LEEA, the Lifting Equipment Engineers’ Association, has updated its User’s Pocket Guide to Lifting Equipment. First published in 1998, the latest edition of the 132 page, pocket-size publication p[...]
C'est un 80 tonnes de double poutre du portique du Thai Binh 1 centrale thermique au Vietnam. Conçu, fabriqué et fourni par le Vietnam Structures en Acier et des Équipements de Levage (Vinalift) et cu[...]
GIS produced four 5t-capacity electric chain hoists to assist the construction of a funicular railway in the mountains of its home country of Switzerland. The hoists were part of a customised rig used[...]
Harrington Hoists has launched a new line of electric wire rope hoists, the RHN ‘Rhino’ Series. These hoists are offered in two configurations. The deck or base-mounted hoist version is available [...]
US lifting and rigging business Mazzella Companies has announced the acquisition of Newell Davis Company of Wilmington, North Carolina. Mazzella says this acquisition further strengthens its footprint[...]
Julian Champkin reports on the factors affecting the nations in Asia’s lifting market. Asia comprises 48 countries and some 30% of the world’s landmass, and stretches from Afghanistan to Japan and[...]
Engineered Material Handling (EMH) has launched a new single leg semi-gantry crane that’s designed to transfer loads between workstations and free up overhead cranes for other tasks. It has a 10-ton[...]
Mammoet complète de retrait et de remplacement d'un premier générateur de vapeur en France. Cinq ans après Mammoet a d'abord été approché par l'électricité nucléaire française, société Framatome pour aider à l'enlèvement et de la r[...]
Anti-sway technology was revolutionary when it was first introduced – but back then it did not actually work very well. Today’s systems, in contrast, offer safety and economy, and allow even a non[...]
Heavy lift specialist Osprey helped deliver two polar crane main beams to the UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant that is currently under construction earlier in the year. The APCO Technologies[...]