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Columbus McKinnon Corp. has acquired privately-owned Unified Industries Inc. (Unified). Unified designs, manufacturers, and markets overhead light rail workstations primarily used in automotive and other industrial applications. Unified is headquartered in Howell, Mich. and had sales of $12.4 million in 2013. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to Columbus McKinnon's earnings in fiscal year […]

John Deere Power Systems has introduced John Deere PowerSight, a technology solution for John Deere diesel engines installed in OEM equipment.  John Deere PowerSight features four John Deere technologies: the JDLink machine monitoring system, machine health prognostics, remote diagnostics and programming, and the PowerAssist app, which integrate seamlessly to help customers manage their John Deere-powered OEM equipment. […]

Joystick and control box manufacturer C-Tech Industries LLC has announced the winner of the refurbished scissor lift stocked with C-Tech components. Theros Equipment, Sterling, Va., won the 2005 refurbished SkyJack 3219 outfitted with the following C-Tech components; control box and joystick, battery charger, decals and more. The refurbished Skyjack scissor lift was showcased at The Rental […]

Oerlikon Fairfield unveiled its patent-pending hybrid electric drivetrain technology last week at ConExpo/Con-Agg. The technology is a complete series electric driveline system from engine to wheel and features an innovative energy recovery system. It is the first of its type to be designed by a company specializing in drive solutions.  Major components of the system […]

Crown Equipment's Crown ES/ET 4000 series of stacker forklifts earned a GOOD DESIGN Award from the Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The company now has received a Good Design Award 13 times in total. In this year’s competition, more than 700 new […]

Terex Material Handling announced an order for 12 20-ton, double-girder Demag overhead cranes and eight Demag DH monorail rope hoists from AZZ Inc. “Demag hoists have a proven track record with AZZ. They are safe, reliable and durable in our processing environment,” says Ross Bamburg, manufacturing engineer. “This order clearly reconfirms AZZ’s confidence in our ability […]

Hoist UK announces that Wayne Ridgeley has joined its technical team as design/project engineer. He has been in the lifting industry all of his working life, having been previously employed by Aabacus Cranes, The Rossendale Group, Camlok, and more recently with Stahl Cranes, working predominantly within the explosion-proof (ATEX) equipment sector of the industry. “Having […]

The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation  has released the February 2014 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI). Overall, confidence in the equipment finance market is 63.3, the second highest index in two years and off slightly from last month’s two-year index high of 64.9.  The MCI-EFI is designed to collect leadership data, the index reports a […]

Hoist UK had added lifting industry veteran Wayne Ridgeley to its technical team as a design and project engineer. Ridgeley has most recently been employed by Stahl Cranes, working predominantly within the explosion proof equipment sector of the industry.  Hoist UK director, Paul Jordan comments: “Having Wayne join our team is a major asset for […]

J D Neuhaus has launched its new Profi 75 TI and Profi 100 TI hoists, offering SWL capacities of 75 and 100 tonnes respectively. Existing products in the Profi range cover lift capacities from 250kg up to a full 60 tonnes, ideally suited to engineering environments. The latest introductions, which incorporate savings in energy requirements […]