by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Manufacturer News
Increased payload capacities, on-board weighing, dynamic drive and a range of new standard features all serve to improve productivity and safety while reducing cost-per-ton. Fifty years ago, the articulated hauler was originated on the design philosophy that a truck...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Crane & Lifting News, Manufacturer News
Petro Sea Logistics added a 400t GMK6400 All Terrain Mobile crane to their fleet. The crane features, self rigging MegaWingLift and auxiliary hoist, a new designed carrier cabin, MEGATRAK suspension system with MegaDrive, all wheel steering, steer by wire technology,...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Constuction & Business News, Manufacturer News
Efforts to focus on raising efficiency ahead of heavy spending. TOKYO – Japanese construction machinery companies are boosting output capacity in India, responding to resurgent demand there and in other nearby economies. Efforts will focus on improving...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Equipment & Construction Videos, Mining News
What is 30 stories tall, moves at a half a mile per hour and churns through 240,000 tons of rock every day? Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel excavators make shorter work of mines than typical drill and blast mining....
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
A San Rafael-based engineering firm and an ex-foreman face misdemeanor charges in a 2015 fatal construction accident in which an employee was crushed to death near the side of Highway 101 by a 7,800-pound concrete pipe. Sonoma County prosecutors allege Maggiora &...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Constuction & Business News
The owner of a construction company has been charged with bribery and money laundering for allegedly paying more than $1 million to obtain city of Atlanta contracts. Elvin R. Mitchell Jr., has been arraigned on charges of conspiratorial bribery and money laundering,...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Manufacturer News, Offshore News
Modulift has manufactured its largest ever spreader beam that can lift a staggering 1,500t at a span of 20m (65 ft). The feat of below-the-hook engineering was delivered to Holland-based Safe Lifting Europe B.V, a sister company of Euro Rope Nederland B.V. and an...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Constuction & Business News
The base that will hold the legs of the massive New York Wheel was recently put in place on Staten Island’s waterfront Tuesday. FOUR 90-TON PEDESTALS — THE FIRST ABOVE-GROUND FEATURES OF THE FERRIS WHEEL Four 90-ton pedestals — the first above-ground features of...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News
Matherson Crane Hire is another one of those businesses that I love hearing about, because they are positive, they are committed, and they are thriving during a tough period for the Gladstone economy. Wayne Matherson runs his business like he runs his life, positive...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
WAUSAU (WAOW) – A 38-year-old worker killed at a steel factory was unhooking a girder from an overhead crane when the girder fell and toppled, striking him, a spokesman for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday. The accident...
