Crane Business

Terex Corporation will acquire 65% of privately held Chinese crane manufacturer Topower.

The cold call is THE lowest percentage sales call. It’s an interruption, it’s a fight, it’s often a lie, it’s maximum sales manipulation, and it’s a rare appointment and a rarer sale. Wanna go from low to lower?

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.

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.

People are asking me: What should I do now? What are the consequences? Many people, maybe even you, are wandering and wondering what will happen next? What are the risks? What are the rewards?

The new US Cranes and Derricks standard will finally be published in the Federal Register followed by a live online chat hosted by OSHA and the US Department of Labour

Cold calling is over. The only people who don’t realize it are the people still making them. Or worse – their bosses.

Three Comansa Jie flat top tower cranes are working on an extension to the Fuijan liquefied natural gas power plant in city of Putian, China.

The 110 EC-B6 has a maximum lift capacity of 6t, which reduces to 1.5t at the maximum 55m length of the jib. The crane has an underhook height of 51.1m. Work on the bridge is now in its final phase, and the structure is expected to be completed by October this year.

I just read a pathetic sales pitch from an email where a “training company” was telling me why training fails, and offering what THEY thought was the best way to approach the process.