Crane builder Brunnhuber has completed testing for the first of two 50t gantry cranes for emergency work on the locks of the Moselle River. The Water and Shipping Authority of Koblenz, Germany, operat[...]
Sumner Manufacturing of Houston, TX, has launched what it calls a lightweight, portable and easy-to-assemble GH2T Gantry Crane, to provide mechanical contractors with portable lifting. The GH2T Gantry[...]
Air Technical Industries developed a bespoke crane for handling particularly dangerous cargo—live sharks—at an aquarium in New York. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York City needed[...]
Demag Cranes AG’s Management board has appointed Lawrence Lockwood of Terex as CFO and member of the management board. Crane manufacturer Demag Cranes AG in Germany currently controlled by Terex in [...]
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. [...]
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