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German crane rental company Eisele used a pair of 500 tonne capacity Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 mobile cranes to lift and place 275 concrete bridge beams on a Frankfurt airport expansion project

Japanese crane manufacturer Kobelco Cranes will build crawler cranes in India.

Let’s face it; building sites are generally pretty grim places to work. A bleak landscape with heat, dust and occupational hazards are quite the industry norm out here.

At the beginning of the year, you were given a big, fat quota. Your company may have softened the lexicon by calling it a “sales plan,” or a goal. But the bottom line is: if you don’t meet it, you’re out.

Operator information systems are moving with the times to provide accessible data in busier working environments for more advanced and larger cranes.

UK-based King Lifting used a 130 tonne capacity all terrain crane to lift a ferry from the Serpentine river in Hyde Park, London.

The 6-axle segment of all terrain crane manufacturers’ ranges has far fewer models than the one for five axles – and that is unlikely to change.

Chinese hoist manufacturer Baoda is to supply 14 hoists for the construction of the massive Shanghai Center high-rise building in Shanghai’s Pudong district.

A large bridge beam buckled and fell onto a highway as it was being installed last week at the Cross Iron Mills Mall on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

On 10 June 2010 Swiss rental company Senn tried out its new 1,200 tonne capacity Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 telescopic mobile crane for the first time.