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GTK raises first windmill in the field
19 December, 2007
Manitowoc’s Grove GTK1100 crane has completed its first series of lifts at a job site in Germany. The distinctive crane, with its unique design and transportation abilities, was first shown in iron at the Bauma trade show. Following further tests at Manitowoc’s Wilhelmshaven factory in Germany, the first unit went to work in December for owner Wiesbauer.

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

Review of the year, 2007
14 November, 2007
As a new year approaches, Will North looks backs at a selection of the 500 stories covered on our website, www.cranestodaymagazine.com.

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

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.

Chinese crawlers on verge of a boom
26 October, 2007
At BICES, Chinese manufacturers showed how they are meeting demand for crawlers, reports Will North.

Baring his soul
26 October, 2007
Ron Schad, chief executive of Essex Crane Rental, brought in his manufacturing expertise to reengineer crawler crane rental. But it took an improved business cycle to put his work to the test. Interview by Will Dalrymple

Potain launches MCT 78
10 October, 2007
Potain has launched a second crane in its City Topless range, the MCT 78, at the opening of its Baltar, Portugal, plant.

Rope trick
14 September, 2007
While crane designs have developed in leaps and bounds, wire rope for lifting has remained essentially the same for around 100 years. The demands of passenger elevators and mining may bring dramatic changes to lifting ropes, reports Will North

Interview: Yuchun Zhang
13 September, 2007
Lucia Wang speaks to Yuchun Zhang, general manager of Xuzhou Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd (XHMC), China’s market leader, about its plans to export Chinese-made cranes

Inside the world's biggest market
13 September, 2007
Lucia Wang profiles the market for mobile cranes in China, which sells more cranes than any other single country in the world

Big Kobelco crawler does first Scotland lift
29 August, 2007
Inverness, Scotland-based international heavy-lift specialist Weldex, who took delivery of the first of two new 550t-capacity Kobelco SL6000 crawler cranes after the Bauma exhibition in April, has carried out its first lifting job – the placing of a huge turbine blade assembly and nacelle for a new generation of wind-turbines, in the build up of a trial ‘mega’ wind-farm.

Jost dealer launching JTL 68.4 at Vertikal Days
23 August, 2007
MTI-LUX, a dealer of German tower crane manufacturer Jost, is launching the small Jost topless luffer JTL 68.4 at the new Vertikal Days UK exhibition, 19-20 September at they Haydock Park Racecourse, Merseyside.

Chinese takeaway
16 August, 2007
With order times for mobile cranes mounting, some European distributors are looking to China for new cranes. Will North reports

Northern China shows its stuff
16 August, 2007
Although the most authentic of all the Chinese construction equipment shows, BICES fits awkwardly into the exhibition calendar.

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.

J Martin Benchoff, 1926-2007
25 July, 2007
J Martin Benchoff will be widely remembered as a larger-than-life figure who devoted his life to his twin passions of Grove Manufacturing Company and big game hunting. He was an iconoclastic storyteller, and a bold and visionary leader, recollects his friend and colleague Stuart Anderson.

Cranes phone home
16 July, 2007
Some high tech crane manufacturers can tap into the computers running their crane and diagnose, and sometimes fix, faults from a distance. Although most people agree this is the future, not everyone is convinced that the service is worth the trouble, reports Will Dalrymple

Effer makes EUR 44.7m under Sol. Ge.
01 June, 2007
Sol. Ge., the firm that was set up to take over Effer, has issued its first annual report in May.

Link-Belt HTT-8690 returns
25 May, 2007
Link-Belt's HTT 8690 was shown at SED, two weeks after being shown at Bauma. Because the four-axle 81t-capacity conventional truck crane is not CE-marked, and so is not road-legal, it was carried all the way on special low-loader.