Australian Kennards Lift and Shift has launched Rig-Release, a remote-release crane hook
18.04.2008
A mobile crane tipped over yesterday in Qatar, thankfully no one was injured.
New York City has completed the inspection of all tower cranes in the five boroughs, only 72.5% of them passed the first inspection.
17.04.2008
A crane operator has been charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter for accidentally killing two motorists and a co-worker.
Scaninter Nokia/Scanclimber the Finnish mastclimber manufacturer has been acquired by two venture capital firms.
A man died on Saturday at an offshore drilling rig in Brazil, after a wire rope sling broke dropping a steel basket onto him.
MRX Engineering Support Services was fined £100,000 plus almost £17,000 costs following a fatal crane accident.
16.04.2008
A truck with loader crane struck and damaged a railway bridge in Langley Mill, Derbyshire, yesterday, closing the line for a period.
Norfolk based rental company SGS has entered the mini crane market with the acquisition of two new Maeda Mini Cranes.
Work has started on removing two quayside cranes
South Korean Doosan Heavy Industries has won a $117 million order for rubber tyred gantry cranes in Singapore
Manitowoc officially opened its new Crane Care facility in Shady Grove Pennsylvania on March 31.
Terex has announced the location of a Chinese production plant for Genie aerial lifts.
15.04.2008
John Ball managing director of Height for Hire/Easi UpLifts is the new president of IPAF.
Vertikal’s UK team will be at the IPAF summit today, if you are there stop and speak to us.
Europ's largest container terminal operator Eurogate is planning massive investments to manage the rising number of very large container vessels.
A truck crane tipped over in New Zealand yesterday crushing the house it was erecting.
Tanfield’s Smith Electric Vehicles division has launched the Smith Ampere, an electric powered van designed in collaboration with Ford.
SGB UK has won a £2 million order to provide scaffolding to Jacobs engineering at the Lindsay Oil Refinery.
14.04.2008
A man installing windows on a high rise construction job in New York fell to his death yesterday after his suspension harness gave way.
Early unvalidated figures from the UK's HSE suggest a 10% fall in industry deaths - but warns against complacency.
A Rough Terrain fork truck driver has been prosecuted by the UK HSE, after causing serious injuries to a colleague.
Demag Cranes AG is considering raising its full-year guidance of earnings before interest and tax of €110 million.
The Manitowoc Company has struck a deal to acquire British based food equipment company, Enodis for around $2 billion.
