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The FLTA’s Awards for Excellence has been shortlisted for Best Event at the Trade Association Forum’s Best Practice Awards. It’s the second time the FLTA has been nominated for the award in four years, having previously won a Best Practice Award for the FLTA Safety Conference in 2015. The FLTA’s Awards for Excellence brings together […]

One of Ireland’s leading plant, access and tool hire companies has expanded its fleet with the addition of multiple Snorkel lifts. Working with Dave Roddy of Snorkel UK since 2017, Charleville Hire & Platform Ltd T/A CPH have added numerous Snorkel electric scissor lifts, electric boom lifts, and diesel boom lifts to their hire fleet. […]

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has been contracted by Noatum Ports to perform specialised repair work on a ship-to-shore crane located at its container terminal in Valencia, Spain. The order was booked in Cargotec's 2018 first quarter order intake and the work, which is scheduled to last 24 weeks, will be completed early in the third […]

Scotload, a specialist in load measuring and load monitoring solutions for the international lifting industry, and part of James Fisher and Sons plc has launched an online store to give its customers an easy way to order off-the-shelf load monitoring products. The site has been developed in response to customer feedback and has been designed […]

With a salute to National Forklift Safety Day, Crown Equipment Corporation, one of the world’s largest material handling companies, has announced the opening of a new regional forklift service training centre in Toledo, Ohio. The facility increases the company’s training network to 14 sites globally, including nine regional service training centres across North America. Located […]

Delta-Q Technologies (Delta-Q), a leader in battery charging solutions for electric drive vehicles and machines, announced the release of four new high frequency lithium battery chargers in the ICL Series – the ICL1200 and ICL1500 in 85V and 120V models. Trent Punnett, Delta-Q Technologies, VP of sales, marketing, and product management says, “With the offering […]

Temporary Works Design (TWD) successfully completed the turnkey delivery of a Jacket Lifting Tool to Van Oord. Early in June the first jacket foundation for the East Anglia One offshore wind farm was successfully installed. The heavy lift vessel Bokalift One transported two jacket foundations to the installation site. The lightweight lifting tool was able […]

For more than 25 years, the Youth Apprenticeship Program has been a part of The Raymond Corporation’s commitment to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and encouraging young talent to explore career paths in manufacturing. Coordinated through the Broome-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), the programme provides a hands-on, experiential approach to learning […]

Heavy lift specialist, Richard Krabbendam, the man behind, and usually also in front of, seminars and master-classes on topics relevant to the transport, lifting, shipping and offshore industry in over 26 countries has joined forces with TWD (Temporary Works Design). After more than 22 years as a heavy lift specialist with Jumbo Shipping, Krabbendam has […]

Rope and Sling Specialists (RSS) has installed two new testing machines at its most recently opened depot in Warrington—a year after collecting the keys for the facility in the northeast of England. A 60t fixed, horizontal test bed from AJT Equipment Ltd and a 100t Worlifts jack tester were both delivered in May. These machines […]