Crane business

An M2480D Favco tower crane from Marr Contracting in Australia has been used to lift what is likely to be the highest and heaviest load into a fully functional CBD site, writes Brent Stacey.

A 50 tonne mobile crane has overturned while lifting a garbage disposal truck in Hörgertshausen, Germany, on Monday.

Australia’s federal government has proposed scrapping the landmark hammerhead crane in Sydney. A report by the department of defence report proposes scrapping the 250 tonne crane which has been in…

UNIC mini cranes played a starring role on the set of Hollywood blockbuster “Noah” recently as they assisted with filming inside a 5000 year old lava stream cave near Reykjavik in Iceland.

A 90 tonne All Terrain crane overturned into canal in Bradford, UK, on Friday while travelling to a lift.

R&B Engineering Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, will soon introduce its second crawler-mounted mini-crane into the U.S. market.

A New York crane operator and contractor each face at least $64,000 in fines for a crawler collapse last month. See Overload blamed for NY crane collapse See crane collapses in New York.

Demand for rough-terrain cranes of all sizes remains high, If the U.S. construction market turns a page in 2013, rough terrain cranes will lead the way.

GGR Group has introduced a pair of unique multifunctional spider cranes, the Cormidi KB19-4 and KB22-4, to their expanding range of lifting solutions for hire and purchase.

A crawler crane overturned near Omaha, Nebraska yesterday dumping two men into the Missouri River, while trapping the crane operator in his cab.