LiftEx 2023, the global showcase for the lifting industry, takes place at the Exhibition Centre, Liverpool on 21-22 November 2023. Celebrating its 18th year in 2023, the event addresses many differen[...]
Daniel Searle toured the mountains of northern Spain to speak to members of the crane industry, and found a local industry with a positive outlook. The first stop on the tour was crane manufacturer GH[...]
Terex has announced that it has acquired enough shares of Demag Cranes AG to complete its bid for the company. With 67% of shares of the industrial and port crane manufacturer, the US-owned crane buil[...]
Saudi Cranes previously had a license agreement with Konecranes which required Saudi Cranes to expand its manufacturing plant to an additional 2,600 sq m. to add manufacturing equipment such as CNC pl[...]
Sally Spencer reports on four recent applications of cranes in the shipbuilding sector. Ace World Companies has supplied gantry cranes to a shipyard building ferries fit for Alaskan waters. With many [...]
When Metreel and O’Brien formed the partnership in March, initial plans were to introduce the Met-Track system in Canada from British Columbia to Newfoundland, where O’Brien says there are very fe[...]
Cargotec has announced it is planning a joint venture with one of its Chinese suppliers, Jiangsu Rainbow Heavy Industries (RHI), to further establish its products in China’s lifting market. Under th[...]
The need for more data is one of the factors driving developments in crane and hoist controls. Keren Fallwell reports As customers demand more from their crane controls, manufacturers are responding w[...]
Cargotec’s interim results for the first half of 2011 show the firm doubled its operating profits for the period backed by a strong sales performance, despite a smaller order book. Q2 sales increase[...]
The two companies have worked together for the past two-and-a-half years to produce the first hybrid Rubber Tyred Gantry (RTG) crane for the rail industry, the MJ 1200R EH. EcoPower’s first MJ 1200R[...]