Lifting, Cargo & Consumables

The Lifting, Cargo and Consumables Division was established to source and supply lifting equipment and accessories to complement Haggie’s wire ropes. The division now represents the world’s top stables in hoisting gear, including Yale and Duff Norton, supplying winches, hoists, chain blocks, slings, hooks, shackles, chains, jacks, cranes, hand-held lever hoists, pallet trucks and stackers. It has also branched out into the manufacture of webbing slings and PVC tarpaulin products, including cargo load covers, ducting, awnings and recreational goods, which can be made up in-house at its premises at 31 Plumtree Road, Bulawayo, where the division’s state-of-the-art PVC welding unit is located Other products available from LCC include: grinding media; shade-netting for domestic, industrial and agricultural applications; mosquito nets; and a range of ropes, including polysteel, nylon and natural fibre ropes and ski-ropes.

The division stocks and can supply a range of cargo securing and load binding devices, from ropes nets, winches, turn-buckles, ratchet buckles, D-rings, wire and U-hooks and lever load binders. In the area of non-steel rope and slings, LCC sells a range of fibre rope and rope pulley blocks and, utilising polyester webbing supplied from South Africa, webbing slings in various sizes and lengths can be made to customer order, up to three tonne breaking strain, while heavier slings can be imported.