PSA Sines, the Portuguese subsidiary of port operatorPSA International, will for the first time venture into automated rubber-tyred gantry crane (aRTG) systems with the purchase of six Konecranes elec[...]
Condra is to manufacture two overhead cranes for underground use at a Botswana diamond mine. The first crane will be a 15-ton suspension crane. It will feature two I-beams bolted to rock-bolt flanges [...]
With the US facing labour shortages, supply chain issues and even talk of a recession, several businesses in the overhead crane industry describe what they are doing to help not only their customers, [...]
Konecranes is to supply 12 S-series and CXT electric overhead cranes and nine jib cranes to Legnano Teknoelectric Company (LTC) Group’s new 30,000m2 manufacturing plant in Dubai, UAE. LTC Group make[...]
French industrial lifting specialist Plazar Manutention has designed and installed nine overhead cranes for Jouanel, a French manufacturer of machine tools and also tools for the fine sheet metal indu[...]
2020 was a year like no other. The pandemic and the prospect of Brexit between them made it a year to remember, though perhaps not for the right reasons. Julian Champkin looks at how the UK lifting ma[...]
British crane manufacturer Pelloby has supplied a 10t double girder overhead crane to Canal & River Trust to enhance its operational capabilities. The Canal & River Trust has been producing ga[...]
Columbus McKinnon Corporation has launched the Yale LodeKing LT ultra-low headroom top-running wire rope hoist, available in capacities ranging from 10–25t. Manufactured in Wadesboro, North Carolina[...]
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic the industry is continuing to make investments, building new plants, upgrading existing cranes, seeing a rise in electric car sales and foreign companies expanding in Rus[...]
Overhead crane and hoist manufacturer Ace World Companies has received an order for a custom hot metal ladle crane with three hoists from Nucor Steel Kankakee in Illinois. Nucor Steel Kankakee is a pr[...]