Search Results: 'Cranes Asia'

TiL hits 5,000, as MCG tours Asia
12 December, 2007
At a ceremony attended by a swathe of senior Manitowoc directors, and scores of customers and partners, TiL (formerly Tractors India Ltd) sold its 5,000th crane, a Grove-licensed RT630C, to Rajasthan Reliance Industries.

MCG opens first Asian call centre
05 December, 2007
Manitowoc Crane Group has opened an English/Mandarin customer contact centre in Zhangjiagang, China.

Project engineers, Norway
15 November, 2007
Dreggen is now recruiting project engineers with work experience within deliveries of complex high value products to professional and international buyers.

Poor US loader demand holds back Cargotec growth
12 November, 2007
Cargotec announced Q3 sales of EUR713m, up from EUR625m in the same period last year. Ship crane division MacGregor and container handling arm Kalmar reported strong orders, but Hiab was held back by poor demand in the US.

NRC Plant becomes UK Link-Belt dealer
26 October, 2007
UK crawler crane dealer NRC Plant Ltd. has been named a Link-Belt telescopic crane dealer for the whole of the United Kingdom and Ireland, effective October 2007.

Muhibbah announces second quarter growth
10 September, 2007
Muhibbah Engineering has reported strong revenue growth in the first half of 2007, with overall revenue up 16.5% to MYR600.2m ($170.88m), and cranes revenue up 17.3% to MYR196m ($55.8m) from MYR167m ($47.54m) in the first half of 2006.

Tiong Woon reports SGD22.5m profit
07 September, 2007
Tiong Woon has reported full year 2007 post tax profits of SGD22.5m, up 155%, and revenues of SGD99.8m, up 44%.

Wood named product manager of Manitowoc crawlers
04 September, 2007
Manitowoc Crane Group has announced the appointment of Mike Wood as global product manager for Manitowoc crawler cranes. The appointment is effective September 1. He takes over from Raman Joshi who has transferred to Singapore taking the position as director of marketing for the Asia-Pacific region.

Polyethylene fiber slings raise performance and lower costs
03 September, 2007
Faster, safer, easier – these are some of the goals for crane operators performing heavy lifting, whether for utility companies, building and construction, offshore assembly or stevedoring, writes Jorn Boesten, Market Segment Manager Industrial, DSM Dyneema

Manitowoc buys factory in eastern Europe
24 August, 2007
Manitowoc Crane Group is equipping a new production plant, at a factory in Saris, Slovakia, acquired from Valcovna Profilov a.s.

Three weeks on, collapsed HK crane still on site; training course starts
02 August, 2007
Three weeks after the Causeway Bay crane collapse, which killed two workers and trapped five, the damaged Wolffkran crane is still draped over the building it was in the middle of demolishing. While the investigation goes on, a new training course has started.

Manitowoc: 'Counterfeits at Bauma'
26 July, 2007
Manitowoc Crane Group vice president of sales and marketing, EMEA, Frans Vanwinkel has warned that counterfeit Potain crane parts are being sold in Spain, the Middle East and Asia, and said that some were on display at Bauma.

Tiong Woon buys Soon Douglas
13 June, 2007
Singapore-based crane rental company Tiong Woon Corporation Holding Ltd has acquired 100% of Singapore rental firm Soon Douglas (Pte) Ltd for SGD $6.64m (USD $4.3m).

Chipolbrok retrofits more of the world's largest twin shipboard cranes
06 June, 2007
Chipolbrok is upgrading the cargo-handling ability of four more 22,000 dwt general cargo ships, and has contracted MacGregor to deliver sets of 150-tonne SWL twin cranes

MCG continues changes at the top
04 June, 2007
Manitowoc Crane Group has appointed three new global product managers. The new appointments are: David Havard, global product manager for Potain tower and self erecting cranes; Neil Hollingshead, global product manager for Grove all-terrain and rough-terrain mobile cranes; and Ruben Olivas Saunders, global product manager for Grove truck cranes and National Crane boom trucks. These product managers join Raman Joshi, global product manager of Manitowoc crawler cranes, in representing MCG’s full product line.

Tellock becomes CEO, Etchart president in Manitowoc reshuffle
11 May, 2007
Glen Tellock has been named CEO of Manitowoc Crane Group. He succeeds Terry Growcock, 61, who will remain chairman of the board of directors through 2008.

CKV lowers AC 650 into hole
25 April, 2007
CKV-Heavy Lifting & Assembly Ltd has lowered a Terex Demag AC 650 into a 15m borehole, as part of a project to build a rail link under the Bosporus, the Istanbul strait at the boundary of Europe and Asia.

BKT invests $3.75m in first UAE tower plant
12 April, 2007
German tower crane manufacturer BKT is to set up a new tower crane manufacturing company in the UAE, and the emirates' first tower crane plant.

Belden completes acquisition of Hirschmann Automation and Control
05 April, 2007
Signal transmission solutions company Belden has completed the acquisition of Hirschmann Automation and Control for a cash price of approximately $260 million. HAC is a leading supplier of industrial ethernet solutions and industrial connectivity with 2006 revenues of approximately $250 million.

Dubai industry gathers at conference
27 February, 2007
The Middle East Cranes conference, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in February, brought together for the first time crane users and owners, manufacturers and dealers, construction contractors and government safety bodies.