Tower cranes

Potain tower crane trio erects Miami’s new administration building

A Potain MD559 and two MDT389-L16s from Maxim Crane Works spent eight months erecting the...

Maxim Crane details 36-crane programme at Brickell City Centre

A Maxim Crane Works case study looks back at Brickell City Centre in Miami, where...

Liebherr 85 EC-B tower cranes lift climate science over the Amazon

Four Liebherr 85 EC-B flat-top tower cranes give AmazonFACE researchers safe access above the rainforest...

Potain appoints PT Potaindo Machinery as dealer for Indonesia

PT Potaindo Machinery becomes Potain's official tower crane dealer for Indonesia, offering nationwide sales, service,...

Four Liebherr Tower Cranes Shape Athens’ New 200-Metre Landmark

On the Athens Riviera, a fleet of Liebherr tower cranes is erecting the 200-metre Hard...

Tower crane or telescopic crane: how to pick for the job

Spierings sets out when a mobile tower crane outperforms a telescopic crane, arguing that lift...

Potain launches battery energy systems for tower cranes

Manitowoc's new Potain Power Solutions battery systems are built for tower crane duty cycles, offering...

Seven Liebherr Cranes Squeeze into a Swiss Valley for N16 Bridge Replacement

Between motorway, railway and river, seven Liebherr cranes are replacing two bridges on the Swiss...

First Potain MDT 489 in Iceland lifts Reykjavik housing job

Iceland’s first Potain MDT 489 is covering an entire precast residential site in Reykjavik on...

Inside Manitowoc Lift Solutions: Potain cranes off the standard chart

Manitowoc Lift Solutions adapts Potain tower cranes for non-standard applications, from rail-travelling shipyard gantries in...

Built with Liebherr: Tower Cranes Shape the New Miami Skyline

EC-B flat-tops, EC-H high-tops and HC-L luffers are at work on seven prominent Miami high-rise...

Three Potain MC 480s finish Luding Dadu River Bridge pylons

Three Potain MC 480 tower cranes, bought by dealer Xiamen Vigors in 2016, built the...

Axle load, not tonnage, now decides where cranes can go

Spierings explains how axle load and axle spacing — not gross weight alone — decide...

MSG puts Liebherr’s new MK 120-5.1E through its first nine months

German crane hirer MSG Krandienst reviews its first nine months with one of the earliest...

Nine Potain cranes build Belgrade’s Nemanjin Grad development

Nine Potain cranes — three MDT 219s, four MDT 178s, an MDT 128 and a...

Two Potain tower cranes serve live Milwaukee hospital campus build

Potain MD 559 and MD 569 tower cranes are supporting a parking structure and a...

Potain MDT 269 lifts penstock sections on Alpine hydropower job

A Potain MDT 269 J12 topless tower crane is handling penstock sections on the rebuild...

Liebherr 630 EC-H built Finland’s tallest bridge pylon in Helsinki

A single Liebherr 630 EC-H 40 Litronic handled all lifting on the 135-metre pylon of...

Two 800-tonne Zoomlion crawlers lift at Phu Quoc airport

Zoomlion ZCC9800W and ZCC11800 crawler cranes are handling 80-tonne components at radii up to 96...

Zoomlion leads seven ISO crane standards after Frankfurt talks

At the ISO/TC96 meetings in Frankfurt, Zoomlion-led crane standards advanced, with the wind load estimation...

Montagrues’ new LTM 1400-6.1 rigs Superlift in under an hour in Paris

Montagrues' first outing with its new Liebherr LTM 1400-6.1 was a tower crane dismantling job...

Sarens takes Spierings eLift fleet to ten electric cranes

Sarens has ordered an SK1265-AT5 eLift and an SK1265-AT6 eLift, taking its Spierings electric mobile...

Iceland’s building boom runs on Liebherr tower cranes

Seven cranes on a salmon farm, fifteen on Reykjavík's new national hospital and an 81K.1...

D&T Machinery appointed Spierings dealer for South Korea

Spierings has named D&T Machinery its official South Korean dealer, covering sales, after-sales and parts...