After a five-year tenure as CEO of industrial remote control solutions provider Åkerströms Björbo AB, Anna Stiwne has announced her resignation. Åkerströms will undergo a transformation, focusing[...]
Chainmaster, a supplier of electric and manual chain hoists, as well as load monitoring equipment among other products, has announced that PSI Production will be its official resale partner for Northe[...]
Canada’s only neighbour is the United States and too often it is neglected in comparison. But its lifting industry can hold its own against and even penetrate into US markets. Julian Champkin report[...]
Two harbour crane operators from New Zealand’s Port of Napier were among the first to try out elements of Gottwald Port Technology’s new three-stage harbour crane operator training course. On arri[...]
UK customers will see a significant reduction in delivery times compared to the previous system, which required orders to placed with Konecranes’ French or Finnish production facilities before impor[...]
Engineer Marcel Koenen of Brunssum, the Netherlands, has salvaged and restored a hoist from a demolished canal lock, and installed the machinery in his garden. Koenen’s historic project started with[...]
A programme of dredging and refurbishment along at ports lining Nigeria’s Niger River is gathering pace with the delivery of two Liebherr LHM 180 mobile harbour cranes to Onitsha River Port. Onitsha[...]
Supplied under contract for Indian construction engineering firm Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Forgings, the cranes were installed at the firm’s steel and heavy forging plant in Hazira, Gujarat, where[...]
Political and financial reasons put some new projects on hold but the nuclear business is still alive thanks to the prosperous decommissioning market. Paola De Pascali reports. Even if the nuclear mar[...]
Breakbulk Americas, which takes place in Texas, provides visitors with a networking platform to grow connections, generate new business and strengthen key existing relationships. Breakbulk Americas is[...]