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Looking back
17 December, 2018
A ladder into the crane industry
25 October, 2017
This month, we look again at the important role training and certification plays in the industry. There's some good news from the two big certification outfits, the NCCCO in the US, and ECOL in Europe.
Fibre rope returns to the mainstream
28 September, 2017
The potential benefits of fibre rope, versus the steel wire rope routinely used in the industry, have for a long time been a focus for crane manufacturers and rope experts. When I started on this magazine, a little over ten years ago, crane engineers were considering ways to overcome problems with how rope would (or rather, would not easily) spool on the drum. Today, those issues appear to have largely been fixed, not by major changes to crane design as we then thought, but by new ropes that can largely be used in the same way as steel wire rope.
Stronger fleets, in a stronger Fleet File
17 August, 2017
Disaster and hope in London
19 July, 2017
