Technology

A new vehicle purchasing plan which will save up to 60,000 liters of fuel per year.

The transformer arrived on a 32 axle railway wagon. In order enable a floating crane to lift the transformer it had to be transferred almost to the edge of the quay by a SPMT.

Just a few days ago the Department of Energy announced a ten-year plan to make wind and solar power as cheap as fossil fuels, and at least one top player in the future energy field is off to a roaring start. That would be GE. The company has just completed acquisition of a next-generation technology that lowers the cost of installing wind turbine towers, resulting in an overall savings of up to 12%.

The tower crane is an important link in the construction process. Even though the crane operator is seated in a cabin high up in the sky, he is still not able to view his entire working area. The visibility problem gets even worse as construction progresses and starts to increasingly obstruct the operator’s view.

Yukon Energy wants to significantly expand its capacity for wind generation by installing a wind farm in central Yukon that could potentially produce as much energy as the Whitehorse hydro dam in winter.

Multiquip will launch the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell powered lighting tower at the World of Concrete exhibition, being held in Las Vegas on 18-21 January. The company said it is the first of a series of fuel cell powered products that it will launch.

Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) has launched a free mobile app to access crane hand signals. Signals are shown graphically and all are available in English and Spanish. They comply with the new OSHA Cranes and Derricks Standard, Appendix A to Subpart CC of Part 1926-Standard Hand Signals, SC&RA said.

The Specialized Carriers and Rigging Association (SC&RA) and Equipment Training Solutions, LLC (ETS) have rolled out a comprehensive Rigger Safety Training Course.

Humans are blessed with the intelligence and thinking which have taken them taken them out of this earth and journey have done through the space ships which is again outcome of human intelligence.

Manual lubrication of wire ropes via the drip, brush, spatula or rubber glove method has always been a difficult and time consuming maintenance task. Typically messy asphaltic or “blackjack” type products are employed which have coating abilities but very little lubrication or penetration properties – the core of the rope is therefore not lubricated.