Ernie Pierini

As a winner of the 2009 Crane Hot Line Top Trainer award in the Corporate Category, Mike Patten, a trainer with the Training and Safety department at Southwest Industrial Rigging (SWIR), Phoenix, Ariz., was awarded a $1,250 scholarship to use for educational purposes.

What will be “the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere” will generate up to 420 MW of electricity – enough energy to power around 220000 “average” homes each year.

What will be “the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere” will generate up to 420 MW of electricity – enough energy to power around 220000 “average” homes each year.

The new line encompasses single beam, rubber-tired gantry cranes. The launch gave attendees the chance to see a new 70 ton SB crane in action.

RESIDENTS IN an urbanisation in San Pedro del Pinatar are literally dicing with death every time they go for a swim in their pool after an aging and creaking crane from a neighbouring building site has become stuck directly above their communal area.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a new rule addressing the use of cranes and derricks in construction.

Four Potain special application tower cranes are working on a major hydropower dam project in Turkey.

A roundup of the latest transmitter and receiver products in the constantly expanding world of remote controls

Alert to the construction industry to remind those working on projects where tower cranes are in use of the importance of the safe erection, operation, maintenance and dismantling of such cranes. This alert has been prompted by a number of serious incidents involving tower cranes in recent years.

Mr Finn Løkken, managing director of Cramo AS, Norway, said; “Nordic Crane Group is one of the leading mobile crane suppliers in Scandinavia, and this new cooperation agreement will offer our customers an even better service and product range in the Nordic region.

With an average capacity of more than 1,000 tonnes per hour, the 4-rope grab crane unloaded a Panamax vessel, carrying 62,324 tonnes of coal, in 61 hours, 2 minutes.