LEEA, the Lifting Equipment Engineers’ Association, has updated its User’s Pocket Guide to Lifting Equipment. First published in 1998, the latest edition of the 132 page, pocket-size publication p[...]
This is an 80-ton double girder gantry crane at the Thai Binh 1 thermal power plant in Vietnam. Designed, manufactured and supplied by Vietnam Steel Structures and Lifting Equipments (Vinalift) and cu[...]
GIS produced four 5t-capacity electric chain hoists to assist the construction of a funicular railway in the mountains of its home country of Switzerland. The hoists were part of a customised rig used[...]
Harrington Hoists has launched a new line of electric wire rope hoists, the RHN ‘Rhino’ Series. These hoists are offered in two configurations. The deck or base-mounted hoist version is available [...]
US lifting and rigging business Mazzella Companies has announced the acquisition of Newell Davis Company of Wilmington, North Carolina. Mazzella says this acquisition further strengthens its footprint[...]
Julian Champkin reports on the factors affecting the nations in Asia’s lifting market. Asia comprises 48 countries and some 30% of the world’s landmass, and stretches from Afghanistan to Japan and[...]
Engineered Material Handling (EMH) has launched a new single leg semi-gantry crane that’s designed to transfer loads between workstations and free up overhead cranes for other tasks. It has a 10-ton[...]
Mammoet completes removal and replacement of a first steam generator in France. Five years after Mammoet was first approached by French nuclear power company Framatome to assist with the removal and r[...]
Anti-sway technology was revolutionary when it was first introduced – but back then it did not actually work very well. Today’s systems, in contrast, offer safety and economy, and allow even a non[...]
Heavy lift specialist Osprey helped deliver two polar crane main beams to the UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant that is currently under construction earlier in the year. The APCO Technologies[...]
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