by admin | Sep 8, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Equipment Rental News
Watch the rehabilitation and replacement of several bridges for Connecticut Route 8 in Bridgeport, CT with EarthCam’s time-lapse movie. The project team which included Manafort Brothers, Inc. and Barnhart Crane & Rigging utilized Accelerated Bridge...
by admin | Sep 8, 2016 | Manufacturer News, Mining News
Participants at an upcoming Caterpillar-sponsored innovation hackathon in San Francisco will use datasets from the major equipment manufacturer to try to come up with novel ways to drive operating advances. Cash prizes are being offered for the best ideas to come out...
by admin | Sep 8, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News
Mammoet, the world’s largest service provider specializing in engineered heavy lifting and transport, and Stoof Engineering and Innovation (E&I) are joining forces to develop a new type of heavy lifter, named Focus. The “Focus” combines an unparalleled lifting...
by admin | Sep 8, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News
Essex Capital Group, Inc. successfully arranged a $500,000 bridge loan for one of the largest crane companies in the Midwest. The financing was put in place in five business days, from initial information exchange to funding. The new capital was used to bridge a cash...
by admin | Sep 7, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News
The world’s largest capacity land based crane, the AL.SK350, has been rigged for the first time and successfully load tested. The crane was load-tested in preparation of its first lifts on a FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) module integration project...
by admin | Sep 7, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Manufacturer News
TSC, has developed a fully air powered ATEX Zone 2 compliant mobile crane to meet the demands of critical, hazardous environment applications. The TSC Spider Crane is tough and durable, equipped with industry leading technology and delivers reliability and...
by admin | Sep 7, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Manufacturer News, Ports & Terminals
This time lapse video shows the retrofit of Liebherr ship cranes on a vessel by the help of two Liebherr mobile harbour cranes, type LHM 550....
by admin | Sep 7, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Workforce News
AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin construction company has been cited for serious violations and could now face fines of more than $121,000. According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Austin Constructors LLC exposed workers to...
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...
