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The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) has launched a new website, Propane.com, a source for information about propane safety and newly developed propane-powered technology across the fuel’s top markets: agriculture, commercial landscape, industrial, on-road fleets, and residential. PERC hopes the consolidated web presence will promote a “one-fuel solution” by encouraging business and residential customers […]

Noting that the inspection process is the vital link to the safety and maximum utilization of a company’s cranes, North American Crane Bureau Inc. will be conducting a mobile crane inspector program in Spanish at its Houston, Texas, training facility, starting September 8. NACB's instructional staff offers students the opportunity to receive documented, formal training on the inspection […]

  German manufacturer JD Neuhaus is marketing a range of products for use in underwater environments. Divers are very often working alone, in conditions of variable depth water pressures and temperatures, combined with poor visibility while also battling with ocean currents. With all these problems to contend with, any tools they use need to be […]

Crown Equipment has opened a new production facility in Roding (Bavaria), Germany. The opening ceremony in July was attended by employees and guests, including local politicians and business partners. With a new production hall and office premises covering a total area of nearly 12,000 square meters (approximately 129,000 square feet), Roding is one of the […]

  Harrington Hoists has added an Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) to its training courses for the TNER Theatrical Electric Chain Hoist range. The program consists of an eight-hour inspection and repair training course intended for ETCP certified riggers and electricians, covering inspection, repair, maintenance, and troubleshooting TNER hoists.The course includes how to read and […]

  Industrial and entertainment lifting specialist Hoist UK continues to expand, naming Geoff Cromwell its new lifting equipment engineer. Cromwell brings over 40 years of experience within the lifting equipment industry, having previously been employed by Aabacas Cranes, Fellows-Stringer, PCM (a division of Pfaff-silberblau) and more recently Lift Turn Move. Hoist UK director Paul Jordan said: […]

  Catalan lifting equipment manufacturer Airpes has produced a video to communicate the benefits of its Eagle system, called “the brain for your industrial crane” by Josep Compte, the managing director of the Barcelona-based firm. Eagle is an electronic limiter designed to enhance safety and productivity when using cranes. It provides software for multi overload […]

  A Unic mini spider crane hired from restricted access lifting specialists GGR Group was used to install ventilation louvres at London’s new Canary Wharf Station, part of the Crossrail project. GGR’s red mini spider crane featured in the third episode of BBC Two’s Crossrail television documentary series “The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway”. Subcontractor Lakesmere […]

  RUD Chains Ltd is promoting its WBPG 85-200t hoist ring to the heavy duty offshore lifting sector, where the product is suited to a variety of engineering, construction and other projects. The WBPG has been used to lift heavy cable-laid grommets in offshore applications, offering a removable suspension ring in the shape of a shackle […]

  EMH, Inc. (Engineered Material Handling), of Valley City, Ohio, has launched a new range of lightweight workstation cranes. The AL crane systems are flexible and easily installed, offering capacities up to 2,200 pounds. With aluminum track profiles, AL crane systems are easily configured to suit almost any applications. Anodized aluminum extrusions and enclosed rails […]