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The Building of an Industry Leader
The Crosby Group, Inc., was conceived with a long range goal to develop into a single source for accessories used in the lifting and material handling industry with the highest levels of quality control available. Through a creative program of product development and aggressive acquisitions of market leading lines, Crosby began its growth. The current experience level of our employees has been many years in the making.
Quality - Priority One
When you read on a contract, the statement, "Crosby or Equal," you owe it to yourself and the personnel that will be using the product to determine what it means to be "Or Equal." Crosby has several "Value Added" features that must be compared when trying to find the "Or Equal" product.
"When buying Crosby, you 're buying more than product, you're buying Quality."
This phrase is more than a slogan. It is our mission. Every service that we offer, in addition to providing products of Uncompromising Quality, is performed with the integrity and sincerity you have come to expect from The Crosby Group. Each and every employee gives you the best quality available in all that they do.
Crosby Communication System
The Crosby Communication System has been developed with one purpose in mind. That purpose is to convey the positive aspects, or Value Added features of Crosby to the marketplace. Known as the Quality Continuum (or big Red Q), Crosby has identified six segments of our business that when viewed as one, differentiates us in the marketplace. These six segments are:
Manufacturing
Research & Development Complete Product Line
Customer Service Engineering
Risk Management
Although various manufacturers in our industry may be strong in a few of these areas, no one manufacturer offers you the complete package made available by The Crosby Group.
Manufacturing
Each manufacturing facility of The Crosby Group offers state of the art processes and technology.
Lebus Manufacturing (Longview, TX)
In 1956 Lebus became part of The Crosby Group. The name Lebus, with its loadbinders, snatch blocks and tail chains was a highly recognized name in the Texas oil fields. Their quality was second to none. Over the years, most all of the forging work for The Crosby Group has been moved to Lebus to make use of their larger facilities.
Today, Lebus continues to put an emphasis on producing a quality product. Like all Crosby facilities, extensive quality control systems are in effect from the time steel is unloaded, through the various production stages, to when the product is packaged and shipped. The modern factory utilizes the latest technology to prepare the high volume of dies needed for the forge shop. Machining and assembly of many of the forgings is performed at Lebus. In addition, the plants heat-treating furnaces offer all the capabilities to normalize and Quench & Temper products. Lebus currently forges the load binders, shackles, hooks, turnbuckles, links, rings and other products available throughout the Crosby line. Lebus Manufacturing is ISO 9001 Certified.
McKissick Products (Tulsa, OK)
McKissick Products, acquired in 1959, is the largest block producer in the world. Organized in 1925 as Peerless Supply Co., it began as a distributor specializing in oil field and welding supplies. The company's involvement in the block business came after 1925. At that time, laws were passed requiring safety guards on wire line entrances to oilfield blocks. It was McKissick which developed and patented a wire line guard which could be opened to allow the reeving of the block without disassembly. Since 1937 when it began focusing on making blocks, McKissick has developed into the producer of the widest range of crane blocks, snatch blocks, construction blocks, specialty blocks and sheaves in the world. In addition, McKissick also produces the Crosby Red-U-Bolt Clip, the world standard for forged wire rope clips. McKissick's certifications to ISO 9001 and API Q1 reinforce their commitment to continued quality. McKissick is Your Total Block Company.
National Swage (Jacksonville, AR)
In 1969 National Swage was acquired. National is the world leader in the manufacturing of swage fittings used in the fabrication of wire rope slings and pendant lines for cranes. National offers the patented "Cold-Tuff" process that gives mechanical properties equal to or exceeding those of stainless steel swage fittings. Crosby National also offers a line of swaging machines used to press the fittings onto wire rope. Crosby National is ISO 9001 Certified.
Crosby Canada (Brampton, Ontario)
The Crosby Canada operation was established in 1965 to serve the growing needs of the Canadian market. The plant is a full scale, modern forging facility. They manufacture many of the wire rope related fittings for their market including load binders, wire rope clips, shackles and turnbuckles. In addition, the facility serves as a full line distribution center for Canada, stocking products produced at Lebus, National and McKissick.
Crosby Europe (Putte, Belgium)
Crosby Europe was established to serve the needs of the European, Middle Eastern and South African markets. The plant is a full scale, modern forging facility. They manufacture many of the wire rope related fittings for their market including load binders, wire rope clips, shackles and turnbuckles. In addition, the facility serves as a full line distribution center for Europe, stocking products produced at Lebus, National and McKissick.
e-mail: crosb001@belgium.online.be
Complete Product Line
Time-Tested Brand names that are still market leaders
The Crosby Group has the most highly recognized brand names in the industry. Each has stood for quality for many years. Because of that ongoing "uncompromising" commitment to quality, these products have been the choice of several generations of end users.
Crosby® (Formerly Crosby-Laughlin, Founded 1836)
Shackles, hooks, turnbuckles, links, rings, eye bolts and wire rope clips
Lebus® (Founded 1941)
Load binders, snatch blocks and tail chains
McKissick® (Founded 1925)
Crane blocks, snatch blocks, construction blocks and sheaves
National (Founded 1954)
"Cold-Tuff" Swage sleeves, swage buttons, swage sockets, Swaging machines and dies
Western® (Founded 1883)
Snatch blocks, tackle blocks, marine blocks and manila rope blocks
Bullard® (Founded in 1952)
Golden Gate Hooks for use with wire rope, chain and hoists.
Engineering
Recognized Dependability
Crosby is considered the standard of the industry, both nationally and internationally. This can be drawn from the fact that most contracts involving rigging products in the U.S. and around the world read "Crosby Only" or "Crosby or Equal."
Competitors' products cannot be substituted in place of Crosby products just because they "look" alike. Crosby products are manufactured with the highest design factors in the industry. Crosby products are better able to withstand abusive field conditions because of the improved impact and fatigue characteristics designed into each item of our line.
The majority of Crosby's products are "Heat Treated". The "Heat Treatment" allows the product to deform if overloading occurs, giving warning before ultimate failure. An "As-Forged," or non-heat treated product, will break with little or no warning. This is called a "Catastrophic Failure," and is a result of brittleness or lack of toughness in the non-heat treated product as compared to "Heat Treated" product.
Crosby recognizes the importance of four essential performance properties in its products.
Working Load Limit
Ductility Fatigue
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