mobile cranes

Liebherr-Werk Nenzing has won Austria’s State prize for Environmental & Energy Technology, for its Pactronic hydraulic hybrid drive for cranes.

We have received some advance pictures of a new Liebherr 750 tonne All Terrain crane which will be unveiled next week – the LTM1750-9.1. We have very few details on the new crane, but Liebherr has confirmed that it will be launched next week, along with another new model at the company’s upcoming open days in Ehingen, Germany.

The Liebherr MK 110 mobile construction crane assisted in the construction of a four-storied extension to a factory in the Tuas industrial area of Singapore.

A quick thinking crane operator may have helped save a woman’s life yesterday in York, South Carolina.

An operator escaped injury yesterday after his crane slid off of the road and rolled on to its side near Manning, Oregon.

A reader in the USA has sent us a photograph of an old crane that perhaps one of you can identify?

A traffic accident on Sydney’s Anzac bridge this morning is all over the press- because a crane is involved.

A 100 tonne crane boom buckled while lifting bridge beams in Northern Norway earlier this week. The crane, owned by Vest Kran, was working from a massive barge, installing a new bridge in Vikan, near Bodø when the incident occurred. No one was injured.

A crane operator died yesterday after the boom truck he was operating overturned at the dockside in Seward, Alaska. The operator, Feliz Morales, 52, was reportedly lifting nets from a boat, when his crane overturned, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Florida Crane Safety Alliance, supported by OSHA Alliance and several Florida crane and construction trade associations will conduct a Crane Safety & Education Seminar. June 7, 2012, in Dania Beach, Fla.