crane industry news

Norwegian construction company, Norska Veidekke, is using a Hiab crane fitted with a work platform to help secure the roof of a Swedish road tunnel currently under construction.

A double deck bus collided with a load of rebar being lifted by a tower crane on a site in Sidcup, Kent yesterday. The incident happened opposite the railway station, the load struck the inside top corner of the upper deck smashing the window. No one was injured in the incident, although a seven year old girls sitting in the seat nearest was treated for a minor cut from a glass fragment.

Modulift has designed and manufactured the giant lifting rig used for the fast and efficient lifting and assembly of the Repower’s 5MWgiant wind turbines at Harland and Wolff in N. Ireland. Responsible for the unloading and assembly of the clean power generators for Vattenfall’s Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm Project in the Irish Sea, Harland and Wolff also have to load them back onto the barges when assembled, for installation in the Irish Sea, creating a need for a rig that could multi-task.

A truck crashed through the third floor wall of the New York Sanitation department workshops in Queens yesterday. The truck was left hanging precariously over the street some 10 to 12 metres in the air. It is still not known how the 16 tonne salt spreader came to be breaking out of the building.

Early Monday morning, Eagle West Cranes was on metal sculptor Kevin Stone’s front lawn preparing to transport his 8,000-pound steel dragon to the Pacific National Exhibition grounds in Vancouver.“I don’t want nothing to go wrong,” he said, swiping his hand nervously through his hair. “A million things could go wrong.”

A man died when a mobile crane toppled over at a quarry in Lancashire. Emergency crews were called to the Scout Moor quarry in Edenfield, near Ramsbottom, after reports that a crane had crashed at 11:55 BST.

A new company has been established in the UK to provide contractors and other crane owners with operators. Based just outside of London High Drive Recruitment is fronted by Tristam Mayes a highly experienced crane operator in his own right.

Mike Gelskey Sr., president and CEO, Lift-It Manufacturing, Los Angeles, Calif., will be one of the headline speakers at Maximum Capacity Media’s (MCM) Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) Canada, which will take place Oct. 12-13, 2011 at the Fantasyland Hotel, Alberta.

Gelskey will speak from 37 years of experience in the design and fabrication of synthetic lifting products, in particular outlining

Usually, efficiencies are associated with a wind turbine’s ability to convert energy from the wind into electric power. But as the wind power industry matures, construction processes are becoming more efficient as well. Turbine installation processes are becoming more challenging as turbine sizes increase, and the size of wind farms grows larger.

A crane operator accidentally engaged the main hoist of his crawler crane in Naples Maine, yesterday pulling the lattice boom over the back of the crane. No one was injured in the incident and there appears to be little damage to anything but the crane, the boom of which is clearly a ‘write-off’.