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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 […]

Over 100 heavy lift contractors, machinery and industrial moving specialists attended the recent Enerpac Heavy Lifting Technology Demo Days in Hengelo, The Netherlands. Themed ‘Industrial Lifting’, the equipment on show included new entry-level, hydraulic gantry systems, together with new developments in low-height skidding systems and trolley systems for jack-up systems. Enerpac Heavy Lifting Technology’s range […]

Straightpoint (SP) has named Onursan Ltd. a distributor of its load cells and other force measurement equipment in Turkey. The Istanbul-based company is a specialist supplier to the marine safety industry, boasting a range that includes marine fire fighting systems, services related to life-rafts, and life-boat davit or winch equipment. The partnership represents Onursan’s entry […]

Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd. (RSS) is raising the capacity and diversity of its rigging stock, while equipping itself to respond to increasing demand for complex below-the-hook solutions, to more efficiently serve the heavy-lift sector. RSS attends to numerous industries from six UK locations but its most recently opened site is in Warrington, close to […]