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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.

Goliath crane aids in Sellafield waste retrieval

Sellafield has taken an important step towards retrieving waste from a 60-year-old nuclear waste storage silo, now that a mammoth Semi Goliath crane has been installed.

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...

Expansion of OICT will increase Omani port’s container handling capacity to 1.5 million TEU
24 May, 2013 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.

Kalmar acquires Mareiport
Crane manufacturer Kalmar has acquired total ownership in the Spanish crane refurbishment and maintenance service company Mareiport, S.A.

OSHA extends certification deadline
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a federal agency charged with the enforcement of safety and health legislation, says it will extend the deadline for compliance with its new crane operator certification rules by three years to November 10, 2017.

Columbus McKinnon profits soar fivefold
Columbus McKinnon’s fourth-quarter profits soared nearly fivefold after a revaluation of its tax position more than offset earnings from its operations that were slightly weaker than analysts were expecting.

India gives go ahead for largest nuclear power plant
India’s Supreme Court has given the green light to the commissioning of the nation’s largest nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

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Learning to do business in the new Europe
22 May, 2013 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.

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.

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.

Goliath crane aids in Sellafield waste retrieval
Sellafield has taken an important step towards retrieving waste from a 60-year-old nuclear waste storage silo, now that a mammoth Semi Goliath crane has been installed.

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Charting a course to healthier profits
10 May, 2013 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.