TC/American Crane Company

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Elk River, MN  |  763-497-7000

At TC/American Crane Company, we position ourselves as a trusted partner for customers who rely on safe, efficient, and durable lifting solutions. We design and manufacture electric hoists and integrated crane systems that help streamline material handling in demanding environments. By engineering our equipment with reliability at the forefront, we ensure smooth operation, precise control, and long service life across a wide range of industrial applications. We support customers from the earliest stages of planning through installation and long-term performance, allowing them to move critical loads with confidence.

We bring together advanced fabrication capabilities, modern controls expertise, and deep experience with overhead lifting to create solutions that match each facility’s workflow. Our team develops electric hoists that deliver efficient lifting power, consistent speed regulation, and dependable safety features, and we pair them with monorails, bridge cranes, and custom runway systems that integrate seamlessly into existing operations. We handle engineering, manufacturing, assembly, and commissioning under one umbrella, giving customers a single knowledgeable source for both standard and tailored systems.

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Electric Hoist

Electric Hoist

Electric hoists are material handling equipment used for lifting, lowering, and transporting materials and products. They are powered by an electric motor and have a controller to adjust the lifting parameters…

Gantry Crane

Gantry Crane

A gantry crane is an overhead crane that has an overhead beam supported by freestanding legs and moves on wheels, a track, or rail system carrying a bridge, trolley, and hoist. Workshops, warehouses, freight yards, railroads, and shipyards use gantry cranes as their lifting solution as a variation of overhead or bridge cranes…

Jib Cranes

Jib Cranes

A jib crane is a lifting device with an arm or boom that extends off the main body of the crane to provide extra reach and has a lattice design to lower the weight added to a load. The design of jib cranes allows them to work…

Hydraulic Lifts

Hydraulic Lifts

A hydraulic lift is a device for moving objects using force created by pressure on a liquid inside a cylinder that moves a piston upward. Incompressible oil is pumped into the cylinder, which forces the piston upward. When a valve opens to release the oil, the piston lowers by gravitational force…

Overhead Cranes

Overhead Cranes

An overhead crane is a type of heavy duty machinery that is capable of moving extremely heavy loads and equipment from one location to another in a safe and precise manner using the overhead space of a manufacturing facility. Due to the nature of the work they perform…

Wire Rope

Wire Rope

Wire rope is a collection of metal strands that have been twisted and wound to form the shape of a helix with the purpose of supporting and lifting heavy loads and performing tasks that are too rigorous for standard wire…

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