Crane business

Sims Crane & Equipment, Tampa, Fla., annually holds a rodeo competition for its crane operators. Ed Cook, operating out of the Vero Beach location, was recently named Top Gun for 2012.

A reader spotted a tandem lift with a difference in Taiwan, they arrived in our offices just before Vertikal Days and taking a quick look at them, we completely missed what was going on.

A large boom truck crane overturned in Bethesda, Maryland on Saturday while removing a tree from the back yard of a house.

A 3,000-kilogram load of concrete descends from a tower crane into a busy intersection during rush hour. A mobile crane graces an overhead power line, electrocuting the crane operator. A tower crane tips over – and crushes a worker. These catastrophic events could happen at any construction site that fails to properly address hazards, according to workplace health and safety experts.

A demonstration has been staged outside the Department of Work and Pensions to highlight concerns over scrapping tower crane regulations

The US based crane operator certification company, National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO), has announced that it will issue colour-coded CCO cards for operators, riggers, signal persons, crane inspectors, practical examiners, and auditors.

When you buy a mobile harbour crane, what do you look for? Odds on, you’re looking for a powerful, efficient product that also provides great value for money.

The Construction Safety Campaign has called a protest rally on Tuesday against proposals to scrap tower crane regulations. Protesters want to retain the Notification of Conventional Tower Cranes Regulations 2010, whoseabolition was advocated by the Lofstedt review of Government regulations.

Manitex International, Bridgeview, Ill., has announced that it is launching a new 50-ton capacity, rubber-track-mounted, telescopic-boom crane named the Manitex 50155GT. Manitex believes the 50155GT is the highest-capacity crane ever mounted on a rubber-tracked carrier.

Introduced this Spring at Intermat, Newport News, Va.-based Liebherr’s 380 EC-B 16 Litronic flat-top crane is the series flagship, extending the series range to 380 ton-meters.