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LASHING CHAIN & FITTINGS
LASHING CHAIN

& FITTINGS

Applications

Green Pin loadbinders and fittings are used for easy
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and efficient tightening of chain in lashing applications.

Range

Green Pin offers three types of loadbinders for use with steel chain: two ratchet types and a lever type.
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Loadbinders are available for various steel chain sizes, ranging from 8 up to 16 mm, and for fibre chain.
The ratchet types can be supplied with two hooks or two eyes as end fittings. A Green Pin Tycan ratchet
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loadbinder (grade 10) and fittings are also available, for use with Green Pin Tycan Lashing Chain. The
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take-up length of the Green Pin Tycan ratchet loadbinder has been designed specifically for the use with
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Green Pin Tycan Chain. The Green Pin Tycan ratchet loadbinder is available with a lashing capacity of 16 t.
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Design
Green Pin loadbinders are designed with an ergonomic, easy-to-use handle for simple, single-hand use, and
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are manufactured from drop forged or cast steel. One ratchet type is equipped with standard chain eye grab
hooks, the other type has an improved version of these hooks to reduce chain wear substantially. It is also fitted
with a pin to keep the chain in place. The latter type is designed to meet requirements of standard EN 12195-3.
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The takeup-length of the Green Pin Tycan ratchet loadbinder has been designed specifically for the use with
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Green Pin Tycan Chain.
Each loadbinder is generally marked with:
• Lashing Capacity - e.g. 10 t
• minimum breaking load - e.g. 21.2 t
• manufacturer’s symbol - e.g. GP
• chain diameter in mm and inches - e.g. 13 mm and /2”
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• traceability code - e.g. A1
• warning - not for lifting or hoisting applications
As prescribed by the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC our hooks, master links and connecting links are
supplied with a CE Declaration of Incorporation (CE IIB), stating the products are in compliance with the
requirements of the machinery directive. These products do not have a CE marking, since CE markings
are only to be provided for machines, whereas hooks, master links and connecting links are components
of machines, and not machines themselves. Providing components with a CE marking is an incorrect
interpretation of the Machinery Directive.

7 Machinery definition according to Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC – Article 2 – definitions (a) and
Machinery Regulation 2023/1230/EU:

“An assembly of linked parts or components, at least one of which moves and which are joined together,
intended for lifting loads and whose only power source is directly applied human effort.”

“The maximum working load shall be prominently marked on the lifting machinery. The marking shall be
legible, indelible and in an un-coded form. Where the maximum working load depends on the configuration
of the lifting machinery, each operating position shall be provided with a load plate indicating, preferably in
diagrammatic form or by means of tables, the working load permitted for each configuration.”

This definition means that a sling is a Machine and that the hooks, master links and connecting links are
not considered as a machine themselves, but as components of a machine. The CE and the WLL markings
in consequence, are mandatory only on the assembled sling tag as the sling is the machine according
to MD 2006/42/EC. This rule is still valid with the new Machine Regulation 2023/1230 which will replace
288 the MD cited previously within early 2027.