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  A 40t double girder Goliath crane on London’s Oxford Street, which has been in service for three months, is the 10th Street Crane installation on the Crossrail project, a new railway being built in southeast England. The crane will be lifting spoil skips and lowering tunnel segments and other pre-cast elements for the Crossrail […]

  Lifting solutions and mini crane hire company, GGR Group, has completed work on a long-term project to help refurbish one of Glasgow city centre’s landmark high rise buildings, St Andrews House. The 17 storey tower on West Nile Street, originally built in 1963, has been transformed from a dated office building into a brand […]

Clark Material Handling Co., Lexington, Ky., announces Rob Smith has been promoted to the position of marketing supervisor, reporting directly to Bo Maslanyk, vice president of sales and marketing. In this new position, Smith will be responsible to supervise, direct and oversee the marketing, advertising and graphic design functions of the company. He will be […]

EnKon Systems, Walled Lake, Mich., has manufactured an electric belt drive scissor lift table that provides static positioning indefinitely to +/- .01 inches. The electric belt drive lift also offers precision control to +/- .06 inches, which can be improved with an encoder. This specific system consists of a portable electric belt drive lift table […]

In a continued effort to meet these expectations Starke Material Handling of Ontario has added an AC Electric Walkie Stacker Reach Truck to its range of Lift Maxx stackers and pallet trucks. The ESR30ACX Stacker Reach’s compact design is ideal for operation in narrow aisles with step-less speed control for smooth, consistent speed; a vertical, […]

Iowa Mold Tooling Co. Inc. (IMT), Garner, Iowa, has released its new and improved lineup of TireHand tire manipulators, which enable customers to efficiently and safely install and rotate the massive tires on mining and construction equipment. IMT has added two new TireHand models and redesigned previous offerings to meet customer needs for more capacity […]

Alliance Scale, Canton, Mass., has introduced a heavy-duty, portable crane scale with a wireless remote control for a wide range of material-handling applications. The Alliance/CAS IE Series crane scale features an aluminum die-cast case, an easy to read 1.1-inch LED or LCD display, and function keys for power, zero, tare, and hold.  The wireless remote […]

  Konecranes will supply nine rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes to the Bolloré Group MPS Container Terminal in Tema, Ghana and Benin Container Terminal in Cotonou, Benin. The parties have agreed not to disclose the value of the orders. “This contract is a result of a long term relationship,” said Antoine Bosquet, Konecranes sales director, port […]

  Swiss firm Grisoni-Zaugg SA has installed seven suspended cranes at its new machine maintenance shop. The lifting equipment was supplied by Verlinde distributor Stephan SA, who provided cranes of 5t and 10t capacity with 6m to 17m spans. Verlinde Eurobloc VT2 HPR electric wire rope hoists are fitted to four 5t cranes and Eurobloc […]

  Italian access equipment supplier CTE has launched a video about its new truck-mounted aerial platform, the ZED 20.2 H, highlighting its ease of use for working at height on a daily basis with 300kg of loading capacity in the whole working area. To the theme of its corporate message—Work Becomes Easy—the video lasts two […]