Overhead bridge crane sourcing in July 2026 is concentrated in a narrow band of Chinese industrial clusters — Shandong, Zhejiang and Shanghai — where audited Diamond Member manufacturers list single- and double-girder EOT (electric overhead traveling) cranes with CE certification and FOB price envelopes running from US$2,000 for light single-girder units to US$200,000 for heavy double-girder builds, with most standard 5-20 t electric hoist EOT quotes clustered in the US$4,000-12,500 per-set band on a 1-set MOQ [S5][S9].
Verified manufacturer entries on Made-in-China.com show at least seven Diamond/Audited suppliers advertising overhead bridge crane as a primary product line as of 2026-07-04, with company footprints in Shangyu (Zhejiang), Shanghai, Qingdao/Shandong and Xinxiang/Henan — a geography that mirrors the broader Chinese lifting-gear cluster map [S1][S3][S4][S7][S8]. Minimum order quantity sits at 1 set across audited listings, supply capability is published at 30 units/month on the LH double-girder programme, and CE plus SGS certification appears on the standard procurement datasheet rather than as a paid extra [S6].
Product taxonomy: what the suppliers actually list
Audited Diamond Member catalogues break overhead bridge cranes into four mechanical families, and the split matters for sourcing: single-girder EOT with electric hoist (typical 1-10 t SWL, US$2,000-12,500 per set), double-girder EOT in LH and QD variants (typical 5-50 t SWL, US$4,000-200,000 per set), European-standard double-girder EOT (typically 5-20 t SWL, US$3,000-10,000 per set) and KBK light-modular single-girder systems with radio remote control (US$4,000-12,500 per set on the 8-50 t Shandong Oulange listing) [S5][S9].
Bridge erection machinery — a sister product line — appears as a top-level category at KAICHENG alongside standard gantry crane, overhead crane, jib crane, transfer cart, straddle carrier and winch, signalling that Chinese suppliers routinely bundle road-bridge girder launchers with their industrial EOT crane output, not the other way around [S8]. A 2026 product cross-search also surfaces crane scale integration as a defined supplier category on the same platform, useful when the overhead crane is being specced for weigh-and-log jobs in steel service centres [S9].
Supplier landscape by province and audit status
Zhejiang Zhongjian Highway Bridge Equipment Co., Ltd. (Shangyu, Zhejiang) sells through its en.made-in-china.com storefront and is anchored in the ZhuKeZhen Technology Zone, DongGuan Town, Shangyu City — a zone historically associated with hoist and winch production rather than heavy gantry fabrication [S1]. Shanghai Kenvole Industries Co., Ltd. lists its sales office at 20G, 18 North-Caoxi Road, Shanghai, and runs an ltcrane showroom, suggesting a trading/assembly profile rather than a primary steel-fabrication footprint [S3].
Shandong is the heavyweight cluster: Shandong Honfu Technology Co., Ltd. is a Diamond Member Audited Supplier running a dedicated honfucrane.en.made-in-china.com storefront, with a 2026-06-29 sourcing-request landing page confirming the company still solicits RFQs in that channel [S7]. The factory index page on Made-in-China.com also resolves multiple Shandong manufacturers (single-girder, double-girder, electric crane, portal crane) under a single custom-OEM/ODM factory umbrella [S4]. KAICHENG (Henan) keeps bridge erection machinery, gantry crane and overhead crane as three top-nav items, with a published Development History and Certificate page that buyers should check for FEM/ISO mill certificates before PO [S8]. The repeated appearance of "Diamond Member Audited Supplier" badges on Shandong and Henan storefronts is the most reliable 2026 sourcing filter for first-time buyers.
Price bands, MOQ and lead-time data points
Published FOB price ranges for overhead bridge cranes on Made-in-China.com cluster into four usable bands: US$2,000-200,000 for single-girder custom EOT with hoist, US$3,000-10,000 for European-standard double-girder EOT, US$4,000-12,500 for KBK/QD double-beam and radio-remote EOT, and a 2026 LH double-girder CE/SGS line quoted on Okorder with payment in TT or LC, 1 unit MOQ and 30 unit/month supply capability [S5][S6][S9].
Lead-time data is rarely disclosed on the public storefront and must be requested in the RFQ — Shandong Oulange's 8-50 t EOT listing posts price but not delivery, KAICHENG publishes capability only through a "Send Inquiry" form, and the Shanghai trading-supplier pattern (ltcrane) hides factory lead-time behind account login [S3][S5][S8]. Buyers comparing a gantry crane versus an overhead bridge crane for the same span should also expect a separate price tier — gantry units carry their own rails and end-carriages and are not in the same FOB band, which is why most projects mix the two rather than substitute one for the other.
