Crane Service
Your Alberta and Saskatchewan Overhead Crane Service Experts
After over fifty years providing fast and reliable overhead crane service across the Canadian prairies, Kristian Electric is proud to be a leading provider for crane and hoist maintenance.
We’ve built our company legacy on providing exceptional solutions and safe, transparent, and cost-effective overhead crane services for our customers. With over 150 years of combined experience across our locations in Calgary, Edmonton and Saskatoon, you can trust the Kristian team to ensure the safety and reliability of your overhead lifting equipment, especially at times when you need it most.
Complete Overhead Crane
Service & Maintenance
From emergency stops to new crane installations
Whether you utilize a single crane in your shop or rely on multiple bridge cranes for your production facility, we understand that the safe and reliable operation of your lifting equipment is essential.
After 50+ years servicing overhead lifting equipment, we believe that keeping your cranes running safely starts with taking good care of your cranes.
Kristian Electric offers a variety of overhead crane services to ensure that your cranes, hoists, and lifting equipment are operating safely with minimal downtime. From expert installation to periodic inspections, to preventative, corrective and emergency maintenance – our Kristian team has the experience and knowledge to take care of your cranes at every stage of your equipment lifecycle.
Overhead Crane Service Offerings
Crane Installation & Commissioning
Crane and Hoist Inspections
Overhead Crane Maintenance
Overhead Crane and Hoist Repair
Overhead Crane Load Testing
Crane Manufacturing
24-Hour Emergency Crane Service
Lifting Equipment We Service
- Cranes
- Overhead bridge cranes
- Gantry cranes
- Jib cranes
- Monorail cranes
- Workstation cranes
- Davit cranes
- Vacuum Lifters
- Electric vacuum lifters
- Air-powered vacuum lifters
- Ergonomic vacuum hoist systems
- Hoists, Trolleys & Winches
- Electric chain hoists
- Wire rope hoists
- Manual chain hoists (chain falls, come alongs, ratchet pullers, lever blocks)
- Air/pneumatic chain hoists
- Electric balancer chain hoists
- Manual push/pull trolleys
- Motorized trolleys
- Electric, air and hydraulic winches
- Overhead Crane Components
- Bridge girders
- Crane runways and rails
- Bridge motors/drives
- Bridge wheel assemblies
- End trucks
- Electrification systems – conductor bars, festooning and control panels
- Controls – pendant controls and remote control systems
Built on the Strength of our Team
Qualified Crane Technicians
All our journeymen electrician and millwright crane service technicians meet or exceed the documented hours required by CSA B167-96/16 and Alberta/Saskatchewan Occupational Health and Safety
Factory-Trained Experts
Our crane service technicians are trained and certified to install, service, repair and inspect major crane and hoist brands
Over 150 Years of Experience
Company-wide collaboration allows us to utilize hard-earned combined knowledge for even the most complex crane service issues
Authorized Service and
Warranty Depot
50+ years of building relationships.
Kristian Electric has been servicing Canada’s overhead cranes, hoists, and lifting equipment since 1967.
We’ve repaired lifting equipment from all over the century and all over the world. After 59 years in business, we have built relationships with nearly all crane and hoist manufacturers and developed a parts and knowledge distribution network that is hard to beat.
As the authorized service and warranty depot for many of the material handling industry’s leading manufacturers, we can provide experienced service for brands including Demag, R&M, Columbus McKinnon, Coffing Hoists, Vulcan Hoist, Mizia Hoist, and more.
You Got It, We’ll Fix It
Kristian Electric offers maintenance services for all makes, models and components of overhead cranes, hoists and lifting equipment, including:
Inspection Dissection
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Building A Crane One Girder At A Time
In the spring of 2014, a producer of highly complex HVAC units at their state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in the South Foothills Industrial Park of Calgary, began looking at doubling the size of their existing facility....
Gorbel Gantry Cranes
Gantry cranes usually bring to mind the monstrous structures found in seaports and ship yards, used to move, load and/or construct massive items and equipment. With the ability to lift over 20,000 tons, some of these colossal...