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Southeastern Crane Opens Charleston Branch, Announces Personnel Changes →

Southeastern Crane recently expanded into the Charleston, SC, area with the opening of a branch office in Ladson, approximately 12 miles west of the city. As the Grove distributor for the state, Southeastern Crane established the store to fulfill a requirement for the South Carolina dealership. Vice President and General Manager Dallas Johnson noted that Southeastern Crane will lease the facility until a permanent location is determined. Click for more...

Bryson Crane Helps Speed Raceway Job Toward Finish Line →

In the late 1800s, the area now known as Daytona Beach, FL, caught the attention of mogul Mathias Day, who built the town’s first hotel, the Palmetto House, in 1874. The area has since drawn entrepreneurs and vacationers alike –– and like so much of Florida, Daytona Beach has expanded with the demand. In 1980, taking note of the business potential, Jimmy and Mike Bryson uprooted their 25-year-old Nashville, TN-based business, Bryson Crane Service, and moved it south. Click for more...

Atlantic Coast Cranes Prospers in Both Good, Bad Economies →

T.S. Elliot once wrote: “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” For Wally Jones, founder and current president of Ashland, VA-based Atlantic Coast Cranes & Machinery Inc. (ACC), this philosophy could not resonate more true. In 1991, Jones, along with long-time colleague Dennis Samuel, rented a small office and started the fledgling crane dealership with two lines –– American Crane products and JLG boom trucks. Click for more...

Jersey’s Hoffman Equipment Earns Manitowoc Crane CARE ’Elite’ Status →

One of Hoffman Equipment’s major achievements during its first year of representing Grove and Manitowoc was earning special recognition from Manitowoc as a Crane CARE “Elite” dealer. “Elite” status means that Hoffman has satisfied a detailed set of Manitowoc specifications relevant to total support of the manufacturer’s products. Specifics include:• technicians continuing advanced training (10 Hoffman technicians participated in 17 factory schools during 2004), • replacement parts inventory levels and customer order fill rates, • modern tooling, and• ability to perform complicated repairs in the field and communications capacity and utilization (field technicians are required to have Internet access to the factory via laptops and cell phones). Click for more...

ALL Crane Celebrates 40 Years of Growth, Achievement →

Our nation was founded on the idea that it is every man and woman’s right to live freely, prospering in a fair and open society. It was in this belief that as a free nation we could work hard and use our freedom to achieve our dreams and improve our lives, as well as improve our country. And it is because of this belief that many business startups in this country turn into tales of success. Such is the case with ALL Erection & Crane Rental Corp., which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Click for more...

Grove Provides Muscle for Lee Hi’s VA Crane Business →

Robert Berkstresser is in the crane business. He’s also in the towing business ... and the excavating business ... and the equipment rental business. Berkstresser’s office sits on the property of his trucking operation and travel plaza, which is attached to his restaurant, appropriately named Berky’s Restaurant, which offers dinner specials every evening. Behind Berky’s and beyond the machine shop, Berkstresser’s campground climbs the side of a hill. Click for more...

Crane, Boring Rig Combo Drop Shafts in Tight Quarters →

To sink a pair of 6.5-ft-diameter open shafts 250 ft., mostly through rock, a specialty contractor is using a compact dry boring rig originally designed for cast-in-place piles. Raito Inc., Geosystems Construction Specialists, the American arm of a Japan-based construction firm, is installing two concrete-lined vent and drop shafts for the new Combined Sewer Overflow tunnel in Providence, RI. Raito’s U.S. Click for more...

Manitowoc, Shuttlelift Sign Industrial Crane Supply Agreement →

Manitowoc Crane Group signed an agreement with Shuttlelift Inc., a subsidiary of Marine Travelift Inc., under which Shuttlelift will supply a line of industrial cranes to Manitowoc. The cranes will be sold under the Grove brand name. Manitowoc and Shuttlelift expect to introduce seven models of industrial cranes, ranging in capacity from 8.5 to 20 tons (18 t) beginning in the third quarter of 2004. Click for more...

Testa Utilizes Grove GMK7550 Crane for Specialized Demolition on Big Dig →

Elevated highways in Boston, MA, are being torn down and replaced with tree-lined avenues and parks. One of Grove’s flagship units is helping make this idea become a reality months earlier than expected. A 550-ton (450 t) heavy-lift GMK7550 all-terrain crane from Grove is allowing contractor Testa Corp. to use its combined skills in demolition and craneage to demolish 1.5 mi. (2.4 km) of elevated highway in the heart of Boston. Click for more...

North Atlantic Machinery Teams With Powerscreen in Maine →

Gary Harmon, president of North Atlantic Machinery Inc., recently announced that his company has added the Powerscreen line of aggregate equipment to its list of product offerings. Harmon has been serving New England aggregate producers for the past 13 years and he has owned North Atlantic Machinery since 1997. He will be making the Powerscreen products available to all municipalities, contractors and producers in Maine. Click for more...

