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Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company has added Jay Richmond to its sales team. With more than 30 years of sales and sales management in the rigging industry, his experience will bring a unique perspective of the rigging industry to Chicago Hardware.  Richmond will be responsible for developing and executing sales strategies in North American markets served […]

Terex is now manufacturing Genie telehandlers at its Oklahoma City facility USA. The 700,000sqft facility employs 260 people and Terex says that it has started recruiting to fill new positions. The company says the Oklahoma City plant has the capacity to produce more types of Genie machines should there be the demand. Matt Fearon, Terex […]

Earl Wohlrab, robotic and palletising systems product manager of North American-based automated material handling solutions provider has been elected to the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) board of directors. Wohlrab began his two-year term following the board’s January meeting. RIA announced its 2015 election results during the A3 business forum on Jan. 21 in Orlando, Florida. […]

The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) has appointed Maurizio Quaranta as its country representative for Italy with effect from 1 March 2015, following restructuring to better meet the needs and requirements of the Italian market. Maurizio Quaranta is a seasoned journalist specialising in equipment and machinery. For the past nine years, he wrote for the […]

Malaysia’s Port Klang has placed a $126million order with Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding for 29 cranes – the largest order in the company’s crane business. The order consists of 14 cranes to unload containers from ships and 15 cranes to transport containers around the port. The automated engine controls on some of the models use […]

William Hackett Chains Ltd, one of the UK’s oldest chain manufacturers has launched the next generation of subsea lever hoists for the oil and gas industry. The new hoist system aims to significantly increase safety and cost efficiency in subsea chain-positioning. Developed over 18 months in partnership with subsea operators and suppliers across the sector, […]

US oilfield service company, Fesco Ltd has bought two new ATF 180G-5 cranes from Tadano America. With a capacity of 200tons and a maximum lift height of 324ft (98.75m). Kevin Franke, Fesco’s crane manager, said that price, reliability, and availability were big factors in the company’s decision to go with Tadano again. “Tadano also has […]

Hyster Company celebrates building its 1,000th reach stacker at its big truck factory in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The milestone reach stacker is one of three Hyster RS46-36 reach stackers that will be used at the PCH Packing Center Hamburg GmbH (PCH), in the Port of Hamburg to transport and stack shipping containers. “Not only is the 1,000th reach stacker […]

Genie announces the Fall Arrest Bar safety accessory, which allows a user to exit the platform and work comfortably around the outside of the platform with a 6-ft lanyard. It attaches to a 6- or 8-ft platform on all Genie telescopic and articulating boom lifts with lift heights higher than 40 ft., with the exception […]

Modulift has released its subsea modular spreader beams for deep water lifting. Complying with DNV-OS-H206 – loadout, transport and installation of subsea objects, the Modulift subsea spreader beams are designed to safely hold weights up 500 tonnes. Unlike Modulift’s standard spreader beams that are manufactured using circular hollow section, the Subsea has an open section design, […]