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Big and booming
13 December, 2019
Big in America, little-known elsewhere, the boom truck is a telescopic crane mounted on a standard commercial truck chassis. It is the crane of preference for construction and utilities in the US. But new owners, new entrants, even new countries of origin are coming into the market. Julian Champkin reports.

Easier, safer, faster
13 December, 2019
John Bensalhia finds out about the latest developments in operator assistance technology.

Spreading the word
09 December, 2019
Liebherr's Aleksandra Meissner, general manager of the company's mobile construction crane (MK) line, is sure that these cranes, rather than being a niche product, have a role to play in every fleet. Will North spoke to her in Biberach earlier this year.

Raising the Roof
03 October, 2019
The nuclear power sector continues to drive demand for the world’s biggest cranes. Julian Champkin visited Hinkley Point, where Sarens and Favco have giant cranes at work, and reports on nuclear projects around the world.

A Smaller Telecrawler
03 October, 2019
For more than 50 years the concept of the telecrawler crane has intrigued the industry. Labelled, until recently, as a ‘niche’, the cranes are taking an increasing share of the market. Here, Stuart Anderson assesses the market in the smallest swing cab models, up to 30t capacity.

The Global village
03 October, 2019
As Liebherr's Ehingen plant celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this summer, Will North visited the plant and talked to three of its managing directors about the company's past and future.

A wide ranging issue
03 October, 2019
This month, we cover the industry about as widely as we could: at one end of the capacity scale, our regular correspondent Stuart Anderson takes a deep dive into the small telecrawler sector; on the other, feature writer Julian Champkin, visits the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant, where he saw one of the world's biggest cranes at work.

New HQ for Felbermayr
25 September, 2019
Together with the Upper Austrian state governor Thomas Stelzer and the municipal leader Andreas Rabl, the Wels family company Felbermayr celebrated the official ground-breaking for the erection of the new company headquarters in Wels-Oberthan.

Filipov goes to Manitex
26 August, 2019
Steve Filipov, the former Terex Cranes president who departed the company upon the completion of the sale of Demag Mobile Cranes to Tadano, has been appointed CEO of Manitex. He replaces longstanding CEO David Langevin, who becomes executive chairman of the company.

New Unic Dealer in Poland
19 August, 2019
Unic Cranes Europe has appointed a new Unic mini spider cranes distributor for Poland.

High desert tower cranes
08 August, 2019
Mining has been a key feature of the Chilean economy since the earliest days. Julian Champkin finds that lifting methods have become uniquely adapted to the conditions of South America’s Southern Cone, with tower cranes operating for decades in the Atacama desert and beyond.

Brazil holds its breath
08 August, 2019
Brazil is poised to recover from economic and political crisis. Julian Champkin spoke to Paulo Carvalho of crane company Locabens

From rough to level ground
08 August, 2019
Transporting large rough terrain cranes can be challenging, but manufacturers designed their cranes in a way to aid their customers. Sotiris Kanaris reports.

Looking west
08 August, 2019
Turkish manufacturers have for a long time built high capacity, rear axle mounted, knucklebooms for domestic and global customers. Now one, Hidrokon, is looking to the EU as it develops fully-foldable cranes. Will North joined dealers Hidrokon Europe as they visited the company.

An uncommon market
17 July, 2019
The Vertikal Days show, in May this year, showed a UK crane market that is far from on hold. Julian Champkin found an air of optimism and very many new introductions.

Designing the crane industry
17 July, 2019
As Hans-Dieter Willim retires from his position as head of design at Liebherr Ehingen, Stuart Anderson interviews the man who has for forty years played a key role in shaping the modern mobile crane industry.

The long and the short of it
17 July, 2019
At this year’s Bauma, Manitowoc launched a series of long boom versions of its cranes. It’s not an entirely novel strategy, but one that the US firm has followed across more of its range than any other. Will North asks the big four global all terrain manufacturers how they meet different demands for reach and capacity.

Experience and innovation
17 July, 2019
One of the things that makes the crane industry so interesting to report on, is the level of innovation coming out of a relatively small and tightly-knit industry. Unlike other sectors I've covered, it has been relatively easy to meet a broad range of suppliers and users; and, where some industries progress only slowly, just in the decade or so I've been covering the sector, I've seen new crane types come into regular use.

Winning ticket
20 June, 2019
ESTA, the European association for special transport and mobile cranes, supports best practice and safe working in a number of ways, including bringing together industry experts to develop best practice guidance; through its awards each year; and with its work to develop a European Crane Operators' Licence, ECOL. Here, in pictures, we look at some of the winners of this years awards, and, in the text, get an update on ECOL's development.

Let’s get digital
20 June, 2019
Knuckleboom manufacturers exhibited numerous new products at Bauma. Julian Champkin found that there is increasing technical sophistication in these machines.