crane industry news

Engineering company Monadelphous Group Ltd. became the first company in Australia to acquire a 750 tonne capacity Manitowoc 18000 with Max-Er attachment. The company’s engineering construction division has put it to work at a mining operation in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Italian crane manufacturer Fassi has been playing a key role in the rescue of 33 miners trapped for nearly ten weeks in Copiapo, Chile. Fassi cranes have been maneuvering the steel pipes to form the recently-completed escape tunnel that is part of one of the most complex rescue operations in mining history.

A 280 tonne lattice boom truck crane left the road on Friday and plunged into a ditch, after completing a lift in Astoria,the crane, an older Demag on a Faun carrier is owned by Portland based Campbell Crane & Rigging.

JE Dunn Construction is using a Linden-Comansa 21 LC 400 tower crane to restore the historic Kansas Statehouse in Topeka. The crane is working at a height of almost 104m (340ft). JE Dunn is managing the $36m Kansas Statehouse exterior masonry restoration project in the capital, Topeka.

Manitowoc is showing the new 65 ton Grove RT765E-2 Rough Terrain crane, along with a range of other new products at a series of opens days – Crane Expo 2010- at its Shady Grove plant in Pennsylvania.

Crews at the Port of Vancouver are helping move some extra-large packages: oil modules weighing 85 tons. The equipment, which arrived Monday, is bound for the Kearl Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada, where it will be assembled and used to extract oil from sand.

Caterpillar and Solimec have confirmed their plan to jointly develop a range of foundation cranes. The agreement follows the launch at Bauma of the 65 tonne Soilmec SC-65 lattice boomed crawler crane which was designed and built in collaboration with CAT.

Like so many of the world’s economies, business life in Russia was brought to a virtual halt in October 2008 by the global financial crisis. Funding for construction projects dried up.

International Tower Cranes 2011 is a new top-level one day conference and networking dinner for tower crane users and manufacturers worldwide. ITC 2011 will be held in central London, UK on 12 May 2011.

A man was seriously injured last week in Choctaw, Oklahoma after a boom section landed on him. The accident happened on a bridge repair project when a lattice crane boom section fell on him. The section was being lifted by a 360 degree tracked excavator when it slipped, struck the man on the head and then pinned him to the ground.