Search Results: 'Cranes Asia'

Long-lost cousins
17 December, 2007
A shared ancestry going back a thousand years has given a boost to Turkish contractors working in Central Asia. Will North reports

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.

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

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

Barcodes on steroids
15 November, 2007
RFID tags are claimed to speed up tracking and inspecting rigging gear, reports Roger Lindley

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.

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

High- wire act
13 September, 2007
Overwhelming demand for cranes is also making scarce its single most important lifting accessory, wire rope, reports Will Dalrymple

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

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.

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

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.

Hiap Tong Crane & Transport
15 August, 2007
We have a fleet of 150 cranes, including rough terrains, truck-mounted & all-terrain & crawler cranes. Our smallest RT is a 20 tonner and the largest mobile crane is the 800-tonne Liebherr LTM1800 which we purchased in November 2006. This is one of the largest cranes in Southeast Asia.