A crane or hoist with a hook on the end seems a clear and simple solution. (Credit: Glenn van de Wiel on Unsplash) A crane or hoist with a hook on the end seems a clear and simple solution to most ...

Thomas Weston, Alton Shaw and Alfred Box are among the founding fathers of the modern industrial lifting industry, and their enterprise eventually all came together in the US company Yale Lift-Tech.

While spreader and lifting beams are two different types of below-the-hook lifting devices, used to stabilize and support a load during an overhead lift, both keep lifting slings below at or near a ...

An average-sized tunnel boring machine (TBM) might be roughly 6m in diameter and weigh 400 metric tons. Judged on weight alone, even the very largest of TBM components is well within the capabilities ...

Load sway or swing, on cranes, is basically a pendulum effect where the load moves independently of the crane. This does not always matter whilst the load is in the air, although significant swing may ...

The automation-ready lifting tong can be adapted to a rigid mast crane, a wire rope hoist, or an existing crane, in various capacities and duty cycles. (Cjp24/Wikipedia) Loads come in almost infinite ...

In legislation and standards remote controls are usually referred to as cable-less controllers. There are variations in the capability of the products on the market, and therefore choices to be made ...

Each beam of a gantry crane supports a main hoist and an auxiliary hoist. Both the main hoist and the auxiliary hoist are coupled to the beam by a trolley assembly for effecting lateral movement of ...

Breakbulk Americas brings the industry together for what promises to be another excellent event. Dockside Lift & Move highlights some of the best reasons why you should be a part of it.

Using a hoist underwater presents a range of challenges, from the physical issue of manoeuvring a lever while wearing thick gloves, through to the damage saline ocean water can do to equipment that ...

Three stories that have appeared in the UK press this year highlight the dangers of forklift trucks and the need to follow safety practices. (Credit: Bruno Guerrero on Unsplash) As reported in the ...

As part of the process of preparing waste from Hinkley Point A and Berkeley for long-term storage, Magnox commissioned modular intermediatelevel waste encapsulation plants (MILWEP) that would package ...