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 ($37.8 million) was converted to a profit of […]
Liebherr is to start tests on expanding the use of carbon fiber technology (CFK) in other products. The material offers high strength and low weight – up to three times lighter and offering a higher tensile strength for the same steel cross section.When used as pendant straps, this allows the crane to self-erect longer boom […]
Crane Hot Line, published by Maximum Capacity Media, has named the industry’s Top Trainers in its fourth annual recognition of corporate and professional trainers. The winners are featured in the November 2011 issue. Nominees represented a range of businesses—from crane rental companies and contractors to companies working in petrochemical and manufacturing industries, as well as […]
Terex Cranes has promoted Frank Bardonaro to the newly created position of vice president and managing director global sales. The new role is based in Europe and Bardonaro is therefore planning to relocate in the near future. He will assume full commercial responsibility for the company’s complete range of mobile cranes worldwide, working in […]
Tuesday, October 25th will be a monumental day for Sims Crane & Equipment. It marks the beginning of a very special campaign – one that could literally save lives. T-shirt design for the event We will be unveiling our 70 Ton Linkbelt model HTC-8670 – and it will look very different than the last time […]
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$ 150 million loan to Argentinean renewable energy company Impsa to support the construction of four wind farms - three in Brazil and one in Uruguay. The full cost of the schemes is put at US$ 1.4 billion, and when complete in 2014, they will provide 546 […]
Many of the machines launched at international exhibitions like ConExpo, Samoter and Smopyc at the start of this year featured new EU Stage IIIB/US Interim Tier 4 engines. The new regulations were introduced at the start of this year for 130 kW to 560 kW engines, and over the next two years the requirements will […]
A number of union employees at the Manitowoc crane plant in Manitowoc Wisconsin walked out on strike on Monday.The strike affects up to 200 employees who are members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). 600 other employees and possibly some of the IAM members, continued to work as normal. The company said […]
Mary Helen & Gill Green October 2011 marked the beginning of a huge campaign for Sims Crane & Equipment. To launch it’s 2012 Campaign for the cure, Sims Crane & Equipment unveiled its 70 Ton Linkbelt that was painted pink, and will be the ‘face’ of the campaign. Over the next year, every time the […]
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 […]
