Site Reports

Verton’s SP30 Rotational Control Stabiliser for Spreader Bars Succeeds in Woodside’s Subsea Pipe-Laying Project. Verton’s innovative crane spreader bar stabilisation and rotational control technology successfully completed the task set by Spliethoff Group in their pipe lifting operations for Woodside’s $12.5 billion Scarborough Energy Project. Woodside Energy is developing the Scarborough natural gas field, located in the […]

ESM Energie- und Schwingungstechnik Mitsch GmbH (ESM) from Heppenheim, Germany, specialises in the field of vibration technology. The innovative rubber/metal compounds produced by ESM are used in wind energy plants all over the world and are an important part of the energy transition. Vetter Krantechnik contribute to this having supplied several ErgoLine light-weight crane systems […]

Star Platforms Support East Anglia’s Largest Mural Project ‘From Ipswich with Love’. In partnership with the Wild Walls Festival, Star Platforms has supported an ambitious public art project at the University of Suffolk, UK, facilitating what is now the largest mural in East Anglia. Covering 640sqm and entitled ‘From Ipswich with Love’ the mural was […]

Specialist lifting equipment manufacturer, Modulift is facilitating civil engineering installation works at Hinkley Point C. One milestone moment saw the 730t reactor cavity precast pool installed with Modulift underslung beams and “Big Carl,” the world’s largest crane. This marks a significant step towards the UK’s first new nuclear power station in over a generation. BYLOR, […]

A Modulift CMOD 24 has been used to lift iconic supercars at the prestigious Goodwood Festival of Speed. As an internationally renowned motorsport event, Goodwood marks a significant date in the diary for car enthusiasts, attracting around 200,000 visitors each year to its location in West Sussex, UK. The supercar lifts were carried out by […]

Japan-based lifting gear supplier, Nakamura Industry Co Ltd and its customer have successfully lifted an EMU3000 train using Modulift spreader beams at Hualien Port in Taiwan. Below-the-hook, Nakamura’s customer employed two MOD 34 spreader beams at a span of 3.5m, providing four lifting points underneath the train to evenly distribute the weight. The two spreader […]

UK-based PHL Hydraulics UK Ltd has invested in Enerpac Cube Jack technology as the company gears up for new civil engineering opportunities. It is first UK company to add the Enerpac SCJ-Series 100t cube jack system to its range of lifting systems, significantly broadening its project handling capability. PHL Hydraulics UK Ltd is an established […]

Suez, provides a flexible and sustainable waste management service for businesses across the south-east of the UK and lifting specialists, RHC Lifting Ltd, has successfully installed two fully automated handling cranes at the company’s Victoria Road waste transfer site in London. This major upgrade was accomplished over 18 months and will significantly enhance operations at […]

Casper, Phillips & Associates Inc (CP&A) has designed a new trolley, mast, and platform for painting airplanes at a large aerospace manufacturer coordinating with the manufacturer’s systems integrator and electrical engineering team. CP&A accepted a scope of work to replace an existing three-rail stacker crane, including full mechanical and structural design services. The company carried […]

The Caldwell Group Inc. has delivered a custom system for rotating a track section during manufacture of the world’s most powerful telescope. Caldwell is one of the several businesses based in Rockford, Illinois, USA,  including milling specialist, Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc, that is delivering various scopes of work to The Giant Magellan Telescope, an international […]