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THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF EVERYONE REMAINS OUR TOP PRIORITY.  

Like all of you, we are assessing the situation surrounding COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and its impact on our business and industry. Please be assured we are committed to maintaining our high level of service. We will do this while protecting the health of our employees, our customers and our community. Bishop Lifting wants to let you know that as of this date we have not had any significant disruption in our supply chain or our ability to service our customer’s requests, orders or shipments.

We continue to carefully reviewed the local, state and federal directives and guidance related to the COVID-19 crisis.  At this time we remain an essential business that must continue its operations. Our work is critical to ensure continuity of its service and support of essential infrastructure and essential businesses. This includes health care facilities, food and beverage processing facilities, hospitals, lab facilities, and industrial facilities. Industrial Facilities such as municipal water and wastewater treatment facilities that have critical reliance on safe, clean, reliable water.

How we are reducing the impact of COVID-19

Besides monitoring the situation, we are also taking the following active measures to reduce the impact to our customers:

• We are following all recommended strategies issued by the CDC to keep our employees safe and healthy, including allowing employees to work from home whenever possible and rotating shifts to limit person-to-person contact.
• BLP are asking our suppliers and customers to limit their visits to our facilities whenever possible as we are committed to maintaining a safe working environment for all of our employees.
• We are in constant communication with our suppliers in China and Japan to ensure we react immediately to any disruption in our supply chain.
• Bishop Lifting remains readily available to help you address any specific concerns. Our Inside Sales and Outside Sales teams, Service Departments, Accounting and Shipping Departments are all functioning without disruption.
• We will employ available technologies to provide remote assistance wherever possible.
• We’ll remain proactive and update you as necessary.  Please send us an email or call us with any concerns or questions you may have.

In these unique times, our company and our Team joins with everyone to support our community and neighbors. We appreciate your business and understanding during this global health emergency.

BLP Services team took on a huge refurbishing job on a 400te main deck crane auxiliary block on a multi-purpose, deepwater pipe lay and heavy lift vessel.  This 400te working load limit (WLL) hook block is an auxiliary block on one of the three cranes on-board designed to support heavy lift, pipelay and subsea installations. Crane blocks require frequent inspections daily, periodic inspections quarterly to annually depending on use, and a complete disassembly and thorough inspection service every 5 years.

Our service technicians started with a complete inspection of the duplex hook and attachments checking for deformation, cracks, gouges, and thread wear.  They then checked the latches on either side of the hook for proper function. The sheave wheels were inspected for misalignment, or wobble, and wear, and the proper positioning of sheave pin nuts. The rope grooves were checked for normal wear from use or for abnormal wear from misuse such as using improperly sized wire rope. This block is designed to be used with 2-3/4" diameter wire rope. All nuts, bolts, pins, and other hardware were double checked to make sure they were still installed and that they didn't show any signs of bending. The side plates, pins and axles, fittings and trunions were checked for signs of cracking and deformation. The block assembly was completely disassembled and any damaged or missing parts were repaired or replaced.  

The refurbishing process included: 

• Pre and Post Non-destructive testing (NDT)
• Blasting to remove all old paint
• All bearings and seals were replaced with new
• DNV witnessed, 110% overload pull tested (986,000 lbs.)
• Re-painted and tagged
• Full certification pack