The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (Leea) has announced that four new members have joined the LEEA Technical Committee. They are Rob Messenger of RUD Chains, Wan Djawad from Durham Lifting, R[...]
Sway control devices are becoming ever more useful, and used. Julian Champkin reports. The principle of anti-sway is, in its basics, simple. A load suspended from a rope will act like a pendulum. If t[...]
Columbus McKinnon will bring new life its original headquarters in Tonawanda, New York, converting its former LodeRail production plant into a training center. The training centre will host both opera[...]
BVS Cranes has appointed EX’M Levage et Manutention Company as its official distributor in France. Önder Bülbüloglu, chairman of BVS Cranes, and Enver Bostan, president of EX’M, said at the sig[...]
Verlinde has installed a gantry crane at a hydraulic engineering company in Algeria, replacing the existing crane that had been operating on the site for 30 years. Hydro-Amenagement is a state-owned A[...]
This is the third year in the row Liebherr has pocketed the award for its flexible designs, Liebherr said. In 2009, Liebherr’s LHM 280 mobile harbour crane won the category. Again in 2010, Liebherr[...]
The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (Leea) – a lifting industry representative body – has welcomed the UK government Department for Business and Trade (DBT) announcement, on the 2 August 2[...]
Many of Europe’s major hoist manufacturers attended the CeMat and Messe Hannover show in Germany in late April. Daniel Searle attended the exhibition. The story coming from the Western markets of Eu[...]
This December, Westinghouse Electric Company’s subsidiary PaR Nuclear donated two 30t industrial cranes and training equipment to train engineering students at the University of North Carolina’s E[...]
New Orleans has been announced as the setting for this year’s two-day jointly held Crane & Rigging Conference/Industrial Crane & Hoist Conference (CRC/ICHC), scheduled to start on 23 May. Th[...]
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