sets the cane that must move from yard to carrier per hour, and from that we derive the grab capacity, the number of cycles per hour, the bridge span across your yard, and the hoisting speeds. A 2,500 TCD mill and a 5,000 TCD mill need very different unloader configurations even if the yard looks similar. Share your TCD, yard layout and truck or trolley sizes and we will produce a sizing calculation with the quote.
What lead time should I plan for equipment to be running before the crushing season?
For a bridge-type cane unloader, plan for 10 to 14 weeks from confirmed order to dispatch, plus erection and commissioning time at site. Grabs and hydraulic trolleys are shorter. The safe approach is to place orders soon after the previous season closes, so that erection happens in the off-season and commissioning trials are complete well before cane arrives. We schedule sugar-sector orders around season dates as a matter of course.
How is the equipment protected against the wet, sticky duty of a sugar mill?
Cane juice is mildly acidic and gets everywhere, so protection is designed in rather than added later. Cylinders run hard-chrome-plated rods with wiper seals rated for contaminated environments, hose routing keeps connections clear of spill zones, electrical equipment is specified at IP55 or better, and structures get a marine-grade epoxy paint system. Pivot pins and bushes are greasable and sized for the abrasive bagasse-laden atmosphere of the mill house.
Can you retrofit a new unloader or grab into our existing cane yard?
Yes. Most of our sugar-sector work is at operating mills, not greenfield sites. We survey the existing yard, rail gantry or crane structure and design around it — matching span, wheel gauge, rail sizes and power supply so civil work is kept to a minimum. Existing grabs and trolleys from other makers can usually be replaced with our units on the same suspension without modifying the crane.
Do you provide maintenance support during the crushing season?
Yes. We offer annual maintenance contracts structured around the season: preventive overhaul and seal replacement in the off-season, a pre-season inspection and trial, and priority breakdown response while crushing is on. We also recommend a season spares kit — seals, hoses, filter elements and wear parts — held at the mill so that a night breakdown does not wait for a courier.
Do you supply spares for cane unloaders and grabs from other manufacturers?
In most cases, yes. Cylinders, power packs, hoses and machined parts for other makes of cane unloading equipment can be reverse-engineered and manufactured at our Kundli works, and we regularly repair and re-seal third-party grabs. Send us the unit or the drawings and we will confirm feasibility and price.
Planning equipment
for the next season?
Send us your crushing capacity, yard layout and season dates. Our engineering team will revert with a sized configuration and a delivery schedule that beats the cane to the gate.