Breakbulk Americas will return to the George R. Brown Center in Houston, from September 27-29, enabling business transactions and lead generation for the project cargo and breakbulk market in Canada, [...]
Chinese automotive die manufacturer Shanghai Superior Die Technology (SSDT) has worked with Konecranes to help meet its targets for smart manufacturing. SSDT is an affiliate of SAIC Motor Corporation,[...]
UK-based Rope and Sling Specialists (RSS) has tested 24 jibs, runway beams and related hoists at a waste-to-energy plant in Wales. The testing took place over three visits to the Wheelabrator Parc Adf[...]
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has approved a five-year $38m contract to REEL COH, Canada, to fabricate, deliver and install a gantry crane with a lifting capacity of 680 tons for Niagara Power P[...]
A manufacturer of heavy equipment trailers has opened a new facility in South Dakota, fitted with a range of cranes and load monitoring equipment. Trail-Eze is a manufacturer of sliding axle, hydrauli[...]
Verlinde has supplied a hoist used as a fall-arrest mechanism for NASA’s Valkyrie humanoid robot, which is currently being tested at the University of Edinburgh, UK. The 1.8m-high robot walks on two[...]
LiftEx 2022 is back, hosted by LEEA in Aberdeen, October 5-6, 2022. Now in its 17th year, the event will feature 100 exhibitors, over two days, as well as the LEEA Awards and now the biggest ever Lift[...]
Spain-based Airpes has launched its Eagle black box system, designed to monitor and log the hoist, trolley and bridge movements of high duty cycle cranes and hoists. Airpes, a weighing systems and lif[...]
Smith Erectors put together a complete rigging system, incorporating eight custom-made heavy-lift slings from Cortland, to remove a 20-year-old, 300t bridge crane from a Steel Dynamics Incorporated (S[...]
Metal production is a core industry and a hard one: temperatures are extreme, loads are heavy and hot or else difficult and hard to handle. Julian Champkin reports. Making metal is challenging. Ores a[...]