Crane Business

Crane Institute of America announces the availability of the newest edition of the industry’s favorite rigging handbook. Rigging, by James Headley, has been converted from imperial to metric. Providing practical…

The other day I was asked “what training do you need to drive a crane?”. While this might seem a simple question with a simple answer, it is actually a good deal more challenging.

A new lifting related training company, SWL Training has been established in the UK by Kevin Bennison.

As technology has improved and cranes continue to get larger many lifts made in the past with two or more cranes are now being made with just one.

Carpenter Crane Hoist worked with Midwest Cleanroom Associates to install lifting equipment that met a variety of criteria, the most notable being the design of a crane that wouldn’t contaminate the lenses on the James Webb Space Telescope.

Fassi is to launch a new 80 tonne/metre heavy duty loader crane at the Lastbil industrial vehicle trade fair in Elmia, Sweden, later this month.

Crane & Rigging Hot Line announces that key organizations in the crane and rigging industry have signed up to sponsor the 2014 Top Trainer program.

Unic Cranes Europe has provided spider crane training for UK and Danish military servicemen in order to carry out helicopter maintenance and repair work.

An EOT crane lifts rocket and space equipment at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, one of the oldest launch sites in the world.

Terex launches new CTL 1600 range topping luffing jib tower crane.