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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 […]

GW Becker Inc, a custom design manufacturer of overhead cranes in North America, has promoted Melanie Arnio to HR, Health & Safety manager. After working in HR for five years, Arnio will take on the challenges and opportunities of becoming HR, Health and Safety manager. With experience as an HR generalist in manufacturing, Arnio will […]

Kalmar, part of Cargotec has signed a contract with The Bristol Port Company to undertake a comprehensive upgrade of one of the terminal's ship-to-shore (STS) cranes. The order was booked in Cargotec's 2018 second quarter order intake and the upgrade project is scheduled to be completed during Q1 2019. The Port of Bristol is located […]

Italian company Morello has designed and manufactured the Omni-E self-loading multidirectional battery trolley with 70t payload for an important Indian Company. This battery powered trolley has been designed to avoid using the overhead crane to move material around the plant and is remotely controlled by an REMDevice Unit. The trolley can go under the load, lift it […]

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, will organise a idea creation challenge, Kalmar Co-Create, during TOC Europe that will take place in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The two-day event organised on 12-13 June 2018 aims to discover disruptive ideas to specific customer challenges in container handling industry through co-creation with terminal operators, solution providers and development partners. Lasse […]