Under the Hook

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

CAF Rolling Stock UK produces trains for the UK market. The bodies, bogies and engines are manufactured at CAF facilities in Spain and France for assembly at its plant in Llanwern near Newport, Wales. Clients include Transport for Wales, which recently commissioned 180 new diesel trains from CAF. The Welsh facility runs two 25t cranes […]

A new modular system from Britlift is helping improve productivity for bathroom pod lifts in London. Rainbird Crane Services works predominantly in central London, specialising in lifts onto high rise buildings of prefab and modular units. It also has a machinery moving division, lifting and shifting industrial and mechanical equipment, as well as carrying out […]

The Caldwell Group Inc is manufacturing the spreader beam component of Vita Inclinata Technologies Inc.’s load navigator system. The propulsion (fan) driven product is a remotely operated, suspended load system that allows crane operation crews to precisely (to one degree) control and orient loads without guylines or being in the critical path of the load. […]

Japanese-based lifting gear company, Nakamura Industry Co. Ltd. and their customer have successfully lifted a 21t fire truck using Modulift spreader beams from a port in Tokyo to a nearby island. Below-the-hook, Nakamura’s customer employed three Modulift spreader beams; one MOD 34 at a span of 6.5m attached using wire rope slings to the crane […]

Allelys, one of the largest transport and heavy lift companies in the UK, used a Modulift MOD 250 spreader beam below-the-hook of a LG1550 crane, to lift a Yankee paper dryer in Barrow-in-Furness. These huge pressure vessels remove excess moisture during the paper making process and are the beating heart of machines used to make tissue paper. […]