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The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association is pleased to announce that four new members have joined the LEEA Technical Committee. They are Rob Messenger, sales manager Lifting and lashing systems at RUD Chains Ltd; Wan Djawad, technical director at Durham Lifting Ltd; Richard Oldknow, consultant at Yoke Industrial Corp; and Craig Jenkins of Brandon Hire Station. […]

Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd (RSS) has welcomed two UK Members of Parliament (MPs) to different facilities recently. First, the lifting and rigging equipment and services provider hosted Andrew Mitchell, MP for Sutton Coldfield, at its Minworth, West Midlands depot, before Pyle, South Wales headquarters opened its doors to Carolyn Harris, MP for Swansea East. […]

Ross Moloney, CEO of Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA), on the importance of finding your perfect lifting partner – one on which you can rely, have assurance that they will deliver and, above all, be safe. Successful partnerships move the world forward and nowhere more so than in engineering. Just look at aircraft from Concorde […]

Ross Moloney, CEO of Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA), is encouraged by how our industry is coming together to address the skills shortage challenge. A list of ingredients is stirring up a skills shortage stew that is exerting a considerable toll on organisations around the world. In the UK, for example, the Recruitment & Employment […]

Powered by LEEA and supporting organisations, #GLAD is now a widely celebrated day where manufacturers, suppliers, and end users are among those sharing material that promotes safe and high-quality load lifting. Yesterday no fewer than 10 UK Members of Parliament attended  LEEA event at the Jubilee Room in Westminster, which served as the unofficial launch […]

The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) has announced that comedian, presenter, actor and singer, Jason Manford will be the special guest at the LEEA Awards 2023 dinner, which will be held at the Rum Warehouse in Liverpool, UK on the evening of 21st November 2023 – the first night of LiftEx 2023. Hosting shows like […]

This year’s Global Lifting Awareness Day, which takes place on 13 July, will kick-off with an event at UK Parliament on the eve of #GLAD2023 and lead into a packed programme of content, delivered by the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA).It will be an emphatic statement to industry that #GLAD2023 – and everything it stands […]

Ross Moloney, CEO of Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA), looks at how Regional Councils are building momentum behind LEEA’s global approach. Winning the argument for high quality practices and equipment across the globe, and in all supply chains, is a key aim for LEEA. Through establishing Regional Councils to take control over directing LEEA operations […]

LEEA (Lifting Equipment Engineers Association) is now offering members the PLM (Powered Lifting Machines) Manual Lifting Machines (MLM) Global courses in English, Arabic, Bahasa, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese. These are the latest additions to the market leading training courses being rolled out as part the Association’s state-of-the-art Academy 2.0 platform. LEEA’s all new Foundation […]

LEEA has recently launched an updated Team card using near field communications (NFC) so end users can authenticate the Team card member with a simple swipe of their mobile device against the Team card. It’s the same technology that Yoke uses in its range of rigging hardware (shackles, lifting points, slings, blocks, swivels , etc) […]