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Lifting association welcomes extension of CE mark recognition for businesses

The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (Leea) – a lifting industry representative body – has welcomed the UK government Department for Business and Trade (DBT) announcement, on the 2 August 2[...]

Innovate to expand

Many of Europe’s major hoist manufacturers attended the CeMat and Messe Hannover show in Germany in late April. Daniel Searle attended the exhibition. The story coming from the Western markets of Eu[...]

Westinghouse’s industrial crane donation to aid nuclear crane design

This December, Westinghouse Electric Company’s subsidiary PaR Nuclear donated two 30t industrial cranes and training equipment to train engineering students at the University of North Carolina’s E[...]

CRC/ICHC 2012 to be held in New Orleans

New Orleans has been announced as the setting for this year’s two-day jointly held Crane & Rigging Conference/Industrial Crane & Hoist Conference (CRC/ICHC), scheduled to start on 23 May. Th[...]

Manufacturers of cranes are designing their technologies to provide greater levels of safety for operators

Manufacturers of cranes for the metals distribution sector are designing their technologies to provide greater levels of safety for operators, while offering improved data analysis about the type of l[...]

Sky power flagship complex using automated Demag

Based in Osterley, in west London, the 23,000m2 development will be powered using a Combined Cooling Heating and Power (CCHP) plant capable of generating 1MW of electricity and 5MW of heat, which Sky [...]

Lifting apprenticeship now delivered online

The Level 3 Lifting Equipment Technician Apprenticeship is now available for delivery in England as an open programme, meaning that the teaching is delivered via online classrooms and there are no min[...]

Dockside environmental developments in the US

We round-up the latest environmental developments at US ports. The Port of LA, Port of Long Beach and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), with the support of C40 Cities – a global ne[...]

Hoist UK opens demo room

Deciding not to appear at trade shows this year is a step detailed in the new plan to move demonstration onsite, Hoist UK said. Tony Dickson, Director of Hoist UK, said more time will be spent on demo[...]

Condra manufacturers kibble hoist for pre-sink portal crane at mine

Condra is to manufacture a high-lift, high-speed, heavy-duty kibble (or bucket) hoist for a 15-ton pre-sink mining portal crane for a South African customer. Lifting height will be 150m, which Condra [...]

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