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Wolffkran builds new production facility in Luckau
04 December, 2007
Wolffkran is to build a new 80,000 sq m tower section production facility in Luckau, Germany, due to open in April 2008. The plant continues Wolffkran's expansion in Brandenburg state, which surrounds Berlin and was formerly part of East Germany.

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

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.

Potain shows new plant at Baltar
10 October, 2007
Potain has shown visitors around its new plant at Baltar, Portugal. The facility will produce cranes in the MC, MCT and MDT ranges.

Potain steps inside the Iron Curtain with Slovakia factory
09 October, 2007
Manitowoc announced its plans to purchase an old factory building in Saris, Slovakia to manufacture Potain tower cranes, and eventually Grove ATs and Manitowoc crawlers, for the Russian market. Cranes Today speaks with project manager of Manitowoc Crane Group Slovakia facility Eric Pommier about the factory.

UK firefighters practice tower crane rescue
02 October, 2007
A team of local fire-fighters from Durham Fire Station and Hebburn Community Fire Station gathered at the construction site of a new leisure centre and pool complex in Durham, UK to practice rescuing casualties from a 30-metre/100ft high crane. The new leisure complex is being built by Durham-based construction company Morgan Ashurst in the heart of the city.

Above the crane line
25 September, 2007
Two recent high-altitude tower crane installations show that the sky is the limit for tower cranes

Forming at the Firth of Forth
14 September, 2007
A big Potain tower crane is the logistical centre for formworks and concrete casting on the second longest bridge launch project in the world, reports Adrian Greeman

Faust builds crane fleet with Comedil CBR 28 Plus
12 September, 2007
Faust, based in Büchenbeuren, Germany, is building a new tower crane fleet, and has just purchased a new CBR 28 Plus self-erector from Terex-Comedil.

Yes, a crane is a vehicle
30 August, 2007
The UK’s Transport Tribunal has supported a ruling that a truck-mounted crane is part of a vehicle, not its contents, and should not be returned to the owner when the vehicle is impounded.

Interview: Potain India
17 August, 2007
Will Dalrymple spoke to the new president of Potain India, the company formed by Manitowoc’s acquisition of Indian licensee and dealer Shirke, a few days after the deal was done

Tilting at towers
15 August, 2007
It has been a bad 12 months for tower cranes in the UK: one man was killed in a collapse in Liverpool; two, including a member of the public, were killed in Battersea; and a third collapse in Croydon injured the crane's operator.

Ejar's emergence
10 August, 2007
At a time when waiting lists have never been longer, a new rental company is managing to build up a huge fleet of cranes with remarkable speed. Phil Bishop reports.

Building up in Bahrain
10 August, 2007
New rental company Sarens Nass has grown rapidly on the back of the Gulf construction boom. Phil Bishop reports

The near future of crane maintenance is remote
17 July, 2007
Remote diagnostic systems are building a fan-base among technology geeks, and in demanding applications. Soon, however, they may hit the mainstream.

Interview: AmQuip
17 July, 2007
AmQuip founder and owner Joe Wesley has sold the majority of his business to private equity firm Bard Capital, advised by Hudson Capital. A week after the deal, Will Dalrymple spoke to AmQuip president Frank Bardonaro and Bard Capital managing director Michael Carrazza.

Loaders extend their reach
16 July, 2007
Unlike many European markets, the UK has been slow to take up the use of lorry loader cranes for full lifting operations. Will North sees how some UK users are using bigger loaders.

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

A Korean phoenix
14 June, 2007
The BKT tower crane brand has disappeared from the market in the years since Potain bought it in 1998. But those three letters resurfaced a few years ago in a new company, set up by BKT's Korean dealer, reports Heinz-Gert Kessel