The tower crane manufacturer focuses all its efforts on a single brand name After many years using the Linden Comansa brand name, the tower crane manufacturer has decided to focus its efforts on a single overall brand, to be used throughout the group, by returning to its original name: COMANSA. This change will be implemented […]
Category Archives: Companies
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Jun
Jun
Below-the-hook equipment manufacturer Modulift and Siemens Heat Transfer Technology B.V. combined forces to design a special rig for lifting modules that weighed nearly 200t a piece. Modulift sent two rigs for on- and off-load in Korea and Thailand respectively—a total of 16 no. 34t capacity MOD 34 beams in addition to slings, shackles, tie-plates, and […]
Companies, Crane Business
Raimondi Cranes appoints first official Italian agent overseeing various territories
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Jun
Jun
June 20, 2018 (Legnano, Milan, Italy) – Raimondi Cranes SpA, established in 1863, has announced the appointment of Italasme Srl to represent the company across four key areas in Italy: Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, and the Aosta Valley. Headed by Davide Lama, Italasme has already commenced commercial activity, and has inaugurated its agency appointment with its […]
Companies, Crane Business, Events, Media
New major investment at Liebherr in Kirchdorf: Ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the new logistics centre for production
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Jun
Jun
Liebherr-Hydraulikbagger GmbH starts a new investment in the future in Kirchdorf an der Iller, thus strengthening the development of the original location of the overall Liebherr Group. The first construction phase of the logistics centre for production started on 11 June 2018 with an official ground-breaking ceremony. Liebherr will invest a total of around 35 […]
Companies, Crane Business, New cranes
First LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane delivered to Asia – Set Win Group delighted with its Liebherr 450-tonne machine
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Jun
Jun
Ehingen / Donau (Germany) June 2018 – The Set Win Group took delivery of its new LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane during the Liebherr Customer Day at Hong Kong. Managing Directors Alan and Raymond Kan are delighted with the new flagship in their fleet: “The LTM 1450-8.1 exceeds our expectations. It was the right decision at […]
Companies, Crane Business, Jobsite reports
Al Faris takes delivery of the first Liebherr LRT rough-terrain cranes in the Middle East
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Jun
Jun
Ehingen / Donau (Germany), June 2018 – Al Faris Equipment Rentals took delivery of two new Liebherr rough-terrain cranes at its company headquarters in Dubai in April – an LRT 1090-2.1 and an LRT 1100-2.1. These are the first of the new Liebherr series to enter use in the Middle East. They are part of […]
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May
May
ALE has broken another industry record when performing the heaviest ever land based crane lift using a jib whilst working on Total’s Egina FPSO module integration project in Nigeria. The FPSO module ‘S2’ weighed a total load of 2,810t and was lifted using ALE’s unique AL.SK350 crane and heavy duty jib for the project in […]
Companies, Crane Business, New cranes
Strictly Cranes sells new Raimondi cranes to various clients across Sydney
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May
May
May 14, 2018 (Legnano, Milan, Italy)- Strictly Cranes of Australia, official Raimondi agent based in New South Wales, has sold four new Raimondi models to various fleet rental companies and developers. In addition, two new cranes have been ordered by Strictly Cranes to add to their existing fleet. “The six new cranes, four 10-tonne MRT152s […]
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May
May
Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd. (RSS) is raising the capacity and diversity of its rigging stock, whilst equipping itself to respond to increasing demand for complex below-the-hook solutions, to more efficiently serve the heavy-lift sector. RSS attends to a myriad of industries from six UK locations but its most recently opened site is in Warrington, […]
Companies, Crane Business, Crane News, General
A decade of continued innovation with the AL.SK crane anniversary
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Apr
Apr
ALE is celebrating the 10-year anniversary since the launch of the AL.SK crane series, which have performed some exceptional and record-breaking lifts previously thought impossible. In 2006, ALE’s Research and Development (R&D) division, based in Breda, the Netherlands, began developing concepts for a new crane. ALE wanted the new design to have the highest capacity […]