Every industry has its common terminology, and in lifting, a great deal of it will crop up in manuals, brochures, articles, reports and websites. It is, of course, the essential parlance that is ...

Africa has too frequently been thought of solely as a market for exporting to, receiving goods and services from elsewhere. It has, though, its own long-established manufacturers, who themselves ...

Co-located with the International Awards for Powered Access, the IPAF Summit 2024 collects senior representatives from the access community to discuss the latest developments. This discussion provides ...

Braaten.technology, a start-up company from Norway, has developed an underwater load cell designed to handle lifting operations at sea. The company argues that accurate weight control underwater has ...

Traditionally, crane main girders are manufactured manually by riveters and welders, resulting in a labour-intensive industry characterised by high costs, low efficiency and unstable quality. However, ...

Editor’s comment: Two forklift accidents and one tragedy Three stories that have appeared in the UK press this year highlight the dangers of forklift trucks and the need to follow safety practices.

Synthetic webbing as a rigging device would avoid the abrasion risk, but would still leave the other disadvantages. We begin to see the need for specialist devices. Of which there are many. The C-hook ...

Operating out of Fort Worth, Ace World Companies has been supplying overhead cranes, electric wire rope hoists, and end trucks to a range of industries since 1987. Last year marked 35 years since the ...

Abus, for instance, make portable cranes to order, to the width and height that you specify, up to a beam length of 7,900mm (depending on the load capacity) and a height of 5m; the maximum load ...

A report from market intelligence and consulting services provider Contrive Datum Insights (CDI) projects that the global offshore crane market will be worth $35.17bn by 2030, registering a CAGR of ...

Overhead crane knowledge – Richard Phillips, mechanical engineer, CP&A Working for a company that offers a wide variety of services, including procurement, specification, design, manufacturing review, ...