Crane Business

Those four towering construction cranes dotting the horizon at Campbell County Memorial Hospital are doing the heavy lifting on a $68 million expansion that includes a two-story medical wing, three-and-a-half-level parking garage and a new helipad.

Jubail, Saudi Arabia based ACT – Arabian Consolidated Trading, has purchased a 1,200 tonn Liebherr LTM11200-9.1 the first in the kingdom and the largest telescopic crane to be based there. It becomes the flagship of the company’s 100 crane fleet

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Bigge Crane and Rigging, one of the largest engineered heavy lift and rigging firms in the U.S., is assisting in the construction of a new USTAR facility at the University of Utah.

JCrane out of Covington, Ohio has been given the honor of assisting in the building of Arena North apartments in Columbus Ohio, with the erecting a pair of tower cranes, a Koenig K72 and a Koening K45T, the estimated duration of the project is approximately 8 months with 4 months spent on the stick framing buildings.

The dress code is severe: hard hat, overalls, safety vest and glasses. Security clearance and a union card are a must. The restaurant, a Subway franchise.

This is an important project, and we needed a crane that not only has the necessary lift capacity, but also can transport loads carefully and precisely within a confined area,” he said.

The court agreed on the bankruptcy of the companies while Spierings Kranen will remain in business although it is shedding a large number of its 140 employees.

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.