Anker Schroeder ASDO (ASDO), based in Germany, has launched heavy lifting shackles ranging from 85t to 1,500t capacity, in heavy duty (HD), heavy super (HS) and heavy polar (HP) ranges. Large shackles[...]
The future of factories is the so-called ‘Industry 4.0’, the complete and seamlessly integrated digital control of a production line. Julian Champkin looks at the current state of the art in digit[...]
In the German city of Hannover this month, two Terex AC 40 City cranes successfully performed a tandem lift to install a bridge crane in a factory, using assembly jibs and no ropes. The tandem lift wa[...]
Liebherr announced the expansion of its African mobile harbour crane business, as it celebrated receiving an order for its one hundredth mobile harbour crane from APM Terminals at the Port of Apapa in[...]
The Naresuan Dam was built between 1976 and 1985 to control the flow of the Nan River north of the city of Phitsaulok in Thailand. As part of its strategy to increase clean power generation, the Thai [...]
The Positioning Solution System purchased is a modular positioning control system that works not only with bridge cranes, but also with stacker cranes, shuttle cars and other industrial vehicles. Hans[...]
Harrington Hoists has announced a new line of lightweight electric chain hoists, the ED Infinity range, designed for workstation or assembly line use as well as for pick and place operations. Tailored[...]
Jaso Industrial Cranes has supplied equipment for three stages of the hydropower complex in Guatemala, starting with Renace II, completed in 2011, and continuing today with Renace IV. Four hydro-elect[...]
The Saudi Arabian natural gas client refines natural gas to create usable fuel in the Saudi Arabian desert by means of special filtration processes. Within a filter station, two to four 24m towers, 3m[...]
The pump manufacturer client has been reviewing its processes and redesigning its every work cell in its factory over the past five years as it moved to produce a new product. The pump manufacturer de[...]