mobile cranes

The government of Ontario, Canada has announced a safety blitz this month and next, checking crane safety on construction sites and surface mines across the province.

A reader spotted a tandem lift with a difference in Taiwan, they arrived in our offices just before Vertikal Days and taking a quick look at them, we completely missed what was going on.

Manitex International, Bridgeview, Ill., has announced that it is launching a new 50-ton capacity, rubber-track-mounted, telescopic-boom crane named the Manitex 50155GT. Manitex believes the 50155GT is the highest-capacity crane ever mounted on a rubber-tracked carrier.

Fédération Européenne de la Manutention (FEM) has revised its guidance on the use of cranes to lift people in connection with leisure activities.

Around 3,000 people from all over the world were expected over two days at the Liebherr-Werk Ehingen factory in Germany on 13 and 14 June.

An All Terrain crane has overturned on a hospital jobsite in Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia today, whilst placing steelwork on a new laboratory extension at a cardiac centre. No one was hurt in the incident.

Customers at Liebherr-Werk Ehingen in Germany on 13 June were treated to first sight of a new telescopic boom crawler crane. The 220 tonne capacity LTR 1220 has a 60 metre telescopic boom derived from the 220 tonne LTM 1220-5.2 wheeled mobile crane.

Liebherr is hosting a series of customer days this week at which one of the more amazing demonstrations it has in store is an ingenious multiple crawler crane lift.

A Rough Terrain crane overturned on a road in West Jones County, Mississippi on Friday, the operator escaped with moderate injuries.

Space Shuttle Discovery, the most traveled shuttle in NASA’s fleet, ended its voyage at Washington Dulles International Airport this spring after more than 150 million miles of airtime.