MIC Corporation, Japan’s largest crane rental company, has taken delivery of two 1250 USton (1134 tonne) capacity Demag CC8800s.
05.12.2003
Cranes Today, organiser of Crane Safety 2004, has released preliminary details of next year’s conference being held at the Thistle Tower Hotel, London on the 21 and 22 of June.
28.11.2003
Mike Williams, principal inspector for Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a statement following the recent Canary Wharf tower crane collpase inquest at St Pancras Coroner’s Court, London.
18.11.2003
Terex has announced the retirement of Fil Filipov as CEO of Terex Cranes, his son Steve Filipov will take over as president
14.11.2003
BBC Radio Four is this week featuring a series of a broadcasts on the crane industry. The 'Life of Cranes' series will consist of five programmes at 15:45 each day this week.
12.11.2003
Terex Corporation in the US has announced a 50 per cent jump in revenues for the nine months to 30 September, 2003.
27.10.2003
Hewden Stuart faces massive damages following the Canary Wharf tower crane tragedy - legal argument has focussed on interpretation of the CPA's hire contract conditions.
08.08.2003
Production of Peiner tower cranes is to move to the Demag facility in Zweibrücken, Germany and not the Comedil plant in Fontanafredda, Italy as originally stated
30.07.2003
Ainscough called upon the power of its 1000 tonne capacity Liebherr recently to assist in the erection of the UK's tallest wind turbine.
15.07.2003
Bridon Ropes Limited has announced the closure of its wire rope factory in Retford, Nottinghamshire, effective from March 2004.
30.06.2003
The crane divisions of Hitachi Construction Machinery and Sumitomo Heavy Industries have merged to form Hitachi Sumitomo
26.06.2003
Manitowoc Crane Group has opened a 25,000 square metre distribution facility in Breda, The Netherlands
23.06.2003
UK crane hire company Marsh Plant has taken delivery of the last six Tadano TL250E truck cranes
John L Grove, founder of Grove and JLG, has died at the age of 82.
19.06.2003
Nearly 200 mobile and tower crane industry experts descended on the Thistle Tower Hotel, London recently for the Crane Safety 2003 conference. C&A reports
18.06.2003
US-based heavy lift specialist Lampson International has taken delivery of a new Manitowoc Model 18000 crawler crane.
13.06.2003
There was a lot for Intermat visitors to see – full reports will appear later, but here are some first impressions from the Vertikal.net team of reporters.
23.05.2003
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has sponsored research and offered its full support to Drilling Systems UK for the development of a training simulator for offshore crane operators.
03.04.2003
A major re-organisation of the Manitowoc Crane Group in Europe, the Middle East and Africa has been announced
28.02.2003
Terex Cranes group has reported a net sales increase of US$226.9 million for 2002, despite Terex Corporation reporting a net sales loss of $132.5 million.
26.02.2003
The managing directors of Hewden and Ainscough both change in a dramatic week in UK crane hire
25.02.2003
The HSE has released a discussion paper on the safe use of ‘external’ climbing frames on tower cranes.
17.02.2003
US based crane distribution and rental company Gleason Cranes is shutting its doors after 50 years in business
05.02.2003
Tadano Faun recently honoured the sales performance and celebrated the 25th anniversary of its distributor for Spain, MYCSA Mulder y Co.
19.01.2003
