Bridge-type cane
unloader for a
UP sugar mill.
A complete bridge-type cane unloading system with hydraulic grab and integrated hydraulic trolley — sized to the mill's crushing capacity, and installed and commissioned inside the off-season window before crushing began.
A fixed deadline
that arrives on
a truck full of cane.
A sugar mill in Uttar Pradesh needed a new cane unloading system in its yard. The commercial logic of a sugar mill is unforgiving: cane arrives by the truckload during the crushing season, and every hour a loaded truck waits in the yard is cane losing recoverable sugar and a queue backing up at the gate.
The unloader therefore had to be sized against the mill's crushing capacity — the yard system has to feed the cane carrier at least as fast as the mill consumes it, hour after hour, for the full season. An unloader that keeps up on average but falls behind at peak arrival times is a bottleneck with a certificate.
The schedule was equally fixed. A cane yard cannot be a construction site during crushing, so the entire installation — civil interfaces, structural erection, hydraulics, commissioning and operator handover — had to fit inside the off-season shutdown, finished before the first truck of the new season arrived.
Project
specification.
| Location | Sugar mill, Uttar Pradesh |
|---|---|
| Equipment | Bridge-type cane unloading system |
| Grab | Hydraulic cane unloading grab |
| Trolley | Integrated hydraulic trolley on the bridge |
| Sizing Basis | Matched to the mill's crushing capacity |
| Duty Rating | Continuous duty for the full crushing season |
| Installation Window | Off-season shutdown, completed before crushing began |
| Scope | Design, manufacture, erection, commissioning and operator handover |
Sized to the mill,
scheduled to
the season.
- Bridge-type configuration. A bridge spanning the cane yard puts the grab over any truck position and feeds the cane carrier directly, without the repositioning cycles that slow other unloading arrangements when the yard is full.
- Unloading rate derived from crushing rate. The grab capacity and cycle time were worked back from the mill's crushing capacity with allowance for peak truck arrivals — so the yard clears trucks faster than the mill draws cane, not just as fast.
- Integrated hydraulic trolley. The grab travels on a hydraulic trolley integrated into the bridge, placing lift and traverse on one coordinated hydraulic system and keeping the drive arrangement simple to maintain with mill workshop skills.
- Continuous-duty rating for the whole season. Every element — structure, hydraulics, wear parts — was rated for continuous operation across the full crushing season, because a sugar mill cannot pause mid-season for an unloader rebuild.
- Fabrication front-loaded at Kundli. The system was fabricated and pre-fitted at our works so that the on-site phase was erection and commissioning only — the discipline that let the fixed off-season window hold.
Ready before
the first truck
of the season.
The unloading system was erected, commissioned and handed over within the off-season window, and was operational when crushing began. The mill started its season with the new system feeding the cane carrier from day one.
The system carries a continuous-duty rating for the full crushing season, with wear-part maintenance planned around the off-season rather than mid-campaign stoppages.
The system, in the yard.
Have a similar
duty cycle at
your mill?
Tell us your crushing capacity, yard layout and off-season dates. We will size the unloading system to your mill and schedule the installation around your season — not ours.