English Smoothes Out Another Stretch of Virginia’s I-95 →

A rebuild of another section of Virginia’s Interstate 95 is nearing completion. The project, which began in March 2001, involves the Atlee/Elmont Interchange. “The big picture is to shift the intersection north along I-95 to reduce the traffic congestion at the I-95/I-295 merge and to ease congestion from Route 1 along Sliding Hill Road past Lakeridge Parkway to the Sliding Hill Road/Atlee Station Road intersection,” explained Jeannette Coleman of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). Click for more...

Southeastern Crane Opens SC Branch, Named Potain Dealer →

Southeastern Crane recently expanded into the Charleston, SC, area with the opening of a branch office in Ladson. As Grove distributor for the state, Southeastern Crane established the store to fulfill a requirement for the South Carolina dealership. Southeastern Crane will lease the Ladson facility until a permanent location is determined, noted Vice President Dallas Johnson. "This property should serve us well for the next couple of years until we are able to purchase land and build our own facility," he said. Click for more...

Aquarium Expands on Banks of Tennessee River →

Sharks, stingray, eel and a number of other sea creatures will soon be living large in the Tennessee Aquarium's new $30 million tank and environs. The aquarium tells the story of the Tennessee River, following the journey of one raindrop beginning high in the Cove Forest in the Appalachian Mountains as it flows to the Gulf of Mexico. Crews started building the aquarium's newest building, which sits 75 ft. Click for more...

Pisani Crane Goes on Shopping Spree in New England →

The “American Dream” is alive and well and thriving in New England. For 20 years, Steve Pisani worked as a steel erector for a company that focused on crane rentals with an operator. In 2001, he saw an opportunity to start his own business with crane rentals and decided to seize the opportunity and founded Pisani Crane. At the time when Pisani was starting his company, a Massachusetts steel erection company, DFM Industries, owned by a cousin of Pisani, directed some work toward the fledgling company. Click for more...

Stockbridge Bottleneck Fix Forges Ahead With GDOT Incentive Plan →

As a resident of Henry County, GA, Bert Brantley knows firsthand how badly the Interstate 75/Eagle’s Landing Parkway interchange in Stockbridge needs the $24 million upgrading project in progress there. “There’s just too much traffic for the number of lanes now,” said Brantley, a spokesman for the Georgia Department of Transportation. “It’s a frequent bottleneck, literally a traffic choke point ... Click for more...

Binder Takes on Full Line of Kobelco, Tadano Cranes →

Binder Machinery Company, based in South Plainfield, NJ, was recently named dealer for Tadano and Kobelco cranes. Tadano manufactures rough-terrain, all-terrain and truck cranes, and Kobelco produces lattice-boom crawler cranes. Binder will carry the full Kobelco crawler crane line in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, New York City and Long Island as well as Sullivan, Ulster and Dutchess counties in New York, while the company will carry the complete Tadano crane line in Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania, as well as New Jersey. Click for more...

Atlanta Airport Prepares I-285 for Takeoffs →

Not many runway designs incorporate a tunnel, or move millions of cubic yards of fill dirt to the site on a conveyor belt. The fifth runway taking shape at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport boasts each of those characteristics. The project is part of a 10-year, $5.4-billion expansion of airport facilities and infrastructure on the 3,650 acres (1,518 ha) of airport property. The 80 million air travelers who pass through Atlanta each year are getting some fancy new facilities. Click for more...

Manitowoc Introduces 11 New Cranes at Bauma →

The Manitowoc Company Inc. announced that Manitowoc Crane Group (MCG) is introducing 11 new cranes at Bauma, the construction industry’s largest trade show. This is the first time all three of Manitowoc’s crane brands –– Manitowoc, Potain, and Grove –– are being shown together at Bauma. Manitowoc Crane Group is introducing new all-terrain, rough-terrain, crawler, and tower cranes at this year’s show. Click for more...

Construction Resumes at Sight of Deadly Crane Collapse →

TOLEDO, OH (AP) A state contractor began using a crane Saturday to lift pieces of an interstate bridge into place for the first time since a deadly crane collapse in February halted the project. The northbound lanes of Interstate 280 were closed at 6 a.m. so Fru-Con Construction Corp. could hang concrete bridge segments with the crane, said Ohio Department of Transportation spokesman Joe Rutherford. Click for more...

Easy-to-Transport Link-Belt Proves Valuable at AL Plant →

When James Guarnieri, executive vice president of BSE Industrial Contractors, began searching for a new lattice-boom truck crane, he knew that he wanted a low-weight machine that would be easy to transport. His company, which is a division of Birmingham Steel Erectors based in Birmingham, AL, specializes in commercial structural steel erection, industrial plant shutdown maintenance, plant renovation, machinery installation, heavy rigging and crane rental. Click for more...

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