Load monitoring for lifting, mooring, and subsea operations

Euroload designs and manufactures load and torque monitoring equipment: load cells, load pins, load links and shackles, and running line monitors. A load pin replaces an existing bearing pin in the load path, so a sheave, fairlead, winch, or crane reports the actual force it is carrying rather than the force the lift plan assumed. The company is based in Aberdeen and builds bespoke systems to order, with design to delivery of a complete system typically inside five to six weeks.

Features and benefits

The range covers the severe end of the market. Load pins are rated for subsea use to 300 bar, can be dual gauged for redundancy, and are supplied with certified cables and moulded subsea junctions that replace separate junction boxes. Hazardous area variants cover ATEX and IECEx requirements, including Zone 1 intrinsically safe load pins and EXD display panels, and outputs run from millivolt and 4-20mA through to wireless telemetry. Euroload also runs rental, repair, and calibration services across most manufacturers' equipment.

The commercial case

Most lifting and mooring decisions rest on an assumed load. Measuring the real load closes the gap between the assumption and the truth, which is the difference between a verified lift and an overload found after the event. Because a load pin replaces a pin that already exists, the measurement is added without changing the equipment or losing headroom.

Why it is in the Hub

Pulse represents Euroload in Australia because load monitoring sits under so much of the work WA's energy and resources sector already does: crane and winch operations, mooring systems, decommissioning lifts, and subsea construction. The hazardous area variants matter locally because IECEx is the scheme accepted on Australian classified sites, and the bespoke five-to-six-week build cycle suits campaign work where the monitoring requirement only becomes clear at planning.