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Long-lost cousins
17 December, 2007
A shared ancestry going back a thousand years has given a boost to Turkish contractors working in Central Asia. Will North reports

Comansa's new luffer finds work in Ireland
14 December, 2007
Linden Comansa's first LCL-500 luffing jib tower crane was sold to Ireland dealer Stafford Tower Cranes and was working on a factory expansion of concrete supplier Irish Cement in the suburbs of Dublin, Ireland.

A long reach to take down tower
14 December, 2007
Bovis Lend Lease UK needed to employ police support to help rental firm Ainscough Crane Hire manoeuvre a 500t Liebherr LTM 1500.1.8 into Cambridge city centre. The crane was to be used to dismantle Comedil tower cranes supplied by Select Plant at the Grand Arcade, a £220m (EUR169m) retail development. 

Wilbert's 280-item to do list
11 December, 2007
Franz-Rudolf Wilbert has turned expertise in using tower cranes into a successful business building them, using standard industrial components.

Planning a lift on your phone
11 December, 2007
Every new crane now comes with a computer. In the future, every lift supervisor may have one as well.

Electronic kerb feelers come to cranes
10 December, 2007
The US Navy in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, has installed two camera systems to mount on Grove GMK 3055 all terrains to improve visibility when reversing.

View from the tip
10 December, 2007
Northern Crane's Ft McMurray, Canada, branch has been using boom-tip cameras on two crawler cranes working in industrial facilities run by Canadian oil producer Syncrude for almost two years, reports Will Dalrymple.

Jumeirah Lake Towers accident
10 December, 2007
A luffing-jib crane collapsed recently at the Jumeirah Lake Towers development in Dubai, UAE.  Cranes Today understands that the operator reported that the luffing brake had failed. The question is, why did the jib drop so catastrophically?

Chinese crane makers meet to discuss goals
07 December, 2007
Lucia Wang reports on the October meeting of the annual conference of the hoist branch of the China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA), which attracted 76 guests from most of the Chinese crane-makers, and some multinationals too.

Hiab's virtual safety cage
06 December, 2007
After several loader accidents in Australia, Swedish manufacturer Hiab has launched a working area limitation system for small loader cranes

Jost steps up a gear with latest designs
05 December, 2007
Jost Cranes has innovative designs and experienced partners, but above all it has the imagination of Franc Jost. Phil Bishop reports

Excon 2007, Bangalore, India
23 November, 2007
Twenty crane manufacturers took part in Excon 2007, twice as many as in 2005. P.P. Basistha and Will North report.

Migration limits Polish construction
22 November, 2007
EFH Zurawie Wiezowe is one of Poland’s leading tower crane rental firms, and distributes Terex-Comedil cranes in the country. Managing director Piotr Guzowski says, “EFH Zurawie Wiezowe has more than 40 employees, and owns 96 tower cranes: over half are made by Terex-Comedil, but we also have some from Wolffkran and Liebherr. Our firm offers customers complex service: the rent of the crane together with the assembly, the technical reception and the service of operator.

Loads of boom
21 November, 2007
A new segment of rough terrain cranes with capacities over 90 US tons and long booms are taking the US by storm, reports Will Dalrymple

Made in Bulgaria
21 November, 2007
Loader crane manufacturer Palfinger now makes most of its booms and hydraulic cylinders in one of the newest members of the EU. Far from being the poor cousins of the west, eastern European countries have become hot destinations for crane manufacturing. Will North reports

Barcodes on steroids
15 November, 2007
RFID tags are claimed to speed up tracking and inspecting rigging gear, reports Roger Lindley

Back to Sea
14 November, 2007
Kurt Thomsen, the Danish man who made constructing offshore wind farms feasible, is back in the business with a new venture, Gaoh Offshore Ltd. He speaks to Phil Bishop.

Seaside cranes get a grip
14 November, 2007
Adrian Greeman reports on an unusual outdoors use of vacuum lifting in two coastal defence projects in the UK, one of the first civil engineering uses for the technology.

Interview: Ainscough's third generation
29 October, 2007
Ainscough Crane Hire announced in October that Martin, James and Brendan Ainscough, sons of founder Gerald, have sold the 31-year-old business for GBP 255m (EUR 372m). The new owners are Ainscough's senior managers and the Bank of Scotland, which provided an integrated debt and equity package.

All loaders great and small
29 October, 2007
Product development seems to be continuing at all levels of the loader crane marketplace. At the SAIE show in Bologna, Italy in October, most of the innovation was concentrated at the largest and smallest capacities. Will Dalrymple reports