Sales and service partner IBS Industrie- u. Baumaschinen Service GmbH once again delivered a Sennebogen duty cycle crane to the customer Karl Mossandl GmbH & Co. The Lower Bavarian company … Read more
14,400 kilometres, 53 days and 4 different ships: it took a few strokes of logistical genius to transport a mobile crane to its destination on Earth’s southernmost continent. This is … Read more
UK crane rental firm Ainscough Crane Hire has extended its fleet with the addition of a Liebherr MK140 mobile tower crane. The five-axle model has a maximum lifting capacity of … Read more
Specialist rental company SECH is using its Kobelco CKE3000G crawler crane on its first major lifting and foundations contract in Portsmouth Harbour, having arrived at the site by barge in … Read more
Orders of this magnitude are far from normal in the crane industry. Felbermayr from Wels, Austria, has ordered ten Demag® AC 45 City cranes, the first two of which have … Read more
Marc Peperkamp, the General Manager of Dutch company Baetsen Kraanverhuur, is clear about one thing: As far as he is concerned, the Demag brand represents innovative solutions and uncompromising engineering … Read more
Magdeburg-based lifting and transport service provider Breithaupt & Philipp has had a Demag® AC 30 and two Demag AC 40 hard at work for years and has now decided to place … Read more
In 2019, Tadano Ltd. celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding. As part of the commemorations, Tadano donated the third crane to Easter Island, Chile, where they had a connection … Read more
Contractor Fairbrother selected the Potain self-erecting crane for its work in the Australian state of Tasmania. The contractor benefited from the crane’s easy setup and compact size. Australian contractor Fairbrother … Read more
Crane Concept BV is now the first crane service provider in the Netherlands to have put a Demag® AC 45 City into operation. And all while managing to couple that … Read more
Albrecht Autokran GbR based in Etting, Bavaria, has decided to buy a Liebherr LTM 1060-3.1 mobile crane. Its 48-metre telescopic boom enables the crane to be more economical for jobs … Read more
North Germany-based crane and heavy haulage contractor Wille Krane GmbH has expanded its fleet with a Liebherr LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane. The new 450-tonne crane will replace an LTM 1350-6.1 … Read more
After the “separation” with Demag cranes, Terex Cranes are now focusing on its own line of products range for the North American market. A rough-terrain and tower crane will make … Read more
HTC Wolffkran, the UK sales, rental and service subsidiary of Switzerland-headquartered tower crane manufacturer Wolffkran, has changed its name to Wolffkran Ltd. The company has also announced it is planning … Read more
Tennessee, USA-based lifting, heavy rigging, and heavy hauling specialist Barnhart Crane and Rigging has announced it is to acquire Viant Crane. Viant provides crane, rigging, logistics and transport services to … Read more
Dutch international heavy lift specialist Mammoet has completed the acquisition of fellow international heavy lifting and transport specialist ALE, effective January 8, 2020. The businesses will now operate as one … Read more
Australian company RAR Group says the all-terrain crane has the best lifting capacity of any six-axle crane. The Grove GMK6400 is the biggest crane in RAR Group’s fleet. Since receiving … Read more
Sotiris Kanaris visits Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Cranes’s (HSC) Nagoya plant and learns about the company’s vision. With a site area that spans 110,000sqm and a floor area of 46,000sqm, … Read more
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Cranes (HSC) hosted the fourth edition of its bi-annual dealer conference in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, in November. Representatives of 17 dealers, including five new dealers, participated … Read more
UAE-headquartered Al Faris worked on the Expo 2020 Stadium in Dubai, UAE, lifting and installing 42 structural steel elements for the construction of the UAE pavilion structure. For the first … Read more
With the addition of a GMK5250L all-terrain crane and a TMS9000-2 truck crane, the construction company can now perform two-hook operations. Working with Manitowoc for over 60 years now, Irving … Read more
A Potain Igo 22 has been successfully installed on a job site in the centre of Avignon, a historic city in southeastern France’s Provence region. Access to the job site … Read more
Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (or KCM), of Tokyo, Japan and Australian Crane & Machinery Pty., Ltd. (or ACM), of Melbourne in Australia have mutually agreed to terminate their dealership … Read more
Scottish oilfield equipment provider WellConnection IOS has taken delivery of the first 80-tonne Terex RT1080 Rough Terrain crane in the UK from Crowland Cranes. The RT1080 – the first crane … Read more
UK rental company Select Plant Hire has taken delivery of eight Liebherr crawler cranes. The order includes four 60-tonne LTR 1060 telescopic crawler, three 100-tonnes LTR 1100 telescopic crawler and … Read more
A boom truck crane overturned onto a house while removing a tree from the back yard of the property in Hamilton Township, near Trenton, New Jersey on Friday. The crane, … Read more
A Terex Comedil CTT 561-A20 flat-top tower crane lost its jib and counter jib on a site near Helsinki airport in Finland yesterday. The flat-top tower crane was operated by … Read more
Peacefully and surrounded by his loving family, Jay Kendall Shiffler passed away on Thursday, December 26, 2019. He was 67. His Life Story Jay was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on … Read more
Entrec Corporation in Canada has agreed to sell its Canadian crane rental business to Sterling Crane. The two companies signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition at US$21.2 million. Entrec … Read more
Over 35 units of tower cranes by Zoomlion has completed lifting operations for the Pingtan road-rail bridge project, the world’s longest road-rail cross-sea bridge. Zoomlion set a new benchmark in … Read more