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Modulift Spreader Beam Raises Chimney in Tandem Lift

Baltic mobile crane rental company Strele Logistics supplied lifting and rigging equipment, including a Modulift spreader beam, as a 49t chimney was installed at a biological waste treatment facility in Kaunas, Lithuania last month (February). Strele accepted a scope of work to load the 35m-long, 2.75m-diameter pipe where it was manufactured at Enerstena Group’s facility, […]

The tower crane industry, to meet in Miami

Linden Comansa will be attending the main tower crane event in North America in June, showing its wide range of products and services The city of Miami was one of the U.S. most booming areas for construction in 2017, despite the problems caused by Hurricane Irma to the local tower crane industry last September. Probably […]

SP Load Cells Integral to Floating Crane Software Package

Polish marine electronics integration specialist Navinord has installed a state-of-the-art software package that includes four Straightpoint (SP) load cells on a 440t capacity floating crane, which is currently based near the Third Millennium John Paul II Bridge spanning the Martwa Wisła River in Gdansk, Poland. Its new owner renovated the crane, originally named “Consulado De […]

The fascination of mechanised tunnelling

In tunnel engineering, superlatives are the norm, and new records are set, somewhere in the world, almost every day. Kilometre-long bores through mountain massifs, deep below the seabed or only centimetres away from existing urban infrastructure: everywhere, man and machine successfully drill their way through. In most cases, tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) from Herrenknecht provide the […]

Empire Crane Places Order for 14 New DEMAG CRANES

ZWEIBRÜCKEN – March 5, 2018 – Customer demand for strong, compact all terrain cranes rises in North America. Terex Cranes distributor Empire Crane Co. in North Syracuse, NY therefore placed an order for new models including seven AC 45 City cranes. An uptick in the construction industry, and customers’ interest in crane models that are […]

ALE go for gold with Olympic roof installation

ALE has completed the roof installation of the Olympic Parque Roca swimming pool in Buenos Aries, Argentina. The lifts were performed in December and finished in January. ALE installed six sections, weighing up to 50t, as well as a springboard and steel structure, using a 600t crawler crane with a luffing jib and 30.5m mast. […]

PaR launches its Europe Handling Solutions Centre of Excellence

1st March 2018: PaR Systems (PaR), a global leader in automated handling systems, will open a new facility at Lillyhall, Workington in early 2018 as a part of a long-term investment PaR has committed to its customers in the UK. PaR recently agreed to an extended framework agreement to support Sellafield Ltd., allowing the company to increase […]

A Further LR 1250 Enhances Crane Fleet and Convinces During Works Expansion

Nenzing (Austria) March 2018 – The company Dornseiff expands its fleet with a crawler crane type LR 1250. Both the continuously variable main boom of the Liebherr crane and the possibility of increasing lifting capacity were huge advantages on the jobsite for the works expansion of the lighting manufacturer Osram in Regensburg, where Dornseiff’s new […]

Linden Comansa will be exhibiting at the Big 5 Heavy show in Dubai

Tower crane manufacturer and dealer AREMATES will show one of the models of higher demand in Emirates, the 16CM260 12t flat-top crane The Big 5, a brand of reference in the Middle East with regard to construction fairs, is organizing the Big 5 Heavy show, an event dedicated solely to machinery for public works and […]

ST3 Lifts Jacket Foundations for Wind Farm with Modulift Beams

Modulift has supplied two large spreader beams to complete a rig that will lift 20 wind farm jacket foundations onto vessels at ST3 Offshore’s dockside location in Szczecin, Poland, close to the country’s northwestern border with Germany. The jackets are bound for Cuxhaven and will eventually be installed at the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind […]