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, [...]
Nucor, the biggest steel maker in the US, worked with Pintsch Bubenzer to retrofit emergency brakes on its cranes—as the brake manufacturer warns many other steel firms miss out on these important s[...]
A new revision to the British Standard for cranes will clarify guidance on inspection, maintenance and thorough examination of overhead cranes, emphasise scheduling testing and inspection to crane usa[...]
German control component provider B-Command has recently launched the new Alpha cross limit switch for overhead cranes. “After over two years of development we now present our new cross limit switch[...]
A US steel mill has seen its fully automated cranes system improve its operational efficiency. When a major US steel mill in Arkansas required a new approach to coil handling for its rolled-toorder pr[...]
Crane manufacturer Konecranes acquired Ameratronic Industries of Portage, Indiana in June. Ameratronic Industries is a Northwest Indiana crane and hoist service firm. It has been in business for at le[...]
South Africa-based Condra has sold four mining hoists on a rapid turnaround in Canada. The hoists were sold by Indoc Cranes, Condra's authorised agent in Canada. Condra entered the Canadian market at [...]
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