The large ‘party tents’ that span Munich’s Oktoberfest are one of the icons of the festival, with enough room altogether for well over 100,000 revellers. Pletschacher, the Dasing-based company t[...]
A sailing club in Wales has installed a 3t-capacity Tall Porta-Gantry crane from Reid Lifting to lift boats and other items during repair and maintenance. Newport Uskmouth Sailing Club (NUSC), based a[...]
ALE has overseen the move a gantry crane over live railway lines, as part of London’s HS2 project. The gantry crane, which weighed 290t, was due to be moved into position for demolition in North Lon[...]
UK-based rental company Speedy Hire has ordered 20 1,000kg-capacity lightweight gantry cranes from Reid Lifting. The 1,000kg models are a recent addition to Reid’s Porta-Gantry Rapide range. David U[...]
Smith Erectors put together a complete rigging system, incorporating eight custom-made heavy-lift slings from Cortland, to remove a 20-year-old, 300t bridge crane from a Steel Dynamics Incorporated (S[...]
ATS Cranes, the official distributor of Verlinde Lifting Equipment in Qatar, has supplied two motorized 1.25 ton jib cranes for the maintenance of a drinking water pumping station at the Internal Secu[...]
AMRC (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre), part of the University of Sheffield, has installed two Streetcrane 10t cranes at AMRC Factory 2050, the UK’s first reconfigurable assembly and componen[...]
Operating at a height of 14m, Bangladesh based, MKK Logistics, an Enterprise of Shams Group of Companies, has used an Enerpac SBL900 hydraulic gantry crane to successfully install a 130t HPIP turbine [...]
The ITER Project has achieved a major machine assembly milestone, as the first sub-section of the ITER plasma chamber was successfully lifted out of tooling and lowered into the machine well. The shee[...]