Manitex has taken the first orders for its new 50155S crane equipped with the ability to break the 200 foot (61m) barrier with a powered boom and single piece jib, the company said.
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Terex reported a quarterly net loss of $77.7 million, compared to profit of $237.1 million reported last year.
Another self erecting tower crane went over this week in Switzerland, no one was injured in either case.
Crane manufacturer Tadano has released a statement to customers regarding counterfeit cranes, warning that counterfeit Tadano products have been appearing on the market worldwide.
A self erecting tower crane tipped over at a building site in Oetwil, near Zurich, Switzerland yesterday there were no injuries.
A second person has died following the collapse of a stage being constructed for a Madonna concert in France.
The crane accident in liver pool last week is now being cleaned-up.
The proposed regulations will require employers who use ‘conventional’ tower cranes (i.e tower cranes that are assembled on site; the type involved in the high profile incidents) on construction sites to notify certain information about the crane to HSE
A metro rail construction site is seen after several cranes crashed in New Delhi, July 13. Three cranes crashed Monday while trying to lift a steel girder that had fallen at New Delhiās metro rail construction site, a new blow to the project a day after the first accident left six people dead.
The Texas Street bridge has been reopened after a crane did not clear the first truss of the bridge, causing the arm of the boom to become detached and fall on top of a Nissan Altima traveling behind it