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 [...]
The Italian crane market has a large number of independent manufacturers offering high-quality technology. With a new government elected earlier this year, Daniel Searle visited companies in the Milan[...]
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 [...]
Street Crane has sold three freestanding goliath cranes to luxury yacht makers Princess Yachts. The goliath cranes are needed to produce 30-40m M Class tri-deck yachts at Devonport Dockyard in the UK.[...]
Hoists from Stahl Crane Systems are assisting the dismantling process at the Philippsburg nuclear power plant in Germany. Germany is currently in the process of decommissioning all of its nuclear powe[...]
Evyap Port, located on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, Turkey, has purchased eight fully-electric rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTG) , due to be delivered in March 2013. These will be Konecranes' first [...]
Two new gantry cranes have been delivered to DP World Sokhna, Egypt’s commercial gateway between Cairo and the Red Sea, to boost productivity at the port’s container handling operations. The two s[...]
Car and truck makers require huge numbers of hoists, lifts and winches in their factories. Julian Champkin investigates the lifting machinery that is used. The automotive industry has long been recogn[...]
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