efi special products

EFI designs and builds special lifting equipment and custom hoists to solve unique material handling challenges that standard gear can’t address. From heavy-duty solutions for power generation and ship/boat yards to precision fixtures for food-grade environments, our engineers deliver safer, faster material handling—purpose-built for your process.

Explore our core overhead crane capabilities—including single-girder, double-girder, gantry, and custom-built cranes—then see how we extend those foundations with specialty systems like wall-traveling welding workstations, multi-drum hoists, swing-out monorails, and corrosion-resistant designs. All EFI designs are fabricated in-house at our Florida manufacturing facility with delivery by ETI Transportation available. Recent examples appear in our major projects and news pages.

• Custom hoists and fixtures for unbalanced, long, or fragile loads
• Clean-room and stainless-steel solutions for aerospace, food-manufacturing, and pharmaceutical applications
• Heavy lift equipment for hydropower, utilities, and industrial plants

EFI's Scorpion Welding and Workstation System Wall-Traveling Work Station System Minimize shop floor clutter Eliminate damage to wire feed welders, torch lines, air lines, 110 v power lines etc. Move utilities out of harm's way, up onto the swinging and traveling boom Save money on maintenance Increase Productivity! Call today to learn more about how EFI's Scorpion Wall-Traveling Work Station System allows a welder to relocate 125 feet and be welding again in just 60 seconds. Tired of the downtime and cost incurred by replacing welding cables and hoses? Get a Fast Quote or call (321) 632-0990

	• Quad-Drum, Single-Motor Hoists These hoists feature four drums operating from one common motor and shaft. This arrangement ensures a large load with varying weight distribution will always be hoisted level and in a controlled manner. This particular unit is used in a boat handling facility.
	• C-Hook Load Beam with Hoisting Feature This very unique hoisting apparatus was designed and built by EFI to provide a method for a boat manufacturer to install the motors – after the boat was nearly complete. The load beam features a movable counterweight and an electric winch to lower the motor into position. Conventional boat manufacturing installs the motors early in the boat building process. In this case, the motors were incredibly expensive, with boats taking nearly a year to build, the interest cost on the motors alone exceeded the cost of purchasing the load beam – on the first boat!
	• Turbine Shaft Handling Dolly This EFI designed and built dolly is used to remove turbine or generator shafts weighing up to 100 tons or more.
	• Stainless Steel Cranes Food processing plants require clean-room conditions to keep our food supply safe. An EFI customer needed bridge cranes for one aspect of food processing. These manually operated cranes handle full capacity loads continuously, 3 shifts per day, 6 days per week. Everything on them is stainless steel – from the wheels and bearings to the fabricated main girder(s).
	• Swing-Out Monorail System This monorail system actually swings into position for one aspect of the work it performs and then swings out of the way to permit the next work step. This product adapts very well to fall arrestor systems.
	• Lock and Dam Gate Hoists These EFI designed & built hoists are used to raise and lower gates for water control structures. Because of the outdoor and waterfront location, they feature the very best in corrosion-proof features. Capacity’s range from 20 to 30 tons.
	• “Swing Stop” Hoist This EFI designed and built lower block arrangement virtually eliminates load swing and load rotation both vertically and laterally (parallel to the hoist drum). Call for details of how this truly innovational approach to rigging can make your beam handling completely controlled and safe.
Hover over image for detailed view	• Transformer-Handling Jack and Slide System This EFI built jack and slide system is used to move transformers and other large objects weighing up to 500 tons.