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Rental Equipment Register magazine (RER) has announced its 2012 "RER 100," a listing of rental companies ranked highest in rental volume during 2011. Leading this year's list: United Rentals, Greenwich, Conn.; RSC Equipment Rental, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Sunbelt Rentals, Fort Mill, S.C.; Hertz Equipment Rental Corp., Park Ridge, N.J.; and Home Depot Rentals, Atlanta, Ga. Companies […]

  UK-based RUD Chains Ltd.‘s latest radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has been shortlisted for the British Construction Industry Product Innovation Award 2012. RUD‘s RFID technology enables users to track, identify, inspect and trace equipment embedded with a chip giving a unique identification number which is then tracked through a RUD-ID-easy-check reader. The reader captures […]

  Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH was awarded the State Prize Clean Technology Austria 2012, in recognition of its hydraulic hybrid drive for cranes and construction machinery. Liebherr’s patented hybrid drive won in the category “Energy & Efficiency”. The awards ceremony took place in the Vienna Hofburg for the third time. Since 2008 the State Prize is […]

The French equipment manufacturer Manitou Group is holding a totally new event with all its partners in Punta Umbria in the south of Spain from May 29 to June 1. Called "The Festival," the event is bringing more than 1,000 guests from 80 countries together to discuss the Group's outlook, and define how to "Grow […]

Bishop Lifting Products, Houston, Texas, has won the 2012 Houston Area Safety Council and Houston Business Roundtable's Silver Safety Excellence Award in the Crane & Rigging Support category. The category addresses the lifting arena, from transportation, matting, and suppliers of rigging and lifting products, to crane vendors and operators.

  Demag Cranes has received an order for eight fully automated process cranes and a warehouse management system from Chinese company Anhui Shanying Paper Industry Co. Ltd. The cranes will be used in what will become the largest paper-roll shipping store in the world, Demag said, constructed at Shanying Paper’s headquarters in Maanshan, China. The […]

Columbus McKinnon Corp., Amherst, N.Y., released the high capacity Yale LodeKing electric wire rope hoist. With capacities from 15 to 60 tons, the LodeKing wire rope hoist combines durability with the higher capacities needed for applications, such as energy and power generation, government and aerospace, agriculture and logging, marine and transportation, and general manufacturing and […]

Clark Material Handling Co., Lexington, Ky., appointed Manuel Sierra as an international service engineer. He will provide field service technical support to the company’s dealer organization, end users and customers throughout North and South America, as well as administration of the company’s warranty policies. Sierra, who speaks fluent English, Spanish and Portuguese, will dedicate much […]

Presenter Paul Boeckman, vice president of engineering, the Crosby Group, has urged the Canadian crane community “to stay updated with new developments in the industry and meet others in the field” at MCM Events’ Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) Canada. “Crosby was involved in last year’s conference,” he adds. “There were good topics, and it […]

  Kaliningrad, Russia-based crane manufacturer OAO Baltkran produced its 100th crane for the nuclear industry alone earlier this year for the machine hall at the Novovoronezhskaya Nuclear Power Station. The 500 tonne unit will primarily assist in the assembly of turbine plant and generator stators but will also handle other heavy loads. The crane is […]