Scheuerle provided a mix of transport solutions to Ambau in Cuxhaven for the delivery of offshore wind turbine transition pieces. Ambau manufactures steel towers and foundation structures at Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the River Elbe on Germany's North Sea coast. These include giant transition pieces, designed to connect offshore wind turbines to their foundations. […]
International Powered Access Federation estimates the worldwide rental fleet for powered access equipment to be around 950,000 units. The U.S. aerial work platform rental market experienced robust growth in 2012 (+6%) to reach approximately $6.6 billion, according to the IPAF US Powered Access Rental Market Report 2013. While rental companies kept fleet sizes steady in […]
Bobbi Revels wears many hats at Sims Crane. She doesn’t only lend an ear to her friends she also lends a helping hand to anyone who needs it. Although her official title is executive administrative assistant to President Steve Stodghill, it’s obvious she finds it easy to go out of her way to help […]
JLG Industries, Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company [NYSE:OSK] and a leading manufacturer of aerial work platforms and telescopic material handlers, today announced Brad Nelson has joined the executive team as global vice president of marketing. With more than two decades of experience in marketing, product strategy, and business management, Nelson most recently served […]
The R. Baker & Son team transported the cross from St. Peter’s Church to the museum after a ceremony attended by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and recovery workers. This summer, prior to the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks,R. Baker & Son lowered several large artifacts from Ground Zero in the National September […]
Check out the fast motion video where crews from Sims Crane are at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, FL as they "top out" the buck hoist work elevator on the construction site as the hospital's addition rises to it's final stages.
Joe Lane, an inspector and surveyor for Cairo Marine Service, Wickliffe, Ky., provided the following information in the Fall 2011 newsletter of the Crane Certification Association of America(CCAA). Note the CCAA will hold its fall meeting Oct. 16-18, 2011 in Orlando, Fla. There are a number of apps presently available for rigging. Most of these are for stage […]
Work began in November on the new Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Veterans Park on US 301 in Tampa. In the center of the memorial is a solid granite piece with the names of 155 soldiers from Hillsborough County that were killed in the war, and that is flanked by two US Army helicopters; a Cobra […]
Mammoet has successfully tested one of its new PTC Super Heavy Lift cranes with a test load of 3,520 tonnes at 33 metres radius. International lifting specialist Mammoet has successfully tested one of its new PTC Super Heavy Lift cranes with a test load of 3,520 tonnes at 33 metres radius. The crane – a PTC140 […]
Louisiana, USA based crane and access rental company H&E Equipment Services has reported a strong third quarter that has put it back in to the black for both the quarter and the year to date. Total revenues for the nine months to the end of September are up 26 percent to $503.5 million, while rental in […]
