Cranes Today Magazine
Klaas launches 6t mobile aluminium crane
German crane and aerial lift manufacturer Klaas has released its latest innovation, the Klaas K1100 RSX truck-mounted aluminium crane.
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80 cranes in two years
The Ulferts & Wittrock Group has taken delivery of forty new Liebherr mobile cranes over the last year. Another order package for forty cranes for delivery this year has already been signed.
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Floating gantry for bridge project
Lacking space for a mobile crane, heavy lift equipment rental company LGH has used its Enerpac telescopic hydraulic gantry to assist its customer in removing the Steenhuisenbrug bridge at Burdaard in Friesland, The Netherlands.
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Potain has launched the MRH 175 tower crane, a new hydraulic luffing jib crane that will make its debut at ConExpo 2020.
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Ainscough installs bridge at factory
Ainscough Crane Hire has installed a new bridge at Jaguar Land Rover’s car manufacturing factory in Lode Lane, Solihull, UK, for mechanical engineering company MII Engineering.
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Sennebogen for motorway bridge
Lepine TP is using its new 55t Sennebogen 655HD duty cycle crane for the construction of a new motorway bridge in Ille-et-Vilaine, known as the "Gateway to Brittany".
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Caldwell launches two new products
Rockford, Illinois-based The Caldwell Group has launched the Dura-Mod modular spreader beam and a vertical clamp.
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Terex appoints UAE tower cranes dealer
Terex has appointed Galadari Trucks and Heavy Equipment (GTHE), a subsidiary of Galadari Brothers Company, as the official Terex distributor for tower cranes for the United Arab Emirates.
LATEST FEATURES
As countries around the world look for low carbon energy generation, the traditional power sources of coal and gas may be losing favour but that’s not to say they are on the literal or metaphorical scrap heap yet. Keren Fallwell reports.
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Trading places
There are often good business reasons to consider buying second-hand rather than new cranes, although the market remains steady at best and sluggish at worst, reports Ian Vallely.
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The new 'small'
Drawing on the exclusive data collected by his firm Chortsey Barr Associates, Stuart Anderson explains the history of small all terrains, and current sales in the 55-60t capacity class.
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The way ahead
In December, Will North visited Manitowoc’s Shady Grove, Pennsylvania plant, and learned how the company is working to deliver new cranes in a rapid development cycle.
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Lifting with a view
A Liebherr LTM 1130-5.1 mobile crane was used to erect a container village in the Swiss Alps for the workers and specialists involved in a dam wall construction project.
LATEST COMMENTS
Bigger and Bigger
In this issue we cover Barnhart’s acquisition of Viant Crane, a move that will further enhance Barnhart’s presence in the Midwest, where Barnhart already operates a number of branches. This is the second such announcement by the company in less than a year, as it previously entered into an agreement under which it will own the majority of assets of Burkhalter Rigging of Columbus, Mississippi.
In this issue we cover Barnhart’s acquisition of Viant Crane, a move that will further enhance Barnhart’s presence in the Midwest, where Barnhart already operates a number of branches. This is the second such announcement by the company in less than a year, as it previously entered into an agreement under which it will own the majority of assets of Burkhalter Rigging of Columbus, Mississippi.
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Wind of change
On the occasion of the UN Global Climate Action Summit and the Global Climate Strikes, renewable energy became a hot discussion topic among government leaders as well as citizens of countries around the world.
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A wide ranging issue
This month, we cover the industry about as widely as we could: at one end of the capacity scale, our regular correspondent Stuart Anderson takes a deep dive into the small telecrawler sector; on the other, feature writer Julian Champkin, visits the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant, where he saw one of the world's biggest cranes at work.
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Checking research on checklists
Checklists have become a routine part of modern life. In simple form, as to-do lists and shopping lists, they help us all keep track of the overlapping and numerous tasks of our day.
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Experience and innovation
One of the things that makes the crane industry so interesting to report on, is the level of innovation coming out of a relatively small and tightly-knit industry. Unlike other sectors I've covered, it has been relatively easy to meet a broad range of suppliers and users; and, where some industries progress only slowly, just in the decade or so I've been covering the sector, I've seen new crane types come into regular use.
LATEST EQUIPMENT NEWS
Green Pin® introduces the Power Sling® Shackle in action!
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Sponsored: The History of Åkerströms Björbo AB
Founded in 1918, Akerstroms Bjorbo AB develops, produces, markets and services robust products to a global market for radio remote control of industrial cranes, mobile applications, door-opening systems and locomotives.
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Sponsored: Did you make the SOLAS deadline?
Cranes Today sponsor DLM updates readers on requirement of Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)
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Sponsored: LTM offers GIS lifting solutions for local malt producers
Cranes Today sponsor LTM explains its GIS range
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Sponsored: Kobelco celebrates order of Mammoet for 17 units Kobelco cranes at Bauma
On Thursday 14th April 2016, the 4th day of BAUMA 2016, KOBELCO celebrated the order of MAMMOET for 17 units KOBELCO cranes with a speech and handshake followed by a traditional Japanese sake ceremony with the MAMMOET team and the KOBELCO team dressed in MAMMOET red Japanese happi coats. Ceremonial hammers were used to break open the sake barrel, after which the sake was shared with the gathered crowd in typical Japanese square wooden cups with the logos of MAMMOET and KOBELCO branded on opposite sides. KOBELCO also handed over to MAMMOET: a Kabuko samourai helmet, sword and bow with arrows.
