19 HYDRO, GERMANY The 17-m-wide automatic crane in the alumini- um factory of Hydro in Bellenberg handles the complete material logistics, from the feeding the transport skips and charging the aging furnaces to delivering the pressed aluminium profiles to the cooling zones and the destacking process. The crane technology runs 24/7 with an extremely short cycle times of 2 min. 1 Crane technology at Hydro runs 24/7, maintaining extremely short cycles of 2 min 1 SKIP WEIGHT 2 t REFERENCE PROJECT