Crane & Rigging Hot Line announces that key organizations in the crane and rigging industry have signed up to sponsor the 2014 Top Trainer program.
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Unic Cranes Europe has provided spider crane training for UK and Danish military servicemen in order to carry out helicopter maintenance and repair work.
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Potain tower cranes assist with $3.8bn dam build
by Ernie Pierini
July 21, 2014
A team of 19 Potain tower cranes are helping to build the 1,285MW Xayaburi Dam in Laos.
A 220 tonne All Terrain crane overturned in Germany this morning landing on a house and trapping a man in the small town of Dettelbach, to the east of Würzburg– in northwest Bavaria.
A mid-size truck mounted lift overturned last night in Bournemouth Gardens, in southern England, while working on the Bournemouth Balloon a tethered helium balloon attraction.
Crane Institute Certification (CIC) announces that it achieved accreditation for four of its crane operator certification programs.
CCO certification reached a historic milestone last month when the 100,000th person to be certified through the nationally accredited program since its launch in April 1996 received his certification card.
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Grove cranes lift giant relics at the Smithsonian
by Ernie Pierini
July 8, 2014
Two Grove GMK7550 all-terrain cranes have been used to lift a pair of giant historical artefacts at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the demand for quality training and certification programs for operators, riggers and safety personnel.
Bay Bridge that linked San Francisco to Oakland to be dismantled with 2 Liebherr LTM 1160/s and 2 Link-Belt HTC 8690, to be totally completed by July 2016. The first nine months of the project were consumed with engineering and planning.