An operator managed to jump clear as his crawler crane tipped over sideways last week on the north pier of Kilkeel harbour in Northern Ireland.
05.07.2008
Manitowoc unveiled its design for an innovative 2,300 tonne crawler crane with compact dimensions and full pick and carry capability at Conexpo today.
12.03.2008
A crawler crane collapsed today in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania no one was injured but a parked car was crushed.
24.04.2007
Height for Hire/Easi-UpLifit has purchased 11 new Maeda mini cranes.
12.04.2007
Kobelco cranes recently completed its first full year as an independent entity within the Kobe steel group. It has now published its results, plans and forecasts.
24.05.2005
Manitowoc Crane Group has announced that a new luffing jib is now available for its 13 Model 555 lattice boom crawler crane.
24.03.2004
MIC Corporation, Japan’s largest crane rental company, has taken delivery of two 1250 USton (1134 tonne) capacity Demag CC8800s.
05.12.2003
The crane divisions of Hitachi Construction Machinery and Sumitomo Heavy Industries have merged to form Hitachi Sumitomo
26.06.2003
Manitowoc is gearing up its crawler crane sales activities in Europe - two cranes have now arrived in Germany
17.01.2003
Manitowoc Cranes has closed its Wisconsin factory for one week and temporarily laid off 90 workers
26.08.2002
Fil Filipov of Terex has masterminded the purchase of Demag Mobile Cranes for a reported US$150 million and is returning to his position as boss of Terex Cranes worldwide
20.05.2002
Hitachi and Sumitomo are forming a joint venture which will merge their crawler crane operations.
25.04.2002
Demag's CEO and president Eberhard Kuhn is to leave the company after 36 years.
03.12.2001
The European market for crawler cranes is currently about €16 million says Tsutomu Kimura, Managing Director of Kobelco in Europe. He estimates that Kobelco has 15 to 20 per cent of the market.
29.11.2001
Hundreds of heavy lift specialists converged on Demag’s test ground today to see the new 1,250 tonne CC 8800 which was has been rigged for the first time ever
09.11.2001
British crawler crane manufactuer NCK is struggling out of liquidation.
03.09.2001
US crane manufacturer Manitowoc is actively investigating the possibility of building crawler cranes at newly acquired Potain’s factory in France.
08.07.2001