Cranes in Motion
Roen Salvage
Kuzay, a licensed professional engineer, said that Roen chose the Millennium 4100 because it is reliable, easy to operate and maintain and fit the company’ s budget.
“ The Lampson Millennium is much simpler than either an old friction crane or a new hydraulic model, and it’ s priced right,” he said.
“ Also, as a family-owned company, Roen is proud to do business with another family-owned company in Lampson,” Kuzay added.
Though Roen bought 180 feet of boom for the Millennium 4100, Kuzay says he expects it to work most often with 120 feet.“ For all of our cranes, that boom length is the most typical, and we never use jibs,” he said.
Roen is also using the Millennium 4100’ s full, Series-2 counterweight for maximum stability, which brings the crane’ s operating weight to about 460,000 pounds.
Thanks to the Millennium 4100’ s versatility, Roen plans to keep it busy doing a variety of work.
“ We expect to mainly use it to drive pile and construct breakwaters,” said Kuzay.“ It will also do our heavy lifts, like the recent relocation of the Algoma lighthouse, a 100,000-pound pick on 140 feet of boom.”
Long History, Strong Reputation
Roen Salvage Company is a heavy civil marine contractor that is headquartered in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
Founded in 1949 by Charles W. Asher and Hilda Roen Asher with help from Hilda’ s father, Captain John Roen, Roen Salvage is now led by the family’ s third generation in the business, CEO John Roen Asher.
During more than 75 years of serving customers throughout the Great Lakes and midwestern inland waterways, including the Mississippi River, Roen has built a strong reputation for integrity and high-quality professional work.
The company specializes in marine construction, dredging and environmental remediation.
Its wide-ranging services include driving pile; dredging; building breakwaters, navigation lights, submarine pipelines and steel sheet-pile walls; repairing and rehabilitating steel sheet-pile dock walls; doing underwater blasting and marine demolition; running submarine power cables; performing hydrographic surveys and doing many other kinds of marine work.
Roen’ s typical clients include the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, private commercial dock owners, the U. S. Coast Guard and state and municipal governments.
The company has about 40 full-time employees, many of whom have been with Roen from 10 to 30 years.
Nearly all of those workers are skilled in multiple construction trades that range from welding and rigging, to framing, concrete work, installing mechanical gear
Roen’ s Manitowoc 3950W was rigged with 160 feet of boom and hanging leads to drive pile for a project in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
and operating heavy equipment.“ The same crew can do a whole project from start to finish,” said Kuzay.
He noted that the company has about a dozen licensed crane operators, who work as part of the crew when they are not in the seat pulling levers.“ We don’ t always need all of them operating at once, but each operator is multi-talented and performs other work when they aren’ t in the crane,” he said.
Kuzay added,“ We are always looking for highly talented employees who are interested in learning multiple skills. We offer paid training and upkeep of certifications.”
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