Ernie Pierini

Manitowoc is showing the new 65 ton Grove RT765E-2 Rough Terrain crane, along with a range of other new products at a series of opens days – Crane Expo 2010- at its Shady Grove plant in Pennsylvania.

Crews at the Port of Vancouver are helping move some extra-large packages: oil modules weighing 85 tons. The equipment, which arrived Monday, is bound for the Kearl Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada, where it will be assembled and used to extract oil from sand.

Caterpillar and Solimec have confirmed their plan to jointly develop a range of foundation cranes. The agreement follows the launch at Bauma of the 65 tonne Soilmec SC-65 lattice boomed crawler crane which was designed and built in collaboration with CAT.

When I say “pizza” what words come to mind? What images come to mind? What tastes come to mind? What restaurants come to mind? What delivery service comes to mind? What toppings come to mind? Pretty interesting questions. And you have immediate answers. In fact, you may be reaching for the phone right now.

Like so many of the world’s economies, business life in Russia was brought to a virtual halt in October 2008 by the global financial crisis. Funding for construction projects dried up.

International Tower Cranes 2011 is a new top-level one day conference and networking dinner for tower crane users and manufacturers worldwide. ITC 2011 will be held in central London, UK on 12 May 2011.

A man was seriously injured last week in Choctaw, Oklahoma after a boom section landed on him. The accident happened on a bridge repair project when a lattice crane boom section fell on him. The section was being lifted by a 360 degree tracked excavator when it slipped, struck the man on the head and then pinned him to the ground.

The scaffold was being erected by a scaffold company called Red Lion, next to the Canon Street railway station near St Pauls in the City of London. Our corresponded says: “One man was wearing a harness but was not using it the other on the scaffold had no harness or hard hat.

A 240 ton All Terrain crane went over late last week at a Chevron Refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi, due to a lack of communication and full walk around daily inspection. The initial reports state that the crane’s outriggers had been retracted on the left hand side of the crane by a second shift, in order to take them out of a roadway during the night.

A mobile crane tipped over on Wednesday at the Yeongam Formula One circuit in South Korea damaging part of a main grandstand. Korea is due to stage the grand prix on the 24th October but was not ready for the standard pre-race approval inspection normally due 90 days prior to the race. A last minute inspection is scheduled for October 11th.