Today on Cranes Today Magazine
Zoomlion builds bridges
One of the world’s largest cranes, the Zoomlion D5200 tower crane, has been used for the second time, for the construction of the Yingwuzhou River Bridge in Wuhan, China. The bridge over the river...
Read more
Bauma snapshots
Cranes Today contributor Ron van der Velpen joined the crowds at this year’s Bauma, and captured some highlights of the show. Here, we present photos from him, and others, showing some of the...
Read more
A high reach lift
Membrey Transport and Crane Hire recently undertook an unusual lifting project, relocating a rare Rothschild giraffe from the Melbourne Zoo in Victoria to the Mogo Zoo in NSW, 800km away. The firm...
Read moreLATEST NEWS
Master riggers JV Trucking & Rigging (JVT&R) used a Maeda MC305-2 minicrane and F&M Mafco Timberland derrick to secure and replace the upper section of a Favelle Favco tower crane left dangling over Manhattan by Hurricane Sandy.
-
FibreMax scores investment for unique synthetic ropes
Synthetic cable manufacturer FibreMax has sold a 25% stake to private equity firm NPM Capital. The manufacturer, which is based in the Netherlands said that it was planning to use the capital injected by its new shareholder, to establish a sales organisation to market the cables to the mining, offshore, building, construction, heavy transport industries and for those carrying out heavy industrial applications.
-
Boom boost for Manitex revenue in Q1
Boom truck sales and improved commercial activity were the major reasons behind an increase in Manitex’s revenues for the first quarter of 2013. The company reported that net revenues rose 39% to a record $59.6m, compared with $42.8m in 2012. There was a 53% increase in net income to $1.9m up from $1.3m last years figures.
-
Empire Crane orders Mantis telecrawlers at Bauma
American dealer Empire Crane placed an order at the Bauma trade show in Munich for two 77t Tadano Mantis 15010 telecrawlers. Empire Crane, which is a Tadano Mantis dealer in the northeast United States said it has consistent and growing demand for the Mantis products in its region and has purchased the cranes as additional stock to support its increasing Mantis business.
-
Tiong Woon revenue 29% up on 2012
The heavy lift and haulage segment of rental company Tiong Woon was the main contributor to a SGD35.3m rise in revenue for first quarter of 2013 from last years results. Compared to a year ago, the heavy lift and haulage was up 29% to SGD35.6m. Tiong Woon said the rise was mainly due to the increase in heavy lift and installation projects undertaken in the Asia Pacific region.
LATEST FEATURES
Ainscough was acquired by its management, backed by Bank of Scotland, in 2007. This year new investors acquired BoS's stake. Gareth Jones, commercial director, explains the deal and Ainscough's plans.
-
Standing against the wind
On this page, we look at how rental firm Hartinger and wind turbine manufacturer Enercon used two of the world's biggest telecrawlers on a wind farm project. Overleaf, we review two new anemometers and manual winch for turbine maintenance.
-
Low capacity, high competition
The drive to modernise fleets in the wake of tightening engine emissions standards, along with a pick up in construction activity is leading to increased activity in the small crawler cranes sector. Bernadette Ballantyne reports.
-
Middle East and North Africa job roundup
This month, Cranes Today profiles jobs from across the Middle East & North Africa.
-
Spreader beams on a roll
In January of this year, Rolls-Royce chose spreader beam manufacturer Modulift to move the world’s most powerful gas turbine onto the British Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier the HMS Queen Elizabeth, at Babcock’s Rosyth Shipyard, Scotland. Here we profile that job, and highlight two other new rigging products.
BLOGS
Bauma: Is it worth it?
Bauma is almost certainly the world’s biggest construction equipment trade show. This year, it drew more than half a million visitors, coming, the organisers say, from pretty much every corner of the globe.
Bauma is almost certainly the world’s biggest construction equipment trade show. This year, it drew more than half a million visitors, coming, the organisers say, from pretty much every corner of the globe.
-
Safe on the road, not just on site
Our news lead this month looks at a British politician's call to enact legislation after a woman and her two young children were killed in Aberdeenshire when their car slipped on hydraulic fluid leaking from a mobile crane carrier. Local MP Sir Robert Smith is asking for an exemption from roadworthiness tests for cranes to be removed.
-
Getting harder to get on the road
At the last meeting of ESTA, the European special transport and mobile crane association, one member of the cranes group asked manufacturers why they couldn’t buy a crane that combined the three ideal taxi crane characteristics of capacity, reach and roadability.
-
A year of innovation
In this month’s issue, we’ve covered the first jobs for some of the biggest new pieces of equipment around the world. We also look at how users and suppliers of some smaller pieces of equipment are finding ways to innovate.
LATEST EVENTS
-
ISARC 2013
International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining
