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AmQuip - The Crane People - relaunch website
AmQuip, one of the biggest crane rental companies in the United States, has launched a new website today. The first and general thing to notice when you visit the new website is that it is broader and created more eye-friendly now. The text is bigger and pictures appear in a good viewable size and no more as thumbnails only.
Also new to the site is the immediate accessable equipment section. On the old page this part was hidden behind a user registration. Now you can check the complete fleet of cranes offered for rental and one can instantly download specifications for the cranes you need. To me this is yet more interesting because we have delivered the PDF-files for the crane specs from the equipment guide we have prepared for Amquip last year. This means yet another online reference for your service.
Recent lifting projects from "The Crane People" are introduced with additional information in the category "Services". A good idea to me seems to be the "Featured Profiles" on each site: People working for Amquip are introduced with a picture, contact information and a short biography, showing their experience in the crane business.
One important part for me on a website is always a good news section. In this case news were already published on the old version, but now it is perfectly integrated into the site. It is no more shown in a little frame you have to scroll as before.
In my opinion the revision of the new AmQuip website was very well done!
Tags: AmQuip - Crane rental - crane specs - Cranes - equipment guide - The Crane People - United States - website
New production facilities for Manitowoc in Wilhelmshaven
Manitowoc has opened two new halls for the production of the GTK 1100 and superstructures of GMK All Terrain cranes in Wilhelmshaven. The testing and storing area at the same time was increased with a further 12000 square meters. Also a new customer area was opened for the handover of the cranes to the customers.
Parkland bought by Northern Crane Services
Canadian crane hire company NCS Northern Cranes Services has taken over Parkland Crane Service based in Stony Plain, Alberta. Parkland runs cranes from 8 to 200 tons and will be completely integrated into NCS.
24 Demags for Hewden
UK based crane hire Hewden has spent 12 million euros to buy for 24 Demag cranes. Nine cranes of this order already have been delivered. The remaining rest of the order will be fullfilled until summer of 2007. The complete order covers cranes from 35 to 100 tonnes capacity. The total fleet of Hewden comprises 229 crane units altogether. Hewden concentrates ist crane fleet capacities in the range up to 100 tonnes to fullfill their customers needs best.
Grove GMK 6350 mobile in Chile
Chilean rental company Avemi has purchased a 317.5 t (350 USt) capacity Grove GMK 6350 mobile crane. The crane has been put to work at the El Abra copper mine in northern Chile where it has been busy handling general maintenance and emergency lifting work for government-owned producer Codelco (Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile). It is one of the few cranes in this capacity class available for rental in the region.
Already proving a valued asset by demonstrating excellent lifting characteristics, Avemi recently had its GMK 6350 take the lead in a tri-crane lift of a mineral spreader in the El Abra field. It helped lift the 108 t (120 USt) machine after it broke in the middle and landed on its side. The GMK 6350 used 50% of rated capacity from its second boom section at a 12 m (40 ft) radius.
The lifting work took four days in total to complete. Calama-based Avemi’s GMK 6350 is the third Grove crane it has purchased in recent years. The company runs two 118 t (130 USt) GMK5130 models, as well as a 54 t (60 USt) RT 760.
Key specifications of the GMK6350 include a boom length between 15.4 m (51 ft) and 60 m (197 ft) and a jib that tops out at 61 m (200 ft). It boasts 193 kW (260 hp) of power under the hood and has a GVW of 72 t (79.3 USt).
Source: Manitowoc, Press release
Manitowoc at CONEXPO 2005
Manitowoc Crane Group is exhibiting products from its entire crane line at this year’s CONEXPO 2005 being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, from March 15-19. The company will have a total of 14 cranes, 12 of them new, on its 3530 m2 (38,000 ft2) booth in the outdoor Gold Lot, Stand #440, including three brand new machines and a number of units making their first appearance in the US. In addition to the lifting equipment on display, Manitowoc will have areas dedicated to Manitowoc Crane CARE, its industry-leading after-sales division, and CraneCREDIT, its financing arm. There will also be a training simulator on the stand, on which visitors to the booth are encouraged to test their lifting skills. This year’s event marks the first combined trade show of all four Manitowoc Crane Group product brands in North America. The company comprises crawler cranes from Manitowoc, mobile hydraulic cranes from Grove, tower cranes from Potain, and boom trucks from National. The units on display at this year’s CONEXPO are:
- Grove GMK5130-1 (known as the GMK5165 in the US) all-terrain crane (NEW!)
- Grove RT875E rough-terrain crane (NEW!)
- Grove TMS800E truck crane (NEW!)
- Grove YB5515 industrial crane (NEW!)
- Grove YB7720XL industrial crane (NEW!)
- Manitowoc Model 16000 crawler crane (NEW!)
- Manitowoc Model 12000 crawler crane (NEW!)
- National Series 690E boom truck (NEW!)
- National Series 9125E boom truck (NEW!)
- National Series 18103 boom truck
- Potain MDT 178 Topless City tower crane (NEW!)
- Potain HDT 80 self-erecting tower crane
- Potain Igo 50 self-erecting tower crane (NEW!)
- Potain Igo MA 21 self-erecting crane (NEW!)
CONEXPO 2005 will be the largest construction industry gathering of the year with an expected 100,000 plus visitors expected from a total of 120 countries.
Source: Manitowow, Press release
Tags: 12000 - 16000 - Conexpo - CraneCREDIT - Cranes - Crawler crane - GMK 5130-1 - Manitowoc - Manitowoc Crane CARE - RT 875E - TMS 800E
Hewden announces major changes
UK based Hewden Stuart, the largest rental company in Europe, owned by CAT dealer Finning International, has today announced a major organisational restructuring of its Tool Hire and Plant Hire businesses aimed at moving the group closer to its customers. Hewden plans to combine the two businesses into a single entity with the intention to simplify contact, ordering, logistics and invoicing processes while providing customers with the convenience of dealing with one company for all of their tool and plant hire needs.
Hewden Plant Hire includes, Telehandlers, Excavators, Pumps, rollers, dumpers and the like, but not Cranes and Access. The statement from the company says that these divisions “will continue to operate as they do now”. As part of the restructure, Brian Sherlock has been appointed to the newly created role of Director, Operations he will be responsible for driving the integration forward. “In order to achieve our ambitious growth plans we identified the need to simplify the organisational structure with streamlined product offerings and one distribution channel to our customers.
It makes sense to give our customers the convenience of dealing with a single entity, when they want to do so, and that is what the restructuring will achieve” said Sherlock. “The new organisation will operate on a hub and spoke concept, with rental centres (hubs) providing a comprehensive set of products and services, supported by a number of local rental stores (spokes), outlets that provide product offerings and services used regularly by the local customer base. The objective is to ensure that we fully meet the needs of customers with multiple sites, whilst continuing to provide quality of service to those who deal with us on a local basis only,” he continued. Hewden also announce that Mike Penn, currently Director, Construction Equipment at Finning UK - has been appointed to the role of Director, Sales & Marketing. his role will be to develop the national and regional sales and marketing organisation, moving Hewden closer to its customers. Penn will also take overall responsibility for Hewden’s product portfolio, including sourcing strategy and asset disposal.
Source: Vertikal.net
