We look at several case studies from the automotive industry. Sporting success Yaplex has provided handling systems for a UK sports car manufacturer. Yaplex, UK designers and manufactures of bespoke d[...]
Mobile gantry cranes bridge the gaps between factory, yard, and construction site. Bernadette Ballantyne looks at the potential of this technology. There are a number of reasons why mobile gantry cran[...]
Crane manufacturer and lifting equipment specialist DT Engineering NW has built a Goliath crane on top of an overhead electric travelling crane in a car manufacturer’s press shop. The installation e[...]
ArcelorMittal Construction, a global provider of building systems and materials, is using automatic hooks with overhead cranes to lift steel profiles at two sites in eastern France. The construction d[...]
Street Crane is helping Port of Blyth to enhance its fabrication services with a new Goliath crane. Located on the north east coast of England, the Port of Blyth is used as a strategic hub by many shi[...]
A Modulift spreader bar was used to allow a dockside gantry crane and crawler to work in tandem. For a job lifting 750t monopiles at the port of Cuxhaven, Schmidbauer used the port’s own gantry cran[...]
MHE-Demag recently supplied maintenance and repair cranes for a vast underground cavern at the Hulu Terengganu Hydroelectric Project. The company secured a contract to supply two units of 150t/25t/5t [...]
Sotiris Kanaris speaks to Richard Carr, CEO and MD of Mechan, about the company’s focus on the niche railway market. Mechan started manufacturing jib cranes and other lifting equipment in 1969 at it[...]
Jaso Industrial Cranes has recently supplied cranes to two projects in the railway sector in its domestic Spanish market. Talgo, a leading company in the design, manufacture and maintenance of railway[...]
A 704t unit was lifted by Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division, as part of a project to build an aircraft carrier. The unit was lifted into Dry Dock 12 at Newport, Virgi[...]