Ernie Pierini

A new vehicle purchasing plan which will save up to 60,000 liters of fuel per year.

Wolffkran has supplied 44 cranes for the construction of 1,000,000 sq m of accommodation for pilgrims to the Islamic holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The transformer arrived on a 32 axle railway wagon. In order enable a floating crane to lift the transformer it had to be transferred almost to the edge of the quay by a SPMT.

You may know that line from the infamous sales movie Glengarry Glen Ross where Alex Baldwin plays himself. It’s a throwback sales training line from the 1960’s that manifested itself all the way to the ’80s. The problem with that line is that some people are still using it.

Just a few days ago the Department of Energy announced a ten-year plan to make wind and solar power as cheap as fossil fuels, and at least one top player in the future energy field is off to a roaring start. That would be GE. The company has just completed acquisition of a next-generation technology that lowers the cost of installing wind turbine towers, resulting in an overall savings of up to 12%.

Eleven crane operators providing U.S. government-contracted services in Afghanistan supporting U.S. Armed Forces earned Mobile Crane Operator certifications from the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) last August, thanks to training and testing services provided by National Crane Training, a division of OSTS Inc.

Crane operators in British Columbia, Canada, must have a valid operator’s certificate by 28 February 2011, warns WorkSafeBC. Without certification by 28 February operators cannot legally operate a crane in British Columbia.

Liebherr is building a factory in Pune, India that will manufacture concrete truck mixers, batching plants and tower cranes. Truck mixer manufacture is due to start shortly, with full production coming on stream by the middle of the year.

German rental company Schuch is using Grove’s first new 300 tonne GMK6300L All Terrain crane to erect the tower sections of a 2.5 MW Enercon E82 wind turbine in Mensinghausen, near Hannover. To lift the tower sections, the GMK6300L was working with 31.5 metres main boom and its maximum counterweight of 92.5 tonnes.

While tens of thousands of new truck cranes a year are sold in China there is big news at the upper end of the lifting capacity scale. Domestic manufacturers are also increasing production capacity and stepping up efforts to distribute and manufacture abroad. Alex Dahm reports