Konecranes has launched a new add-on for its diesel RTGs, allowing owners to convert them to hybrid diesel/electric power. The Hybrid Power Pack is designed to allow users the ease of use of a fully d[...]
Mining is a specialised business that requires specialised lifting equipment. Julian Champkin reports. Mining is more than dark underground tunnels of men with picks and machines extracting coal – v[...]
Columbus McKinnon, the American material handling product manufacturer, has launched the 15-60USt capacity Yale LodeKing electric wire rope hoist, targeting an international market. The hoist will com[...]
Konecranes has signed a deal with Rio Tinto Alcan, the aluminum-producing branch of international mining group Rio Tinto, to install two Smarton cranes at Alcan's British Columbia-based smelting facil[...]
R&M Materials Handling manufactured more than 40 cranes and hoists for a bus production facility in California. The equipment, supplied by R&M’s distributor CraneTech, was installed at Gilli[...]
Eilbeck Cranes Brisbane, in Australia, has successfully recommissioned a 260t overhead crane designed to be used to assemble tunnel boring machines, allowing it to be used on a new tunneling project. [...]
A joint venture of Finnish port lifting solutions manufacturer Cargotec, and Chinese Jiangsu Rainbow Heavy Industries (RHI), called Rainbow-Cargotec Industries (RCI), recently held a ground-breaking c[...]
Oscar Fillol, CEO at automatic lifting solutions provider Elebia, and Siemens’ Roland Najbar, business development manager for the crane industry, discuss Industry 4.0 and explain what their compani[...]
Terex has launched a new division, port solutios, that joins its recent Gottwald acquisition up with Noell and Fantuzzi, acquired in 2009, and PPM, acquired in 1995. The launch of the new division was[...]
Konecranes Americas has been contracted to supply two 410USt gantry cranes for a $800m maintenance and upgrade project at the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant in Ludington, MI. The hydroelectric plant, [...]
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