Winches

At Talleres Carral – FERRI we offer tailor-made mooring winches, optimised by years of experience and expertise focused on customer satisfaction. The production process enables flexibility and efficiency for our clients’ applications, entirely designed and controlled by our team and fully tested prior to delivery. Our mooring winches can be supplied for electric or hydraulic drive with virtually unlimited speed and pull. Brakes and clutches are designed for simple and safe operation. With manual, pneumatic or hydraulic actuation — a Talleres Carral – FERRI guarantee.

Our catalogue offers a wide variety of configurations and sizes suitable for handling any type of anchor. Our quality standards include steel construction, hardened sprockets for extreme working conditions, clutches, brakes and drums with very low corrosion rates. All our windlasses can be supplied with electric or hydraulic control and can be modified to meet specific applications and demanding requirements.

Specially designed drawing on years of accumulated knowledge across all types of tugs, offshore vessels and PSVs. Towing winches are offered in both hydraulic and electric versions, with drum capacities to suit client requirements. Payout systems ensuring high speed on extreme cable lengths. Designed by the most qualified engineers, Talleres Carral – FERRI ensures high performance under the toughest working conditions. All towing winches can be supplied in single or double drum configurations, in-line or cascade.

Our trawl winches are available in different configurations and can be controlled electrically or hydraulically. Fully designed for specific applications such as bottom trawling, pelagic, pair trawling, purse seining, etc. Trawl winches can be built as monoblock or split units, conventional or multi-drum, with in-line or cascade drums. Trawl winches can be complemented with all types of auxiliary winches. Drum solutions with clamp or friction, brakes and clutches with pneumatic or hydraulic control. Equipment with synchronised roll control or safe control and automation for winch synchronisation.

Our expert team delivers an extensive range of winches for new dredgers, particularly trailing suction hopper dredgers from standard sizes to mega-vessel dimensions. Draghead winches, intermediate winches, intermediate capstans, tilting winches, positioning winches and even submersible pump winches form part of the Talleres Carral – FERRI equipment supply for these increasingly sophisticated vessels. We also deliver all the ancillary elements required for winch handling.

For use on board different types of vessels, we offer a wide range of auxiliary winches. The robustness and reliability of our auxiliary winches are guaranteed, along with a long operational life under the worst conditions. Our auxiliary winches are offered with electric or hydraulic control and with different options depending on client needs: speed, stowage devices, etc., with local or remote control by cable or radio.

FERRI – Talleres Carral capstans stand out for their electric or hydraulic control, offering efficient and safe operation. In addition, they can be incorporated directly into the deck structure, facilitating integration and optimising space on the vessel. Thanks to their robust and versatile design, our capstans are the ideal choice for diverse maritime applications.

FERRI – Talleres Carral purse seine winches stand out for their electric or hydraulic control, offering reliable and robust components that guarantee safe and efficient operation. Their complete package is designed to suit any vessel or net size, with highly efficient designs. They also feature independent drums, brakes and clutches, ensuring perfect cable coiling and maximum reliability in every operation. With FERRI purse seine winches, efficiency and safety are assured in every fishing operation.

FERRI slipway winches stand out for their operational reliability, guaranteeing consistent and safe performance. They are built with highly resistant components, conferring exceptional durability even under demanding conditions. Furthermore, they require low maintenance, reducing costs and repair times. Control can be electric or hydraulic, providing precise and efficient operation across different working scenarios.

FERRI – Talleres Carral offers a solid range of winches for research vessels designed to operate in deep waters, diverse seas and extreme climates. Our high-technology winches facilitate load handling under severe maritime conditions, ensuring safety and precision in every operation. The catalogue includes umbilical winches, ROV winches, transponder winches, hydrographic winches, side-scan sonar winches, piston corer winches and any bespoke system required, delivering efficient solutions tailored to the specific needs of each maritime research project.

Cargo handling for deep-water exploration and production requires special designs grounded in experience. We are a world-class quality system supplier of winches for seismic vessels, offering robustness, reliability and ease of use for streamer, OBC and umbilical winches.

• Winch status display and parametric system configuration.
• Analogue and digital pull indicators.
• Integration with fishing net control to optimise net-opening parameters.
• Mechanical or motorised stowage system.
• Cable length, speed and force measurement.
• Constant tension.
• Active heave compensation (AHC).
• Active wave compensation (AWC).
• Multi-winch synchronisation.
• Personnel handling.
• Thruster winches.
• Winches for arctic and extremely low temperatures.
• ATEX.

We also design and produce equipment for cargo, mining, subsea operations, ROV, spoolers, booms, stowage and reels.

We supply high-technology hydraulic power units for any type of equipment. Our catalogue allows the client to choose between fixed or variable displacement with LS regulation.

Talleres Carral – FERRI offers a wide and extensive range of control options:

• Pneumatic, hydraulic or electric with frequency converter.
• Remote control from the bridge or on deck, integrated into on-board systems or independently mounted.
• PLC, joysticks, foot pedals, push-button stations or switch panels.
• Digitalised, computerised or analogue controls.