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 [...]
With Brexit creating an uncertain landscape, Daniel Searle spoke to UK manufacturers about current and future opportunities. He visited Street Crane, a company planning large-scale growth. There are b[...]
The US Port of West Sacramento has bought a new Liebherr LHM 420 mobile harbour crane to enable it to handle intermodal containers for import and export beginning 2012. US government federal stimulus [...]
Anker Schroeder ASDO (ASDO), based in Germany, has launched heavy lifting shackles ranging from 85t to 1,500t capacity, in heavy duty (HD), heavy super (HS) and heavy polar (HP) ranges. Large shackles[...]
The future of factories is the so-called ‘Industry 4.0’, the complete and seamlessly integrated digital control of a production line. Julian Champkin looks at the current state of the art in digit[...]
In the German city of Hannover this month, two Terex AC 40 City cranes successfully performed a tandem lift to install a bridge crane in a factory, using assembly jibs and no ropes. The tandem lift wa[...]
Liebherr announced the expansion of its African mobile harbour crane business, as it celebrated receiving an order for its one hundredth mobile harbour crane from APM Terminals at the Port of Apapa in[...]
The Naresuan Dam was built between 1976 and 1985 to control the flow of the Nan River north of the city of Phitsaulok in Thailand. As part of its strategy to increase clean power generation, the Thai [...]
The Positioning Solution System purchased is a modular positioning control system that works not only with bridge cranes, but also with stacker cranes, shuttle cars and other industrial vehicles. Hans[...]
Harrington Hoists has announced a new line of lightweight electric chain hoists, the ED Infinity range, designed for workstation or assembly line use as well as for pick and place operations. Tailored[...]
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