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All terrains for all people
15 December, 2006
100t (110 US ton) all terrain cranes form the backbone of the industry. With at least two more 100 tonners launching at Bauma next year from Grove and Terex-Demag, the class will continue to dominate mobile rental fleets, reports Will North

Getting closer with remotes
14 December, 2006
The back end of the crane control system that enables radio remote controls to show information on a small display has some other future possibilities for crane users, Will Dalrymple reports

Dubai site safety
14 December, 2006
Safety improvements are following the Dubai construction boom, Will Dalrymple reports

Doha's do-it-yourself tower crane
14 December, 2006
Gordon Stewart, chairman of the tower cranes committee for Standards Australia, recently travelled to Doha, Qatar, and found an interesting, if alarming, tower crane. He reports what he found

Frond seat
13 December, 2006
The first beams are lifted in Dubai's first railway

Safe slinging
13 December, 2006
Although slings made of wire rope are vulnerable to being deformed by sharp bends, and may be out of fashion in Europe, they are still used commonly in job sites around the world. Derrick Bailes of the UK's Lifting Equipment Engineers Association and Howard Kaplan, safety manager for US crane rental firm Southwest, debate the shoulds and shouldn'ts, and their criteria to discard a damaged rope

CMTM party
13 December, 2006
Traditional musicians entertain guests at Chinese construction magazine CMTM's dinner party.

Tricky towers
13 December, 2006
Statoil, an international energy business with oil and gas extraction and production facilities across the Norwegian continental shelf and around the North Sea, recently began building a new fuel reduction plant at Kalundborg, near Copenhagen. The EUR67m new plant will be able to extract 30% more fuel oil from crude than the current plant.

Shanghai salutations
13 December, 2006
Bauma China review

An early start for Southwest
13 December, 2006

GJJ's rooster top
13 December, 2006
Construction hoist manufacturer GJJ, short for the Guangzhou Jing Long Engineering Machinery Co, showed a tower crane rooster top from its new three model-range of saddle-jib towers.

Zoomlion's new truck spread
13 December, 2006
Zoomlion launched a range of four hydraulic truck cranes - the 32t QY30V-1, 40t QY40V, 55t capacity QY50V (42m boom length) and 70t QY70V (44m boom length) and the 160t capacity QAY160 AT.

Trio of BQ Tadanos
13 December, 2006
Three BQ Tadano truck crane models for Asia were on show, each with a Japan-made boom and a different carrier. BQ Tadano is a 50:50 joint venture between Tadano of Japan and China's Beijing Crane Works.

SYM's big luffer
13 December, 2006
Sanyo Heavy Industry Group (SYM) showed a luffing-jib tower crane with lifting capacity of 3t at 50m jib-end. The crane can pick up a 10t load out to 20m.

Huba's new tower
13 December, 2006
Tower crane manufacturer Huba Construction Machinery Co has launched the 200tm-class H7030A saddle-jib tower. The crane can lift 3t at 70m jib-end and can raise loads to maximum hook height of 52m.

Comansa opens Chinese JV
13 December, 2006
The Spanish tower crane manufacturer has bought a Chinese tower crane company.

Changjiang update
13 December, 2006
Jean-Marie Coutant, Terex Changjiang integration director, speaks about the process to integrate Changjiang Cranes, Terex Cranes' latest acquisition announced earlier this year, with its new family

Cattron Unity
13 December, 2006
Cattron has launched what it claims to be an international crane control unit for markets around the world.

Rise of the rising tower
11 December, 2006
While Grove calls its GTK 1100 telescoping mobile crane concept - whose prototype will be on show at Bauma - a brand new type of crane, it might be more accurate to say it is extending an old idea. As Heinz-Gert Kessel reports, this concept has been used before to bring extra height to conventional cranes operating at their limits

Bologna's best
27 November, 2006
SAIE showcased some of the best in the Italian market - primarily towers and loaders. We report back on some surprises that greeted the 176,000 visitors that attended the show