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The US Crane & Derricks in Construction Final Rule standards have been released and will be published in the Federal Register on August 9th 90 days later an up to four year transition period begins before all sections effectively become law.

The new models in the compact telescopic series include the PC 1500, PC 2700 and PC 3800. This series has been completely redesigned, the company said, and the new models offer up to 15% increase in lifting moment and up to 25% decrease in dead weight.

Manitowoc Cranes, Manitowoc, Wis., has completed overload testing of the 2,535-ton 31000 crawler.

Cold calling is over. The only people who don’t realize it are the people still making them. Or worse – their bosses.

Over the next nine months, Svanen will install the remaining 89 foundations ready for the mounting of two substations and 88 wind turbines.

The cranes arrived on site in April 2009, and range from 6 t to 12 t capacities with working heights between 28 m and 61 m. The cranes work daily, transporting general building materials. They will remain on site until the project is complete in early 2012.

Three Comansa Jie flat top tower cranes are working on an extension to the Fuijan liquefied natural gas power plant in city of Putian, China.

Industrial equipment auctioneer Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers has set a company record by selling 918 cranes between January and June 2010.

I just read a pathetic sales pitch from an email where a “training company” was telling me why training fails, and offering what THEY thought was the best way to approach the process.

A tower crane should only be erected or dismantled and tested by competent persons, i.e. an engineer and erection crew trained in the erection and dismantling of that type of tower crane.