Category: Industry News

Tadano moves back into profit

Japanese based crane and access manufacturer Tadano has issued its half year numbers for the six months to the end of September which show a return to profitability.  Revenues climbed by over 22 percent to ¥50.4 billion ($645.5 million) while last year’s net loss of ¥2.95 billion ($37.8 million) was converted to a profit of […]

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Liebherr to expand use of carbon fiber technology

Liebherr is to start tests on expanding the use of carbon fiber technology (CFK) in other products.   The material offers high strength and low weight – up to three times lighter and offering a higher tensile strength for the same steel cross section.When used as pendant straps, this allows the crane to self-erect longer boom […]

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Bob Berry of Sims Crane Wins Top Trainer Award From Crane Hotline

Crane Hot Line, published by Maximum Capacity Media, has named the industry’s Top Trainers in its fourth annual recognition of corporate and professional trainers. The winners are featured in the November 2011 issue. Nominees represented a range of businesses—from crane rental companies and contractors to companies working in petrochemical and manufacturing industries, as well as […]

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New head of global sales for Terex Cranes

  Terex Cranes has promoted Frank Bardonaro to the newly created position of vice president and managing director global sales. The new role is based in Europe and Bardonaro is therefore planning to relocate in the near future. He will assume full commercial responsibility for the company’s complete range of mobile cranes worldwide, working in […]

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Sims Crane To Unveil Pink Crane for Breast Cancer Awareness

Tuesday, October 25th will be a monumental day for Sims Crane & Equipment. It marks the beginning of a very special campaign – one that could literally save lives. T-shirt design for the event We will be unveiling our 70 Ton Linkbelt model HTC-8670 – and it will look very different than the last time […]

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RMI Releases Planned Maintenance Schedule Report

RMI Corp., Avon, Conn., has released its Planned Maintenance Schedule Report, which enables service departments and dispatchers to review future planned maintenance services for customer- and business-owned equipment. The reporting tool helps RMI’s Advantage software solution users to schedule work according to equipment workloads while improving the performance and uptime of the fleet.   “Over the […]

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JLG Announces New Accessory to Provide Enhanced Control Panel Protection for Operators

JLG Industries, Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company [NYSE:OSK] and a leading manufacturer of aerial work platforms and telescopic material handlers, today announced its plan to introduce an innovative new accessory designed to provide enhanced control panel protection for operators of its boom lift products. Developed to meet customer needs and initiatives in Europe and to […]

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United Rentals To Acquire RSC

United Rentals is to acquire RSC Equipment Rental in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at US$18 per share, or a total enterprise value of $4.2 billion, including $2.3 billion of net debt. It is the largest acquistion ever in the equipment rental market. The acquisition will combine the largest two general equipment rental firms in North […]

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Outlook Report Forecasts Rise in Investment in Equipment in 2012

Overall investment in equipment will grow by 9 percent in 2012, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation’s “2012 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook” report.    The report, which is focused on the $628 billion equipment finance sector, forecasts equipment investment and capital spending in the United States, and evaluates the effects on […]

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Manitowoc Cranes Build Wind Turbine in Four Days

Two Manitowoc cranes installed a wind tower in Cleveland, Ohio, over a four-day period earlier this year. Located outside the headquarters of Lincoln Electric, the 443-foot turbine is one of the largest urban wind towers in North America. A Manitowoc 16000 crawler crane and a Grove GMK5120B all-terrain crane were utilized to erect the 2.5 […]

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