A sudden pandemic shut-down of industries worldwide, followed a few weeks later by an almostequally- sudden bounce back in demand, left the ports system of the world disrupted and in chaos. Loading an[...]
Multiplast, a French manufacturer of monohulls and multihulls for ships, has purchased two Europont overhead cranes fitted with Verlinde hoists for its new composite material parts workshop. The compa[...]
With the ongoing pressure on US President Joe Biden to lift steel tariffs and news that Sweden’s SSAB has produced the ‘world’s first fossil-free’ steel, Jenny Eagle looks at the latest projec[...]
Swan Housing Associates of Essex and East London, a builder and manager of houses to rent or buy, has bought a Shuttlelift SL 35II gantry crane for offsite construction of modular housing units. The v[...]
Rolls-Royce Vietnam, based in the coastal province of Vung Tau 100km from Ho Chi Minh City, is an integral part of the Rolls-Royce marine services network spanning five continents with capabilities ra[...]
Italy’s engineering has a global reputation, and the country has many manufacturers of hoists and cranes. But the pandemic hit there hard and early. How have its hoist makers fared since then? Italy[...]
Crane and hoist manufacturer Condra is to supply lifting equipment for continuing expansion at Aberdare Cables’ facility at Port Elizabeth in South Africa. The modernisation and expansion programme [...]
ASB International, a manufacturer of production machinery for PET containers, has equipped its export-focused plant near Mumbai, India with some of Konecranes’ most advanced lifting technologies, wi[...]
As work on the world’s largest International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) progresses, we look at the cranes assembling the machinery inside the Tokamak. Work is steadily progressing on [...]
Casar has supplied replacement ropes for a Goliath crane operating at the Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark. The portal crane has been operating at the shipyard since 2001, when it was erected to repla[...]