The Italian crane market has a large number of independent manufacturers offering high-quality technology. With a new government elected earlier this year, Daniel Searle visited companies in the Milan[...]
Indian-owned Tata Steel has taken another step in the development of its European specialised steel business, with the completion of a major investment in upgrading one of the coilers at its IJmuiden [...]
Street Crane has sold three freestanding goliath cranes to luxury yacht makers Princess Yachts. The goliath cranes are needed to produce 30-40m M Class tri-deck yachts at Devonport Dockyard in the UK.[...]
Hoists from Stahl Crane Systems are assisting the dismantling process at the Philippsburg nuclear power plant in Germany. Germany is currently in the process of decommissioning all of its nuclear powe[...]
Evyap Port, located on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, Turkey, has purchased eight fully-electric rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTG) , due to be delivered in March 2013. These will be Konecranes' first [...]
Two new gantry cranes have been delivered to DP World Sokhna, Egypt’s commercial gateway between Cairo and the Red Sea, to boost productivity at the port’s container handling operations. The two s[...]
Car and truck makers require huge numbers of hoists, lifts and winches in their factories. Julian Champkin investigates the lifting machinery that is used. The automotive industry has long been recogn[...]
A contract for three process cranes to be used in a South African mine has been awarded by ThyssenKrupp group’s material handling business unit. Demag Cranes AG will build the three 80t ZKKW double [...]
UK chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, met with company directors and workers when he visited one of the country's largest factory crane manufacturers earlier this month. During a visit to ma[...]
A major upgrade to one of the world’s oldest deep underground railways, at Bank in London, relies on a single overhead crane nestled in a side street. Positioning the crane, and the logistics of its[...]