Under the Hook

A leader in offsite manufacturing says it has improved efficiency and safety in its factory after investing in bespoke lifting products from Britlift. McAvoy is a UK and Ireland market leader in the precision manufacture and delivery of temporary and permanent modular buildings. The company wanted a more effective method of lifting its floor and […]

John Sutch Cranes Ltd deploys Modulift Lattice Beams for lifting roof sheets in Ocean Plaza Leisure Park, Southport. John Sutch Cranes Ltd has successfully supported the installation of roof sheets at Ocean Plaza Leisure Park in Southport, UK. Using Modulift’s Lattice Spreader Beams, the project achieved a safe and efficient lift over a large span, […]

Specialist lifting manufacturer Modulift, together with RSG Rentals and Keltbray Lifting, has facilitated a challenging lift in central London with just 2cm headroom to spare. A Modulift Multi-Point Lifting Beam was used to lift an 8t precast section under an existing façade retention structure. With only 48 hours to get the necessary equipment on site, […]

A 308t historic lift of WWII dry dock gate was Lifted from the Brisbane River, Australia  using Modulift below-the-hook spreader beams. Modulift spreader beams have played a pivotal role in an extraordinary lift in the Brisbane River, Australia, where East Coast Cranes and Tutt Bryant Heavy Lift and Shift successfully removed a historic World War […]

Verton’s SP30 Rotational Control Stabiliser for Spreader Bars Succeeds in Woodside’s Subsea Pipe-Laying Project. Verton’s innovative crane spreader bar stabilisation and rotational control technology successfully completed the task set by Spliethoff Group in their pipe lifting operations for Woodside’s $12.5 billion Scarborough Energy Project. Woodside Energy is developing the Scarborough natural gas field, located in the […]

Specialist lifting equipment manufacturer, Modulift is facilitating civil engineering installation works at Hinkley Point C. One milestone moment saw the 730t reactor cavity precast pool installed with Modulift underslung beams and “Big Carl,” the world’s largest crane. This marks a significant step towards the UK’s first new nuclear power station in over a generation. BYLOR, […]

A Modulift CMOD 24 has been used to lift iconic supercars at the prestigious Goodwood Festival of Speed. As an internationally renowned motorsport event, Goodwood marks a significant date in the diary for car enthusiasts, attracting around 200,000 visitors each year to its location in West Sussex, UK. The supercar lifts were carried out by […]

Japan-based lifting gear supplier, Nakamura Industry Co Ltd and its customer have successfully lifted an EMU3000 train using Modulift spreader beams at Hualien Port in Taiwan. Below-the-hook, Nakamura’s customer employed two MOD 34 spreader beams at a span of 3.5m, providing four lifting points underneath the train to evenly distribute the weight. The two spreader […]

The Caldwell Group Inc. has delivered a custom system for rotating a track section during manufacture of the world’s most powerful telescope. Caldwell is one of the several businesses based in Rockford, Illinois, USA,  including milling specialist, Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc, that is delivering various scopes of work to The Giant Magellan Telescope, an international […]

CAF Rolling Stock UK produces trains for the UK market. The bodies, bogies and engines are manufactured at CAF facilities in Spain and France for assembly at its plant in Llanwern near Newport, Wales. Clients include Transport for Wales, which recently commissioned 180 new diesel trains from CAF. The Welsh facility runs two 25t cranes […]