WATM and D&G win MCG Asian dealer awards
17 July 2008
Two dealers based in Perth, Western Australia were named Manitowoc Crane Group's top distributors in the Asia-Pacific region at the company's Asian Dealer Conference in Macau.
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17 July 2008
Two dealers based in Perth, Western Australia were named Manitowoc Crane Group's top distributors in the Asia-Pacific region at the company's Asian Dealer Conference in Macau.
News

22 July 2008
Abu Dhabi's Waha Capital has acquired a 49% stake in GMMOS Group, the parent company of Gallagher mobile crane rental, one of the Gulf's oldest and largest crane rental firms. The move is part of a strategy to build a major maritime business, to fit within Waha's larger diversified holdings.

22 July 2008
A major refurbishment project at GPS House in London has utilised Vanson Crane’s LCL 20.1 hydraulic luffing tower crane to provide an efficient and cost effective method of offloading and distributing materials onto the site.

21 July 2008
Lifting operations in public areas for the Delhi Metro will be restricted to night work, after an accident injured four people. Local papers report that a crane's operator fled his cab after smoke erupted from his crane.

21 July 2008

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21 July 2008
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21 July 2008
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Letters to the Editor

August 2008
Terry McGettigan is an OSHA licensed tower crane inspector and certifier, with more than 30 years experience operating tower cranes. He wrote to Cranes Today to describe the alarming results of checks he carried out the day of the Kodiak tower crane collapse in New York City.

June 2008
Thanks for the copies of No. 400. I feel quite proud to have been one of the original starters of it, and inordinately pleased that it's still going 36 years later. Proves that Ian and I knew better than the brains of Morgan Grampian in thinking there was a need for the journal!
Articles

26 June 2008
A tour of Fassi's network of factories around Albino, close to Bergamo, gave visitors a chance to see how new technology will improve delivery times for both cranes and parts. Will North reports. A full photo tour is available on Cranes Today's video page.

17 June 2008
Peinemann won the ESTA award for innovation 2008 for its hydraulic bundle lifter, which launched in May. Will Dalrymple explains how it works

August 2008
Liebherr Ehingen design engineer Hans-Dieter Willim speaks to Cranes Today magazine about the FEM's plans to try to resolve differences between the USA and Europe on the LMI manual override changes in crane design standard EN 13000.???
Equipment stories

08 July 2008
A wireless remote controller uses frequency hopping spread spectrum protocol for data communications in industrial environments.

16 June 2008
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