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The rise and rise of the scissor lift
In this issue of Around The Warehouse we talk to Mark Yarnold, General Manager of Snorkel UK, about the growing market for the scissor lift.
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Learning to do business in the new Europe
Faced with the ongoing eurozone crisis, crane manufacturers are quickly coming to terms with an uncertain, unpredictable, and often volatile market coupled with the specter of shrinking profit...
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Oregon power plant could double in size
The developers of a natural gas-fired power plant planned for Oregon have revealed the $800 million facility could be expanded to twice its original size as demand for power increases.
The developers of a natural gas-fired power plant planned for Oregon have revealed the $800 million facility could be expanded to twice its original size as demand for power increases.
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Tadano to invest $10 million in first Thai crane components facility
Japanese hydraulic-crane manufacturer Tadano has announced plans to invest Bt310 million ($10 million) in the company's first manufacturing facility for crane components in Thailand.
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OrbitaIngenieria launches OCR system for gantry cranes
Process control and artificial vision technology specialist OrbitaIngenieriahas launched an optical character recognition (OCR) system to automate freight container identification and damage inspection during vessel loading and unloading at port terminals.
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Minister reveals plans to expand Beirut Port
Beirut’s caretaker Public Works and Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi has unveiled plans to expand and modernize the Port of Beirut.
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Expansion of OICT will increase Omani port’s container handling capacity to 1.5 million TEU
The Port of Sohar in the Al Batinah Region of Oman has held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of its US$130 million container terminal expansion project.
LATEST FEATURES
In this issue of Around The Warehouse we talk to Mark Yarnold, General Manager of Snorkel UK, about the growing market for the scissor lift.
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Q&A With…
S. C. Bhatia, Managing Director, Safex Electromech.Hoist Magazine talks to S. C. Bhatia, Managing Director of Safex Electromech about the opportunities and challenges facing the Asian crane industry.
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Learning to do business in the new Europe
Faced with the ongoing eurozone crisis, crane manufacturers are quickly coming to terms with an uncertain, unpredictable, and often volatile market coupled with the specter of shrinking profit margins. Hoist looks at how manufacturers are coming to terms with doing business in the new Europe.
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Ensuring precision with radio remote controls
The Konecranes overhead and monorail cranes at Tasmanian brewer J Boag & Son have been fitted with radio remote controls to ensure safe precision lifting of loads by operators.
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Taking control: survival and innovation
It has often been considered that when the economy sneezes, the market for controls inevitably catches a cold. However, this resilient sector continues to grow and, in many cases, prosper, despite the challenging economic landscape.
BLOGS
If there is indeed a tide in the affairs of men, then port operators appear determined to take this tide at the flood and, should fortune smile, chart their course to a healthier profit margin. In this month’s issue of Hoist we cast a nautical gaze at the rise of Maersk's new Triple E, Super Post-Panamax, container vessel.
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Have a giant in every port
There was a wealth of activity in the dockside market last month, and since the start of the year. The opportunities in this market for the hoist manufactures is only set to grow as more ports join the list of those undergoing upgrades and expansions. The arrival of the giant dockside cranes at London’s newest port, London Gateway, is a clear signal for what is to come.
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Material handling matters to Europe
For the last four years, much of European industry has been in the doldrums, stifled first by the global financial crisis, and then, for many economies, by problems with sovereign debt. While the politics of austerity followed by many more successful nations over recent years may balance national accounts in the short term, it is unclear whether they have helped or, through compounding a stagnant investment environment, hindered business development. Our industry though, despite a mood of pessimism in some quarters, shows signs of bouncing back well from the crisis. In the latest Eurostat figures on material handling as a whole, collected by the European manufacturer's association, the FEM, thereare signs that, up to 2011, the industry was rebounding well.
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Resolving a crisis
As another challenging year comes to a close, 2012 seems to have shaped up fairly well for the overhead lifting industry. With some companies reporting record profits and others a stronger than expected rebound, even while sales fell, finally the fallout from the global financial crisis is somehow starting to look less worrisome. Having said that no-one is expecting 2013 to be much easier. Although capacity utilisation for many manufacturers is still heading towards the magical 80 per cent figure, a leisurely pace has slowed to a crawl, and now the 80 per cent figure is expected nearer 2015 than many expected.
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Steering the ship
Here at the offices at World Market Intelligence I have been bouncing ideas off colleagues about the best ways to ensure our content is relevant, timely and targeted squarely at our reader base.
