Condra is to manufacture two overhead cranes for underground use at a Botswana diamond mine. The first crane will be a 15-ton suspension crane. It will feature two I-beams bolted to rock-bolt flanges […]
With the US facing labour shortages, supply chain issues and even talk of a recession, several businesses in the overhead crane industry describe what they are doing to help not only their customers, […]
Konecranes is to supply 12 S-series and CXT electric overhead cranes and nine jib cranes to Legnano Teknoelectric Company (LTC) Group’s new 30,000m2 manufacturing plant in Dubai, UAE. LTC Group make[…]
French industrial lifting specialist Plazar Manutention has designed and installed nine overhead cranes for Jouanel, a French manufacturer of machine tools and also tools for the fine sheet metal indu[…]
2020 was a year like no other. The pandemic and the prospect of Brexit between them made it a year to remember, though perhaps not for the right reasons. Julian Champkin looks at how the UK lifting ma[…]
British crane manufacturer Pelloby has supplied a 10t double girder overhead crane to Canal & River Trust to enhance its operational capabilities. The Canal & River Trust has been producing ga[…]
Columbus McKinnon Corporation has launched the Yale LodeKing LT ultra-low headroom top-running wire rope hoist, available in capacities ranging from 10–25t. Manufactured in Wadesboro, North Carolina[…]
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic the industry is continuing to make investments, building new plants, upgrading existing cranes, seeing a rise in electric car sales and foreign companies expanding in Rus[…]
Overhead crane and hoist manufacturer Ace World Companies has received an order for a custom hot metal ladle crane with three hoists from Nucor Steel Kankakee in Illinois. Nucor Steel Kankakee is a pr[…]
Crane manufacturer and lifting equipment specialist DT Engineering NW has built a Goliath crane on top of an overhead electric travelling crane in a car manufacturer’s press shop. This enables essen[…]
The market for hoists and factory cranes in Southern Europe is by no means as dire as some, in light of the pandemic, might have been led to believe. Julian Champkin finds optimism amongst its peers. […]
Pelloby has supplied more than 30 cranes to fellow Shropshire based firm HL Smith automotive transmission remanufacturers over the past twenty years. The majority of the lifting systems on site are po[…]
