Crane business

Liebherr is hosting a series of customer days this week at which one of the more amazing demonstrations it has in store is an ingenious multiple crawler crane lift.

Tinkerbell the world’s largest capacity heavy lift tower crane has swung into action at Sydney’s $2 billion Central Park development, the first time the behemoth has been used in a CBD development.

A Rough Terrain crane overturned on a road in West Jones County, Mississippi on Friday, the operator escaped with moderate injuries.

Phoenix Crane Rental, Mableton, Ga., is supporting the National Breast Cancer Foundation with its 40-ton pink Terex crane.

A 550 lattice truck crane tipped precariously while working on a road job in Mexico City on Saturday, after one of its outriggers broke through into a disused pedestrian underpass.

A Manhattan judge on Wednesday rebuffed the operating engineers’ effort to block the city from implementing controversial new crane licensing requirements.

Space Shuttle Discovery, the most traveled shuttle in NASA’s fleet, ended its voyage at Washington Dulles International Airport this spring after more than 150 million miles of airtime.

Liebherr-Werk Nenzing has won Austria’s State prize for Environmental & Energy Technology, for its Pactronic hydraulic hybrid drive for cranes.

We have received some advance pictures of a new Liebherr 750 tonne All Terrain crane which will be unveiled next week – the LTM1750-9.1. We have very few details on the new crane, but Liebherr has confirmed that it will be launched next week, along with another new model at the company’s upcoming open days in Ehingen, Germany.

Cavotec has developed a lightweight radio remote control (RRC) unit for operators controlling equipment such as mobile cranes and tower cranes over extended periods.