crane industry news

A large bridge beam buckled and fell onto a highway as it was being installed last week at the Cross Iron Mills Mall on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

On 10 June 2010 Swiss rental company Senn tried out its new 1,200 tonne capacity Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 telescopic mobile crane for the first time.

“The contract with A2Sea for the use of Sea Jack will allow us to deploy Ormonde’s 30 wind turbines in 2011 and is, therefore, an important part of the project’s supply chain jigsaw

The 15-storey headquarters on Miller Street will be among the most sustainable new office buildings in Europe. Construction will begin in earnest in mid-July.

Crawler crane manufacturer Fuwa Heavy Industry Co in China is testing a new range-topping 1,250 tonne capacity lattice boom crawler crane.

Those four towering construction cranes dotting the horizon at Campbell County Memorial Hospital are doing the heavy lifting on a $68 million expansion that includes a two-story medical wing, three-and-a-half-level parking garage and a new helipad.

A manufacturing defect has been identified in spigots on K600 and K800 mast sections used in Manitowoc Cranes, Potain MD, MDT and MR Tower Cranes. There have been two known mast section failures from this cause.

Jubail, Saudi Arabia based ACT – Arabian Consolidated Trading, has purchased a 1,200 tonn Liebherr LTM11200-9.1 the first in the kingdom and the largest telescopic crane to be based there. It becomes the flagship of the company’s 100 crane fleet

In the truck crane sector models based on standard commercial vehicles are becoming a more popular option than the traditional truck crane with dedicated carrier.

Bigge Crane and Rigging, one of the largest engineered heavy lift and rigging firms in the U.S., is assisting in the construction of a new USTAR facility at the University of Utah.