Julian Champkin reports on sites in the Middle East, the US and Europe where cranes are being employed by the metal industry. Dillinger Hütte is the largest heavy-plate steel plant in Europe and has [...]
Supplied under contract for Indian construction engineering firm Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Forgings, the cranes were installed at the firm’s steel and heavy forging plant in Hazira, Gujarat, where[...]
A metallurgy plant in southern Europe has installed two identical overhead cranes from BVS Cranes at either end of a 275m-long train station. Each crane comes with a container revolver hoist, one 8.0m[...]
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[...]
Indian-owned Tata Steel has taken another step in the development of its European specialised steel business, with the completion of a major investment in upgrading one of the coilers at its IJmuiden [...]
Scottish structural steel fabrication and erection contractor, J & D Pierce, has awarded the contract to supply six cranes for its Glengarnock facility in Ayrshire, Scotland to Konecranes UK. The [...]
A 41m overhead crane installed at a UK steel plant is due to be joined shortly by the largest-capacity crane ever made by manufacturer Jaso Industrial Cranes. Jaso Industrial Cranes is manufacturing t[...]
Two double girder overhead cranes are to be used in Jazan Economic City, Saudi Arabia, where Outotec is building a new ilmenite smelter for Christal Global, which is the world’s second largest produ[...]
Spanish company Jaso Industrial Cranes has been awarded a contract worth more than £10m to supply new overhead cranes for a UK-based steel production company. The seven cranes will service Sheffield [...]
Konecranes is making its Uniton heavy-duty industrial overhead crane available to customers in the South East Asia Pacific region. The system, which was showcased at the recent South East Asian Iron a[...]
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