Unic minicrane flies to roof of Shard Skyscraper
23 January 2012
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.
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23 January 2012
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.
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26 January 2012
International rental firm Hiap Tong has bought a Grove GMK6300L all terrain crane for work within its headquarter country of Singapore.

25 January 2012
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.

26 January 2012
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.

25 January 2012
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.

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19 December 2011
At the start of the year, it looked like 2011 might be the year that would mark a turnaround from the global financial crisis. With developed economies in crisis, that hope disappeared. Over the next two pages, Cranes Today’s regular writers consider some of the highs and lows of the year.

16 December 2011
As rising oil prices outpace the gradually recovering demand for petrochemicals, companies in the sector are courting hire firms in an effort to get more bang for their buck. Kevin Walsh reports.

16 December 2011
Last month, Stuart Anderson explained how alternative lifting devices built by heavy lift specialists have come to share more and more with crawler cranes. This month, he considers the troubled state of the mainstream crawler industry, the development of crawlers from 100t in 1947 to 3,200t today.

16 December 2011
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The Swedbank Arena in Solna, near Stockholm, is Sweden's new national football stadium, with capacity for 50,000 seated sports fans and up to 65,000 concertgoers.

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