Ernie Pierini

Raul Burger in Chile donated the use of a Grove GMK5165-2 all terrain crane for building repairs following February’s earthquake. The 165 US ton (130 tonne) capacity crane, called GMK5130-2 outside the USA,

When a contractor was charged with moving a 100 year old statue in Brecht, Belgium, he clearly didn’t have a clue what he was doing and the damage caused is likely to cost more than the entire renovation budget for the square one small part of which was the relocation of the statue.

Alongside the display are a number of meetings and seminars, most of which are open to all and all of which are free of charge.

Lift planning software can be beneficial for many areas of a crane-operating company, from owners and sales people to dispatchers and crane operators.

The new model, the 25EL is based on the 25E launched last September but is over 400kgs lighter and so better suited for applications where point loadings are critical.

A large mast climbing work platform collapsed yesterday on the State University of New York campus in Binghamton, New York. The platform comprised two twin mast rigs linked together to create a very long four mast unit with a platform in the region of 40 metres long with long cantilevers at each end.

The American Wind Association’s annual conference and exhibition May 23-26 in Dallas, TX. Wind Power 2010, which drew an estimated 20,000 attendees and 1,393 exhibitors to the Dallas Convention Center, had companies describing to ACT upcoming research and development for the market.

One worker died and another was injured Thursday in a work accident in Istanbul’s Tuzla shipyards, an area infamous for workplace fatalities, Anatolia news agency reported.

This started with the production of Liebherr’s first ship-to-shore container crane in 1967. Since 1998, rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes have been developed and manufactured in Killarney, with more than 130 RTGs now in operation throughout the world.

About now, you may be experiencing “goal withdrawal.” It’s that time of year when you begin to lose the momentum and drive you may have had on January 1. Many of you have already given up the ghost.