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Breaking Bread
27 December, 2023
A heavy-duty knuckle boom crane used for the most delicate of glazing jobs; a freestanding tower crane installing a wind turbine gantry atop a 157-metre-tall concrete tower; electric 'tow and go' cranes charging from residential homes whilst they work; and mini cranes in the USA – the land where big has traditionally meant better. These are just some of the striking innovations included within this issue; changes shaking up the lifting industry in this crazy post-modern world we live in. A world where everything is in flux and nothing can be taken for granted.

Sustaining the green revolution
17 July, 2023
Incredible lifting and transport work is happening all around the world (see page 34 for a snapshot of just some of the awardwinning work being carried out in Europe alone). This issue, however, underscores a recurrent theme that, month on month, is growing in momentum across our industry: sustainability.

Make do and mend
19 June, 2023
A pamphlet issued by the British Ministry of Information in the midst of WWII contained the phrase 'make do and mend'. It was designed to provide housewives with useful tips on how to be both frugal and stylish in times of harsh rationing.

New Beginnings
27 July, 2021
The crane industry predominantly consists of long-established manufacturers, many of which were founded just after World War II. This is the reason why when a company decides to enter the market is big news.

The new oil
20 May, 2021
When interviewed for a feature on the Middle East market a few months ago, executive director at Al Faris Kieve Pinto said low oil prices caused uncertainty in the market and that there was a drop in investment in large scale oil and gas projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Competing on technique, not size
16 March, 2020
For more than a decade, the world’s heavy lift specialists have been competing as to who is going to manufacture the biggest crane with the largest lifting capacity.

Choosing a look, choosing names
14 February, 2019
Sometimes, how a thing is presented, how it looks or how we name it, shapes how we think of it, even if the thing itself is unchanged. Think, for example, of how 'premium' and 'basic' products are packaged at the supermarket: glossy packaging, metallic embossing, and an emphasis on ingredients for 'premium' goods; primary colours, simple design, and a focus on price and value for 'basic' goods. Often, the gap between the two is not as great as the name or the package might suggest.

Looking back
17 December, 2018
This month, I've been taking a look back over our news coverage for 2018. There have been quite a few significant developments over the year.

What did the EU ever do for us?
28 July, 2016
I am writing this comment shortly after the UK referendum on the country's membership of the European Union. A scant majority of British voters chose to leave the EU.

The year gone by, and to come
01 December, 2015
This has been a good year in many ways for Cranes Today. I think that we've again achieved our editorial mission of keeping crane owners around the world informed of trends in their industry, and advocating for safe and efficient working practices.

Getting engaged
03 August, 2015
This month, we have two features looking at standards and regulation. Both illustrate the importance of crane owners and users working together to engage with the rules that shape the lifting industry. Too often, I think, influencing these rules is left solely to manufacturers. Often their interests coincide with those of their customers, not least because they flourish when their customers flourish. But these issues are often too important to be left to manufacturers alone.

EU may 'ban new cranes in 2019'
01 May, 2015
This week, the UK votes on a new parliament, after an election dominated by the xenophobic UKIP, or UK Independence Party.

Time again for innovation?
26 June, 2014
Over the last few years, difficult post-crisis market conditions and the engineering challenges of complying with strict engine regulations have slowed development across much of the crane industry.

EU machinery safety plan hits a wall of cheese
18 March, 2014
For more than five years, the European trade associations FEM and CECE, who both count crane manufacturers among their members, as well as three other machinery trade bodies, have been working to promote an improvement of the EU's market surveillance framework. This is a key way of ensuring that cranes sold in the EU are safe and environmentally friendly, and that regulation is imposed on all manufacturers equally, preserving fair competition.

Being, nothingness and trade shows
28 March, 2012
Paris is a city that offers a vast range of different attractions, romance and adventure, fine food and wine, great art and architecture. Another of its attractions is as the birthplace of the modern intellectual, the place where people like Sartre and Camus, Baudrillard and Foucault, asked essential questions about humanity's place in the world,; how do we understand the world around us? How do we justify our actions? Why are we here?