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Kalmar has supplied Tarmac Building Products (TBP), one of the UK’s largest construction manufacturers, with a new fleet of 13 Kalmar medium forklifts. The fleet comprises eight Kalmar DCG100-6, three Kalmar DCG140-6, and two Kalmar DCG120-6 forklifts. Each type of forklift is designed to offer benefits for specific environments, making them ideal for loading the […]

GGR Group recently sold a G20 pick and carry mini-crane to Kimberly-Clark, which manufacturers products under major personal care brands like Kleenex, Andrex, and Huggies.  The G20 crane was delivered to Kimberly-Clark’s Kent depot and will be used in the company’s plant.  Five Kimberly-Clark staff completed familiarisation training with GGR Group trainer Adrian Richardson. Richardson […]

Crown Equipment Corp. recently completed construction of a new office building at its global headquarters in New Bremen, Ohio. The 44,400-sq.-ft. building is located on the site of the historic Boesel Opera House, which was damaged by a fire in February 2012. The new facility houses members of the company’s marketing, sales, service and branch operations […]

Laguna Crane Services of Texas reports it is using Straightpoint force measurement, load monitoring and suspended weighing load cells on a variety of projects from small industrial applications to those involving large mobile and crawler cranes with multiple chain falls. Laguna provides training, inspection, service and parts for many different lifting and moving technologies. Owner […]

The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) announces it will launch a new conference at the Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium on June 23-24, 2015. The event will combine two days of presentations and networking for lifting industry professionals working with overhead cranes, hoists and rigging equipment in onshore, offshore and marine applications. The event also boasts a tabletop […]

Ace World Companies continues to raise its profile in the marine industry after exhibiting at the International WorkBoat Show & Annual Conference in New Orleans, La. Ken Land, national sales manager at Ace World Companies, noted port engineers, vice presidents of ship repair yards, independent vessel owners, boat builders and representatives from port authorities were […]

Douglas Battery recently introduced two new battery chargers for industrial lift truck applications: the Douglas Legacy Neo charger for applications where space is limited, and the Douglas Legacy Insight HF charger that enables opportunity charge for a wide range of batteries. “We have expanded our line of chargers to better serve the demand from the battery-powered lift truck market,” […]

Crown Equipment Corp and Momatt, an authorized distributor of Crown lift trucks, today announced the first Demonstrated Performance (DP) Service Training program for forklift service technicians in Mexico. Initial projections are that more than 250 service technicians will complete a two-week training program within the first year. Training will be at Momatt’s Toluca facility, which opened […]

Morse Manufacturing Co. has announced the introduction of its DrumTumblr, a labor-saving way to mix contents inside a drum. The "corner-Over-Corner" tumbling corrects settling and homogenizes contents. Prevent hazards and worker exposures by not having to open drums for mixing. Plus, drums are easily and securely loaded and unloaded into DrumTumblr with a hoist or […]

NACCO Materials Handling Group (NMHG), the parent company of Hyster Company and Yale Materials Handling Corporation, has promoted Chuck Pascarelli to president, americas, effective Jan. 1, 2015. In this new position, Pascarelli will oversee all sales, marketing, manufacturing, finance, and pricing functions for the Hyster and Yale product lines, as well as their distribution networks in the […]