Standards, certification and what to verify before PO
CE marking is the default export-compliance claim on every audited Chinese EOT crane storefront sampled on 2026-07-04, with SGS and FEM 1.001 / 9.341 design-rule references appearing on heavier double-girder builds, and ISO 9001 quality-system references appearing on Diamond Member factory cards — but the "contact issuer for current status" caveat on a 2026 Shandong Oulange listing confirms buyers must re-verify the certificate number and expiry with the notified body, not trust the storefront copy [S5][S6].
For an EOT that will carry an integrated weighing device, the supplier list on the same platform shows crane scale vendors operating as a parallel category, and combining an EOT quote with a scale quote in the same RFQ shortens the integration discussion around load-cell output, summing boxes and the OIML R76 accuracy class buyers will actually need on the shop floor. Buyers evaluating whether a mobile crane or fixed EOT is the right tool for a low-headroom indoor job should treat any mobile-crane quote as a different cost structure altogether (chassis, road permitting, operator) and not compare FOB line-items directly.
Selection criteria and a quick comparison matrix
Three selection criteria cut the supplier list fast: SWL and span class, audit/certification depth, and commercial terms (MOQ, payment, supply capability). For 1-10 t indoor plant duty, single-girder EOT with CD/MD electric hoist on a 1-set MOQ is the lowest-risk path; for 5-50 t heavy steel-mill or pre-cast yard duty, double-girder LH or QD on FEM 9.341 design rules with SGS weld inspection is the baseline; for 50 t+ or for very long span (>30 m), audited factories with explicit bridge-erection-machinery DNA — the KAICHENG pattern — are a better fit than trading offices [S4][S6][S8].
Comparing the dominant supplier archetypes side-by-side on the four criteria that actually drive RFQ shortlists:
Trading/assembly office (e.g. Shanghai Kenvole pattern) — strong on showroom presence and quoting speed, weaker on factory audit, lead-time hidden behind login, FOB envelope skews to light single-girder [S3]. Specialist crane factory with Diamond Member badge (e.g. Shandong Honfu, Shandong Oulange) — strongest on audit and on price-band transparency for 5-50 t double-girder, MOQ 1 set, payment TT/LC, supply capability disclosed at the 30 unit/month tier [S5][S6][S7]. Bridge-machinery specialist (KAICHENG) — strongest on heavy/erection-class builds, narrower on standard EOT catalogue depth, certificate page published but lead-time gated [S8]. For projects that mix indoor EOT with outdoor yard lifting, the same supplier pool also covers the crawler crane and overhead conveyor categories, and a single RFQ across categories often unlocks better container loading on the ship-out leg.
Limitations, failure modes and risk flags
The published 2026 storefront data has three hard limits buyers must price in: certificate status disclaimers ("contact issuer for current status") appear on at least one Shandong listing, FOB price ranges are wide enough (US$2,000-200,000 for the same single-girder line) that two adjacent quotes may not be comparing the same SWL, hoist class or duty cycle, and supply capability is published as 30 unit/month for a heavy LH programme — meaning a 10-unit fleet order ties up a third of monthly capacity at one factory and needs to be confirmed in writing before deposit [S5][S6].
A common failure mode on Chinese EOT sourcing in 2026 is over-trading a low FOB line — the cheapest single-girder EOT quote at US$2,000 typically excludes the hoist (which is then re-quoted as a CD1/MD1 add-on), excludes festoon or bus-bar power feed, and excludes installation supervision, all of which are standard inclusions on a US$4,000-12,500 audited Diamond Member quote [S5][S9]. For buyers cross-checking an EOT line against a gantry crane bid for the same span, the safest engineering comparison is total installed cost per SWL-tonne, not headline FOB.
Actionable sourcing steps for a 2026 RFQ
A shortlist that survives the 2026 audit filter on Made-in-China.com starts with three Shandong Diamond Members (Honfu, Oulange and one factory-index entry), one Zhejiang specialist (Zhongjian, Shangyu) for hoist-integrated single-girder work, and one Henan bridge-machinery house (KAICHENG) for heavy or erection-class EOT — total five audited factories, enough to run a sealed-bid comparison without inviting the un-audited trading offices that dominate the long tail [S1][S4][S5][S7][S8].
The RFQ itself should request five line items per supplier — FOB unit price, hoist make/model, FEM/ISO design class, CE/SGS certificate numbers with expiry, and supply capability per month — plus payment terms in TT or LC and a fixed 1-set MOQ, which is the published 2026 baseline on every audited entry [S5][S6]. On the 2026-07-04 storefront data, the cleanest signal that a quote is real is the joint presence of a Diamond Member badge, a CE certificate number, and a published FOB price band on the same listing page; absence of any one of those three is a reason to drop the supplier from the bid list. The next trackable signal is the 2026 Q3 Made-in-China.com factory-index update for overhead-bridge-cranes, which has historically added 5-10 new Shandong factories per refresh and is the single best free early-warning on new audited capacity entering the cluster [S4].
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