productStacker truck gets modular redesign
WHC has developed a new modular design stacker truck, which can be easily modified and customised to meet specific customer requirements.
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productQuarter pallet lifters
Danish manufacturer of material handling equipment, Logitrans A/S, has launched the LogiQ 200 and LogiQ 300 quarter pallet lifters.
articlePower play
Toyota Material Handling UK counterbalance product manager Dave Rylance is passionate about high tonnage forklifts and talks to HSS editor Simon Duddy about the nuances involved in deciding between diesel and electric powered models.
productCompact & maneuverable
Terex Port Solutions has sold two TFC 46 M reach stackers to Brazilian terminal operator Bandeirantes for its port in Santos.
productHovercraft get a lift
Liifting equipment specialist, Lloyds British, has lifted a 55t hovercraft from its transport wheel blocks onto its stand for final fitting. Due to the limitations to the work area, the lift was set up for a maximum radius lift of 26m.
productSuper strength transport dolly
Designed to facilitate the safe and easy movement of stacked crates, Goplasticboxes.com has added a new colourful transport dolly to its expanding range of box accessories.
productHoists for maintenance centre
Grupo JPG, a local integrator of Verlinde hoists and crane components in Spain, has equipped the CISF (Centro Integral de Sistemas Ferroviarios), a new 20,000m2 train maintenance area for ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias), with overhead cranes to lift the train power and motorisation equipment.
productRemote service package
Konecranes has re-launched its Trucare remote service package. First introduced in 2012, Trucare has been remodelled into a modular concept that is designed to better serve the needs of customers from across a host of industry sectors.
productAnother load carrier
Having used a Bradshaw FB1000 load carrier for over six years at the Grosvenor Waterside development, St James Group has now purchased another FB1000 load carrier from Bradshaw Electric Vehicles for use at Kew Bridge West Development.
productLTM becomes Plsneta Hebetechnik agent
Lift Turn Move Limited has became the UK and Ireland agent for Planeta Hebetechnik, which manufactures hoists and other lifting equipment. The agreement adds explosion proof manual chain hoists up to 10t capacity and air hoists up to 25t capacity to LTM’s product offering, as well as ultra low headroom chain hoists.
productSecond mobile harbour crane
Terex Port Solutions (TPS) has received an order from Hans Lehmann KG (Lehmann) for a second diesel-electric G HMK 5506 variant of the Tere® Gottwald Model 5 mobile harbour crane.
productMobile sand filling
Sheffield rail depot equipment specialist, Mechan, has completed its first order for a mobile sand filling system. The firm has supplied two sand carts to Midland Metro’s Wednesbury depot in the West Midlands, to replenish stocks on new trams serving Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
articlePort of Felixstowe buys four reachstackers
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, will deliver four reachstackers for laden handling to the Port of Felixstowe in the UK.
productHydraulic hoists
Hoists incorporating the latest generation of super silent hydraulics have now been added to the J D Neuhaus Profi and EH monorail hoist ranges, with units providing 75 and 100t lift capacities.
productWorld record lift
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has entered the record books thanks to the heavy lift capabilities of its latest reachstacker, named Super Gloria. The reachstacker lifted a steel component weighing over 100t in front of an invited audience at Kalmar’s multi-assembly unit in Lidhult, Sweden.
productElectric chain hoist
Available from Lift Turn Move (LTM), the GPM is the latest product from the GIS production line in Schötz, Switzerland and is the first model of the new GP electric chain hoist generation, designed to fit under existing capacity ranges.
articleHelp for overhead lifting operations
Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) Operations Manager John Williams offers sensible and practical advice on overhead lifting.
productNew generation Demag V -type crane
Terex Material Handling has launched the new generation Demag V-type crane, the design of which uses less material, helping to reduce the depletion of raw materials.
newsTractors and platform trucks launch
Linde Material Handling is launching a new product family of tractors and platform trucks onto the market.
newsGerman handling equipment manufacturer plans UK launch
LKE Group has targeted the UK to help in its bid to double turnover over the next five years.
