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New workshop, new crane
Street CraneXpress supplied and installed a light crane system at the newly-refurbished Offsite Manufacture workshop of engineering firm NG Bailey.
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Rigmarine brances out in Kazakhstan
International lifting and marine specialist Rigmarine has responded to slow development in Kazakh offshore fields by branching out into mines and power plants.
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Loadshackle monitors sewer pump station cylinder removal
Dynamic Rigging Hire (DRH) supplied a 25t Wireless Loadshackle from Straightpoint and other rigging gear for the removal of a large hydraulic cylinder at a Melbourne Water sewer pump station in Australia.
Dynamic Rigging Hire (DRH) supplied a 25t Wireless Loadshackle from Straightpoint and other rigging gear for the removal of a large hydraulic cylinder at a Melbourne Water sewer pump station in Australia.
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HaiLi recommended
Corrugated roller manufacturer HaiLi has become of the first Chinese companies to install Konecranes’ CXT Uno cranes.
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Latest gantry from Enerpac offers highest capacity
Enerpac has launched the SL300, the latest model in the company’s SL series of telescoping hydraulics gantries.
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Lightweight aluminium rail jib cranes launched by EMH
Engineered Material Handling (EMH) has introduced the new AL Systems Aluminium Rail Jib Cranes, a series of lightweight cranes with spans of up to 15 feet and capacities of 250lb and 500lb.
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Cargo king
Brunnhuber Cranes Germany, part of the Teichmann Group, has delivered a 46.5m-long two-girder bridge crane with load-bearing capacity of 50t to an all-weather harbour terminal in Amsterdam.
LATEST FEATURES
The Caspian is a growth region for many lifting equipment companies. Keren Fallwell reports
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Big Issue
A robust safety culture is driving the market in the heavy lifting sector of the crane industry. Paola De Pascali reports.
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PUMPED UP
Street Crane has manufactured and installed six new overhead cranes at the expanded production facility of engineering company Hayward Tyler.
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Half-century of lifting
Pelloby is just a few months away from celebrating its 50th year in business. Paola De Pascali takes a look at the products and services they offer today and reviews their halfcentury of lifting experience.
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Renewed and re-opened
Lifting Gear Hire had been absent from the UK market for 10 years but reopenedits doors for business at the end of last year. Sally Spencer reports.
BLOGS
It’s that time of year when, for many of you reading, work takes a back-seat and we can enjoy a well-earned break over the summer period. Here in the UK we don’t have a traditional widespread shutdown in quite the same manner as in some other countries, but nevertheless I will be spending a week in early August down in Cornwall. Planned activities include watching the boats rolling in to the bay and then watching them roll out again, and risking ejection from the region by publicly layering jam and cream on my scones in the order traditionally preferred by the neighbouring county of Devon.
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UK market is alive And kicking-you Just need to look
Irecently visited the UK city of Sheffield—famous for steel, the Human League, Def Leppard, two generations of musical Cockers, and Olympian Jessica Ennis.
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Steady growth the benchmark in interesting times
Iwas in Chicago last month, for the ProMat exhibition. It was my first time in the city, and certainly for the first half of the week its soubriquet of The Windy City proved accurate, with the path around the edge of Lake Michigan being temporarily closed due to large waves charging in—one person I spoke to claimed there would be 22ft waves, although from what I saw this may have been width rather than height.
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Renting can make life easier and more efficient
As a recent housebuyer, I’ve become very aware of two things—firstly, the fact that a small flat in the south of England will cost you more than the three-bedroom semi-detached house your friend bought in the north-west, and secondly, there are advantages to both buying and renting a property.
