Verlinde has supplied a hoist used as a fall-arrest mechanism for NASA’s Valkyrie humanoid robot, which is currently being tested at the University of Edinburgh, UK. The 1.8m-high robot walks on two[…]
LiftEx 2022 is back, hosted by LEEA in Aberdeen, October 5-6, 2022. Now in its 17th year, the event will feature 100 exhibitors, over two days, as well as the LEEA Awards and now the biggest ever Lift[…]
Spain-based Airpes has launched its Eagle black box system, designed to monitor and log the hoist, trolley and bridge movements of high duty cycle cranes and hoists. Airpes, a weighing systems and lif[…]
Smith Erectors put together a complete rigging system, incorporating eight custom-made heavy-lift slings from Cortland, to remove a 20-year-old, 300t bridge crane from a Steel Dynamics Incorporated (S[…]
Metal production is a core industry and a hard one: temperatures are extreme, loads are heavy and hot or else difficult and hard to handle. Julian Champkin reports. Making metal is challenging. Ores a[…]
UK-based Demag Cranes & Components has added overhung and extending configurations to its KBK Aluline light crane system, to suit applications where there is a requirement to move loads beyond the[…]
Engineered Material Handling (EMH) has introduced its EG Series hoist, which offers additional features to its E Series hoist for single girder overhead cranes. The EG Series provides easier trolley a[…]
Hoists and hoisting operations have become safer over the years, but accidents still happen and sometimes they can be very serious indeed. Julian Champkin reports. A properly maintained hoist, used as[…]
The Terminal Petikemas Semarang (TPKS) container handling terminal in Central Java, Indonesia, recently extended the world’s first commercially-operated fleet of Konecranes automated rubber tyre gan[…]
A combination of Erikkila light crane systems and Kito hoists were installed at an innovative tractor manufacturing facility in Germany. Deutz-Fahr, a manufacturer of agricultural engineering equipmen[…]
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