by admin | Sep 7, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News
Profits at the UK’s largest crawler crane hire business, Inverness-based Weldex, have plummeted by more than two-thirds. The company’s latest financial statements show pre-tax profits of £2,061 million for the year to December 2015, compared to £7,804 million in 2014....
by admin | Sep 6, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Manufacturer News
Canadian crane rental company Guay Inc. used Modulift spreader beams below-the-hook of two Manitowoc crawler cranes during installation of a six-section clinker kiln at the McInnis Cement plant development at Port-Daniel-Gascons, Québec. Lifting operations were...
by admin | Sep 6, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos
LOS ANGELES — A new skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles has become the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. Construction workers using a Luffing tower crane on Saturday placed a 10-ton spire atop the Wilshire Grand Tower. The spire adds 160 feet to the...
by admin | Sep 6, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News
A Kinser Crane mobile telescopic hydraulic truck crane lifting the first floor of the third Geometry in Construction house into position for Evanston High School students. Under the the four-party agreement to be approved Tuesday, the city and its partner in the NSP...
by admin | Sep 6, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News, Manufacturer News
The firm is buying mainly JCB Loadall telescopic handlers and a smaller number of rough terrain forklift trucks as it ramps up its fleet with the most technologically advanced machines on the market. Watling JCB has been chosen to supply 700 machines worth more than...
by admin | Sep 6, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
A Grove All Terrain Crane has finally been freed from a muddy quagmire in Singleton Park, Wales. The South Wales Evening Post said, the embedded mobile crane was snared in the sodden ground for 48 hours as it worked to return the park to normal after Noel Gallagher...
