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At your fingertips
28 December, 2012
New control options have been introduced on hydraulic loader and service cranes by Fassi and Auto Cranes, while Sauer Danfoss and APEM introduced control components.

In our fleet
28 December, 2012
Load 28 Crane Hire, a crane hire firm started by two brothers in their Adelaide, Australia workshop, has a city crane for any job. Founder and operations manager Marcus Rigney explains

A behemoth on the Black Sea
27 December, 2012
Sarens used Cavotec radio remote controls to help guide two enormous fuel reactors from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas to the Lukoil Neftochim oil refinery.

A 280t tight fit
27 December, 2012
Fagioli was commissioned to replace a 280t stator in Gijon, Spain.

Anything, anywhere
27 December, 2012
The reach of the 4,000t Bigge 125D AFRD, tested for the first time last July, is changing the ball game for nuclear power build, allowing lifts from any area of the site, any time.

Raising the roof
26 December, 2012
ALE's unique Mega Jack lifting system was used to raise the roof at an Argentinian mine site, 4,000m above sea level.

Job map
26 December, 2012

Smart loaders
26 December, 2012
At Italian exhibition SAIE, Italian loader crane manufacturers had some things in common besides battling the Euro slump. As well as launching EU-compliant electronics, their flashiest new features were meant to dazzle clients, even those far overseas. Cristina Brooks reports

LR 13000 ready to work
24 December, 2012
Mammoet has assembled the world's largest production crane, the 3,000t Liebherr LR 13000, at BP's Whiting refinery in Indiana, USA.

Previously in Cranes Today...
24 December, 2012
In this new regular feature, we discover what the industry was talking about this month in past decades, as we turn back the pages of the oldest magazine of the lifting sector.

Completely hooked
16 November, 2012
Dutch manufacturer Ropeblock built one of the world's largest hooks, for Sarens' giant SGC- 120 ringer crane. Commercial manager Wim Fabricius explains that the company aims to meet the needs of all users.

Rigging it out
16 November, 2012

In the long haul
16 November, 2012
Cristina Brooks finds out how the size of crane components can impact on transport costs. At the top end of the market, dealers complain, customers around the world can pay an extra $20,000 to transport oversize parts.

After the flood
15 November, 2012
In the second part of a two-part series on the impact of disasters in the Pacific region, Stuart Anderson looks at earthquakes, tsunamis and floods in Asia.

Bauma China 2012
15 November, 2012
New cranes are on the agenda for Bauma China, the International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery in Shanghai this month. Attractions will include the unveiling of new truck cranes from Manitowoc, as well as a redesign of the crawler range from FuWa.

Job map
15 November, 2012

Delivering quality
14 November, 2012
Manitowoc’s recently completed product verification centre in Shady Grove aims to help the company deliver new products more quickly, and more reliably, than ever before. Manitowoc cranes president Eric Etchart explains the thinking behind the company’s investment in this unique facility. Overleaf, the team responsible for the site discuss the technology available, and the engineering principles used there.

Test early, test right
14 November, 2012
Will North visited Shady Grove and spoke to director of global quality systems Jim MacIntyre and product verification centre director Alan Calta about the new approach the company is taking to reducing new product delivery times and defects.

Southern debutantes
14 November, 2012
At an open day for SC&RA members in Lexington, Kentucky, in September, Link-Belt showed off its factory and three new and improved cranes.

The view from the top
13 November, 2012
In 2002, the international cranebuilding industry was undergoing rapid consolidation. Cranes Today spoke to two of the men leading the new US-owned giants, Terex’s Fil Filipov and Manitowoc’s Glen Tellock, about the major acquisitions that the companies had recently completed.