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Manitowoc Enhances Crawler Crane Range at Crane Days With MLC100-1 →

Manitowoc's new MLC100-1 crawler crane has a 110 ton capacity and was designed to be erected and decommissioned faster than any other crawler crane in its class. Manitowoc has revealed the newest addition to its award-winning range of crawler cranes: the Manitowoc MLC100-1 crawler crane. The company debuted the crane at its Crane Days event in Shady Grove, Pa., showing how it's the quickest crane to erect and decommission in its class, saving lifters valuable time on the job site. Click for more...

Manitowoc Introduces the Long-Reaching National Crane NBT50L Series Boom Trucks at Crane Days 2018 →

The new National Crane NBT50L Series of boom trucks offers a longer reach than the original NBT50 Series. The NBT50L Series offers multiple configurations for maximum flexibility — each machine can be set up with a 50-ton or 55-ton rating and be configured to operate as an NTC truck crane/boom truck hybrid. NBT50L Series boom trucks are the first National Crane machines to feature an offsettable lattice jib. Click for more...

Demag AC 500-8 All Terrain Crane Erects Tower Crane in the Middle of Stuttgart →

You would be hard-pressed to find a place in Germany that is as busy and congested as the area around the main train station in Stuttgart. And that is exactly where Bietigheim-Bissingen-based crane service provider Wiesbauer had to erect a 295 ft. (90-m)-tall top-slewing tower crane for construction company STRABAG-Züblin and STRABAG-BMTI. For the challenging project, Wiesbauer decided on its Demag AC 500-8 all terrain crane for a number of reasons, including its compact design and the associated maneuverability. Click for more...

Crane Norway Group Orders Demag All Terrain Cranes, CC 3800-1 Crawler Crane →

Norwegian Crane Norway Group has signed an order for 10 new Demag all terrain cranes, ranging from 110 to 275.5 ton (100 to 250 t) lifting capacities and a new 716.5 ton (650-t) Demag CC 3800-1 crawler crane. "We have a significant number of new Demag all terrain cranes in our fleet," said Crane Norway Group CEO Trond Helge Skretting. "The Crane Norway Group has shown its continuous support and believes in the Demag line of products by ordering these cranes. Click for more...

HTC-86110 Covers Eastern Slope for RMS Cranes →

RMS Cranes, Denver, Colo., merged with TNT Crane and Rigging of Houston, Texas, in 2015 to form a network providing 38 branch locations. RMS Cranes' Windsor, Colo., location received a new 110-ton (100-t) HTC-86110 for its taxi crane needs, servicing a boundary east and west of I-25 and north of Boulder, Colo., in northern Colorado. "We have gone to Link-Belt cranes because it's the right combination for us. Click for more...

Previous TCC-500 Experience Leads to Purchase in Knoxville →

Charles Blalock & Sons of Sevierville, Tenn., was awarded contract for a portion of a multi-phase $71 million contract to realign and improve 1.69 miles of SR115/Alcoa Hwy south of downtown Knoxville, Tenn. One stretch of the new road requires retaining walls be 65 ft. (19.8 m) tall. In order to handle the steep and narrow access roads at the top of the hillside, Blalock & Sons purchased a 50-ton Link-Belt TCC-500 telescopic crawler crane. Click for more...

Crane Board Names SEI's Mike Becker to PA State Board of Crane Operators →

Mike Becker, CCO trainer at Stephenson Equipment's Harrisburg branch, was appointed to the PA Board of Crane Operators in March 2018. The primary purpose of the Board is to assure all crane operators in Pennsylvania are certified and subsequently licensed. Requiring crane operators to be certified and licensed requires crane operators to be better trained which leads to safer operation. Becker has more than 20 years of crane experience and has worked at Stephenson Equipment since 2012. Click for more...

Scott-Macon Equipment Adds Two More Demag AC 220-5 All Terrain Cranes to Inventory →

Scott-Macon Equipment, a Gulf Coast crane sales, rental and service company, is adding a pair of Demag AC 220-5 all terrain cranes to its existing order of an AC 160-5 and AC 220-5. Scott-Macon Equipment's new 245 tons (220 t) capacity class Demag AC 220-5 all terrain cranes have a main boom length of 255.9 ft (78 m) — the longest main boom reach of any 5-axle crane on the market. Also, the cranes can be extended to a full 324.8 ft. Click for more...

Akron Children's Hospital Addition Approaches Completion →

Akron Children's Hospital is eagerly awaiting the addition to the existing Considine Professional Building by Welty Building Company Ltd. The $82 million, 230,000 sq. ft. addition began in March 2017 and will be completed in the summer of 2018. The new addition continues the campus transformation that began in 2012 with the Kay Jewelers Pavilion. This building included a new emergency department, neonatal intensive care unit and GOJO Outpatient Surgery Center. Click for more...

BAR-S Services' ATC-3275 on the Clock for 96 Hours →

Cheyenne, Wyo.-based BAR-S Services (BAR-S) took ownership of a new 275-ton (250-t) ATC-3275 all-terrain crane from Link-Belt distributor Strong's Crane Service. In its nearly third decade of operation (founded in 1990), BAR-S specializes in erecting and dismantling oil rigs, supporting the oil and gas industry in northeastern Colorado and Wyoming. When not supporting the oil and gas industry, the company operates its new ATC-3275 as a taxi crane covering a 300 mile working radius. Click for more...

