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  Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd. has secured an order for the supply of four Megamax ship-to-shore container cranes to Associated British Ports, Southampton, UK. The order comes on the back of a new UK ship-to-shore productivity record which was set by a Liebherr megamax ship-to-shore crane at the Port of Southampton, on 17 October when […]

  At its Vernouillet, France, production plant, Verlinde SA has introduced an environmental management system in compliance with standard ISO14001-2004. Based on a four-stage procedure (planning, service enhancement, data collection, inspections) it is designed to introduce and promote integration of environmental criteria as early as product design and manufacture; reduction of consumption of energy and […]

Briggs Equipment, has named Grant Johanson manager of BE Fleet, the company’s industrial equipment fleet management consulting service.     In his role, Johanson will provide strategic program leadership and oversight for the BE Fleet consulting team. He’ll also work with individual customers to find fleet asset, maintenance, operator, and safety management options that help achieve […]

CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2014 has surpassed the 2-million mark in record time for net square feet of sold exhibit space, with more than a year to go until opening day. The show is 75 percent ahead in exhibitor count and 33 percent ahead in exhibit space compared to the last show cycle at a similar time.   […]

For readers looking for more information in deep-cycle battery technology, the first set of Trojan Tips educational videos is now available on the Trojan Battery Co. website.   “Trojan developed the Trojan Tips video tutorials to educate the public on how to enhance the performance and longevity of deep-cycle batteries that power a variety of […]

Magnetek, Menomonee Falls, Wis., has expanded international distribution of its radio control products in China. The company has signed a distribution agreement with Beijing Asiastars Electronic Technologies Co., LTD (AET). Under terms of the agreement, AET will serve as the exclusive distributor of Magnetek’s radio control products to the material handling and mobile hydraulic industries […]

Magnetek, Menomonee Falls, Wis., has expanded international distribution of its radio control products in China. The company has signed a distribution agreement with Beijing Asiastars Electronic Technologies Co., LTD (AET). Under terms of the agreement, AET will serve as the exclusive distributor of Magnetek’s radio control products to the material handling and mobile hydraulic industries […]

In October, Cargotec received a large order to deliver MacGregor RoRo cargo access equipment for four 45,000 dwt container/RoRo vessels for Italian container shipping specialist, Ignazio Messina & C. S.p.A. The ships will be built at the STX Jinhae shipyard in Korea and the MacGregor RoRo equipment will be delivered between the last quarter of […]

Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. (AME), Rockford, Ill., introduces the fourth-generation RLI Series rod locks. The new pneumatic series RLI (ISO 6431) metric rod lock has been developed as a solution to control problems inherent to pneumatics—over travel, drifting, bouncing, and reverse traveling. The AMLOK Power-Off rod lock can be mounted to a cylinder, or […]

Crown Equipment Corp., New Bremen, Ohio, earned CEVA’s Americas Supplier of the Year award as part of the third-party logistics provider’s annual Global Supplier Awards. CEVA is one of the world’s leading supply chain management companies. CEVA honored Crown in recognition of “its long-term investment in its current global business strategy with CEVA and strong […]