Opinion Pieces

Lifting equipment needs to be inspected and maintained to ensure reliability, and safety. Alex Beltrao, director of compliance at The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA), examines the three levels of inspection for lifting equipment. Lifting equipment keeps sectors including manufacturing, logistics, ports, maritime, construction, mining, quarrying and renewables operating. Add these to a plethora of […]

Following the recent acquisition of German lightweight cranes specialist, eepos, Robert Desel, CEO of Kito Crosby, spoke to Maria Hadlow about integrating the new company and the importance of maintaining relationships with customers, teams and potential acquisitions. An aging workforce and an increasing trend for industrial lifts of increasing weight and complexity are just a […]

Too much red tape and procrastination hinders progress, as the political merry-go-round proves, writes election day baby, Joel Cox. Readers won’t need reminding that we’ve just had a significant election result here in the US. As a longtime globetrotter it never ceases to amaze me just how far and wide the ripples of such political […]

As companies in the UK grapple with increased costs resulting from the 2024 Autumn Budget, investment in training must continue. This is not just to benefit the bottom line but, crucially, to ensure best practice in safety, says Ross Moloney, CEO of the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA). LEEA members in the UK are assessing […]

When most people would be contemplating retirement, the energetic Ricardo Magni founded a new company. He talks to Dan Jenkins about telehandler innovation and how Magni stays one step ahead of the competition. In religion and literature death and birth are intertwined. It was this way for Ricardo Magni, founder in 2013 of telehandler manufacturer […]

Don’t let your business mature too quickly, says Steve Napieralski, president at OZ Lifting.   If you want your business to fly, be like Peter Pan. Never Grow Up. I don’t believe my company will ever truly become an adult. In fact, I sprinkle it with fairy dust every morning to make sure that it […]

Ross Moloney, CEO of the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA), explains the benefits of being able to find relevant information to assure best practice in lifting. Libraries are wonderful things. Throughout history they have provided a font of knowledge to share, inform, educate and inspire. Andrew Carnegie, who led the expansion of the American steel […]

‘Collaboration’ is in front of ‘compete’ in the dictionary — and so it can be in business too, says Doug Stitt, president and CEO at The Caldwell Group Inc. Collaboration should never be overlooked as a component of business strategy, regardless of the size, strength, power, wealth, or reputation of the brand or product. Limited […]

Bernie Winter, of the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) Technical Services, explains the term ‘Working Load Limit’ and answers a frequently asked lifting capacity terminology question.  Every industry has its common terminology, and in lifting, a great deal of it will crop up in manuals, brochures, articles, reports and websites. It is, of course, the […]

Having a rigid in-person or remote working policy could see you missing the opportunities created by combining the two, as Joel Cox and Mike Sparks of Dellner Bubenzer explain. We hear a lot about the return of face-to-face interaction in business, largely because only now people responsible for budgets and forecasts have had a clear […]