OSHA Proposes Rule to Ensure Crane Operators Are Qualified To Safely Operate Equipment →

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced a proposed rule to increase the safety of America's construction sites. In addition to providing long-term clarity regarding crane operator certification requirements, the proposal reinstates the employer duty to ensure that a crane operator is qualified to safely operate equipment. Under the proposed rule, a change to the categories of certifications for crane operators would ensure more operators are able to meet the requirement. Click for more...

Maeda Mini Cranes Appoints ALL Erection & Crane Rental as Its Authorized Dealer →

Maeda USA's entire line of Maeda mini cranes will now be available for sale in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ontario Province, Canada, through its partnership with ALL Erection & Crane Rental. Based in Independence, Ohio, ALL Erection & Crane Rental started small in 1964 with just one crane and grew to large family-owned corporation with 1,500 employees and 37 locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin and throughout Canada. Click for more...

MDOT River Bridge Replacement Continues →

The Michigan Department of Transportation's (MDOT) $20.5 million U.S. 2 Escanaba River Bridge Replacement in Wells Township of Delta County, a project awarded to Zenith Tech Inc., is scheduled to be completed in October 2018. The highlight of the project has been the successful lifting of the 200,000 lb. steel superstructure of the rail bridge, which will be reused at another location as the backbone of a new structure. Click for more...

New York State Fairgrounds to Gain New Expo Center →

Big things are coming to the New York State Fairgrounds. So big, in fact, that the new expo center being built on the grounds is being touted as “the largest event facility north of New York City and between Boston and Cleveland” by the NYS Fairgrounds website. The 136,000-sq.-ft. building is part of Phase II of Gov. Cuomo's plan to revitalize the nation's oldest state fair and fairgrounds in a comprehensive strategy to revitalize communities and grow the economy. Click for more...

New Demag AC 220-5 All Terrain Crane for Concast →

Dublin-based Irish company Concast Precast took delivery of a brand new Demag AC 220-5 all terrain crane in March 2018. Terex Cranes Sales Manager Lyle Sibbald and Terex Cranes Service Engineer Anthony Mullin handed over the crane to Bernard Quinn, who is the CFO of the Irish precast concrete construction company. “The main reason we decided on the AC 220-5 was the high quality and associated reliability of Demag cranes. Click for more...

Contractors Use a Grove to Assemble a Manitowoc on Tough, Uneven Terrain →

Mosites Construction & Development Company (Mosites) is working on a $93 million infrastructure project that will add seven new bridges along 4 mi. of highway on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Pittsburgh. The pier caps of the first bridge have already been completed, and two Manitowoc cranes — a Manitowoc MLC165-1 and a Grove GHC75 — were crucial to the success of the project. The Pittsburgh-based company chose the MLC165-1 to build the pier caps, but conditions on the job site made erecting the 182-ton (165 t) crawler crane difficult. Click for more...

VIDEO: Will They Make It? 4 Enormous Cranes Sail Carefully Beneath Two Bridges →

Four large cranes were carefully barged under two Staten Island bridges April 26. The equipment holds the title for the largest pre-assembled cranes to ever pass beneath the Bayonne Bridge since its 2017 elevation to 215 ft. above the Kill Van Kull, SI Live reported. The time-lapse video shows the cranes passing beneath first the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at about 10:30 a.m. and then the Bayonne Bridge at around 11:45 a.m. Click for more...

110RT Works in Wasatch Mountains in Utah →

Big-D Construction of Salt Lake City, Utah, recently took ownership of a new 110-ton (100-t) 110RT rough terrain crane for a project in northern Utah. In order to accommodate the requirements of the 30-acre job site in a ravine in the Wasatch Mountains, Big-D Construction needed a crane with a small footprint with excellent reach to place more than 280,000 sq. ft. of heavy PERI forms for 18 in. (45.7 cm) thick reinforced concrete foundation walls. Click for more...

Phase Two of $700M 59/20 Bridges Project Nears Finish →

Phase two of the $700 million project to clean up traffic problems in downtown Birmingham is nearing completion as work on phase three continues to progress. The project, known as the 59/20 Bridges, includes widening roads, elevating bridges, constructing new interchange ramps and replacing bridges over portions of I-59/20 and I-65. Work on phase one was completed in the fall of 2016, with work on phase two set to be finished this summer. Click for more...

Renegar-Driggers Machinery Grows Crane Inventory With Demag All Terrain Cranes Order →

Southeastern USA and Caribbean Island Terex Cranes distributor Renegar-Driggers will soon add six new Demag all terrain cranes to its inventory, including one AC 100-4L unit, two AC 160-5 models and three AC 220-5 units. The recently placed order will help Renegar-Driggers Machinery continue to support its customers and their heavy workload. Demag all terrain cranes are equipped with the industry's latest technology, including a single engine concept that reduces operational and maintenance costs by using an intelligent motor management system to deliver the precise amount of power needed on the road and for lifting applications. Click for more...

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