Technology

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC, (SRNS) Aiken, S.C., operates with an award-winning safety culture, and the Savannah River Site (SRS) houses one of the world’s most diverse nuclear storage facilities.…

Spydercrane has installed the iVISOR mentor load moment indication system, the gSENS LWG 154 cable reel, and the compact pSENS DAVS pressure transducer in its URW375 mini crawler crane.

Manitowoc has launched a new feature, called the Boom Raise System (BRS), for the 400t 16000 Wind Attachment, designed to raise longer Wind Attachment boom lengths.

Prompted in part by the threat that regulatory scrutiny of mobile cranes could bleed over to overhead cranes, many steel mills and other high production industries are gearing up their lifting equipment operator training programs.

Wind forces acting on loads during lifting operations have led to serious accidents in the wind turbine industry.

Crane & Rigging Hot Line is proud to announce the winners of Top Trainer 2012.

Potain supplied two cranes, including a giant MD 1100, to work on the recently-completed, record breaking, Russky Island Bridge in Vladivostok.

There were mixed emotions at SAIE 2012 exhibition in Bologna as tower cranes were nowhere to be seen, but loader cranes and mobile cranes were out in force.

One of the biggest building projects in Europe is currently employing nine Liebherr tower cranes in a crowded, highly dense area. On the new Karolinska Solna University Hospital, four more tower cranes will be delivered over the next 12 months.

On behalf of Lloyd-Werft Bremerhaven AG, the Sarens Group recently lifted two sets of four gigantic jackup legs onto two offshore installation vessels belonging to RWE OLG GmbH, a logistics company that is part of RWE Innogy, at the free port of Bremerhaven.