articleSling snaps during lift crushing worker
Pelloby Engineering has been fined after a beam weighing two tonnes fell onto an employee causing severe injuries.
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productBespoke lifter
Materials handling equipment specialist Lift Safe has provided digital printing services company C3 Imaging with a custom-built lifter to lift large rolls of materials onto its awkwardly-sited digital printing machine.
productHammerhead modernised
Konecranes has carried out an extensive refurbishment of the river Tyne’s most historic Hammerhead heavy lifting crane, which worked on such exceptional maritime vessels as Ark Royal and HMS Illustrious in the golden era of the North East shipyards.
productBespoke solution
Bradshaw Electric Vehicles has provided a bespoke tow tractor to a dump truck manufacturing company.
productElevating cabin boosts safety when moving bulkier loads
Linde Material Handling has added the elevating cabin to its range of safety products in response to the increasing problem of moving larger and bulkier loads for forklift truck operators.
article14,000 Newtons of pushing force
The Egytech plant in Ramadan City, Egypt, manufactures medium and high voltage power cables and the company contacted Nu-Star in search of a machine powerful enough to push the larger 40,000kg+ cable drums produced.
articleHandling up to 6,000kg
The new power and free (P&F) system for heavy loads rounds out Eisenmann’s portfolio of conveyor solutions for painting lines.
productBrian Wood marks 50 years at Street Crane
In August 1965 “Help” by the Beatles was at number one, the group played Shea Stadium, New York, the first ever super-group stadium gig, and the Rolling Stones released “I Can’t Get no Satisfaction”. A keen follower of both groups, a young man called Brian Wood joined Street Crane as an apprentice.
articleLeading sideloader manufacturer sets up in UK
Baumann UK will be headed up by Jason Reynolds as MD and will market diesel, LPG and electric models.
productPick & place motions with intelligent software
Fully fledged robot functions for simple gantry systems and automatic stackers can be designed more easily with the new robotics module in the Lenze FAST application software.
productFaster positioning of 1 tonne beams
Manufacture of customised flooring systems has been speeded up by new feed units with a simple and accurate control system.
articleReachstacker series from Liebherr makes debut
Liebherr Maritime Cranes has launches the new Pulser reachstacker series.
articleJaguar Land Rover invests in suite of cranes and hoists
Konecranes has supplied and installed a comprehensive range of hoist and crane lifting system solutions within Jaguar Land Rover’s new Engine Manufacturing Centre (EMC) located on the i54 business park in Wolverhampton.
articleAGV system makes the process possible
An automated solution from Egemin machines is helping a manufacturer produce up to 5,000 crown corks per minute in three daily shifts.
productTurbine handing
Four employees of Gerritsen On- & Offshore Services BV company have handled routine turbine maintenance on an offshore location in the Southern North Sea, utilising an air operated hoist unit manufactured by the J D Neuhaus company for the safe and effective lift and manoeuvre procedures for a turbine lift load of 12000kgs.
articleWheeled crane causes serious arm injury
Totternhoe Metal Recycling Limited (TMR) have been fined after a worker was injured while delivering waste metal.
articleCombilift breaks ground on €40 million manufacturing facility
Combilift, the specialist manufacturer of 4-way forklifts and other innovative materials handling equipment recently formally inaugurated the construction process of its new €40 million, 46,000m² manufacturing facility and global HQ in Monaghan, Ireland.
productCargo handling equipment order
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has been awarded an order from long-standing partner Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) to supply cargo handling equipment for general cargo and intermodal operation at the ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG terminals at Wolfurt, Wels and Wien Süd in Austria.
articleHeavy duty evolution
Manufacturers are rapidly evolving more powerful and sophisticated solutions to meet the trend of ever more heavy and awkward loads, as Solving general manager John Cownley explains.
articleTerex and Konecranes propose merger
The merger must still clear regulatory hurdles, but if it completes, the combined firm – Konecranes Terex – will boast annual sales in the region of $10bn.
