Cranes Today News

Mobile control and automation product specialist Hirschmann recently held a three-day training course at Stephenson Equipment of Harrisburg to give participants hands-on experience of the firm’s load moment indicator products.

US international trade association the SC&RA has released two checklists to help fleet owners perform annual inspections of telescopic and lattice boom cranes to ensure compliance with OSHA safety standards.

Leibherr announced that it has been testing a new PowerBoom feature on a 3,000t LR 13000 crawler crane. The feature enhances capacities dramatically.

Manitowoc reported fourth quarter 2011 sales of $1.0bn across all its segments. This figure was up 24.5% in the quarter from 2010, thanks to a buoyant performance by its crane segment in the Americas region.

Two Sennebogen cranes have worked for contractors Max Bögl Bauservice and Wiesbauer on a new €30m logistics centre in Mönchhof near Frankfurt Airport for retail and tourism firm REWE.

ESTA has finalised the speakers list for its one-day ‘safety issues in wind turbine erection and transportation’ summit, being held at the Courtyard Marriott Hamburg Airport Hotel on 14 March.

International rental firm Hiap Tong has bought a Grove GMK6300L all terrain crane for work within its headquarter country of Singapore.

Crane Rental Corporation, US-based rental firm, plans to open a taxi crane service from a new location in its home state of Florida, while adding another Manitowoc 31000 to its fleet of heavylifting crawlers.

R&B Engineering, a Japanese manufacturer of mini-cranes, has formed an agreement with Russian LTECH-Lifting Technology to distribute Mighty Crane mini-cranes throughout Russia.

A new semi-trailer from Scheuerle and sister company Nicolas incorporates hydraulically movable axles, allowing spacing to be adjusted to suit the centre of gravity of the load.

Service truck crane manufacturer Iowa Machine Tooling has promoted its current vice president of sales, Jim Hasty, to the position of general manager of the company.

Contractors lifted a Unic URW-706 compact mini crane to an awe-inspiring height, 283m, on the roof of the Shard, the new skyscraper in London, England.

Liebherr announced this month that it is establishing a mobile crane division in Argentina.

An investigation in Jiuquan, China, into the fatal collapse of a megacrawler has cleared manufacturer Zoomlion of error.

Manitowoc has appointed a new sales manager for Victoria and Tasmania, Andy Chambers, and Ben Masters has been moved to manage Queensland.

In the German city of Hannover this month, two Terex AC 40 City cranes successfully performed a tandem lift to install a bridge crane in a factory, using assembly jibs and no ropes. The tandem lift was chosen to prevent a costly fly in.

Liebherr announced the expansion of its African mobile harbour crane business, as it celebrated receiving an order for its one hundredth mobile harbour crane from APM Terminals at the Port of Apapa in Nigeria.

European mobile crane and abnormal load transport association, ESTA, is holding a one-day conference in Hamburg this March, addressing safety during wind turbine erection and transport, to help reduce accidents.

In Parañaque City, Philippines, four Potain tower cranes are building the $200m Belle Grand Manila Bay resort, a large hotel and casino within the four-casino complex, “Entertainment City”.

The US Port of West Sacramento has bought a new Liebherr LHM 420 mobile harbour crane to enable it to handle intermodal containers for import and export beginning 2012.