Crane business

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All terrain cranes might have been the brainchild of European manufacturers and might still today have a major manufacturing hold in Europe (Germany, specifically), but they’ve crept into the North American market and continue to expand as design needs are met.

There were no injuries reported Saturday after the crane hit a ledge near the top of the mixed-use building on Maiden Lane, three blocks from Wall Street, the Fire Department of New York said. Part of the lower Manhattan building’s facade broke off and fell into the street, police Lt. John Grimpel s

Belgian based international lifting specialist Sarens is launching a 3,250 tonne 120,000 tonne/metre heavy lift crane of its own design, the SGC 120. It can handle a massive 600 tonnes at 100 metres radius.

Investigators said Mr. Cosban’s lapse — he did not lower the boom as far as it could go — contributed to the accident but might not have been the sole cause. They said that they were looking into whether mechanical failure was a factor and that they might issue further citations.

A 70 metre truck mount tipped over in the North of Holland yesterday after one of its jacks punched through a concrete yard. The lift, owned by Belgian rental company Maes, was working in a farm yard installing a mobile phone antenna to the top of a silo.

A company director has been ordered to pay £20,000 over the death of his best friend after an access platform toppled over in Manchester city centre in 2007.

Workers expect to finish the project by July, in time for students to move in when UGA’s fall semester begins in August.

Morrow Equipment Company has supplied a Liebherr 630 EC-H 40 Litronic tower crane for work to the Ottawa Convention Centre, Ontario, Canada.

The disgraced Department of Buildings inspector James Delayo, 61, admitting that he repeatedly sold answers to the crane operator licensing test, and the licenses themselves, for around $500 each.