A properly maintained hoist, used as it should be by a trained and competent operator, is generally speaking a safe machine. Nevertheless its purpose is to lift a load to a height, which is an ...

Mining is a specialised business that requires specialised lifting equipment. (Credit: Manfred Antranias Zimmer from Pixabay) Mining is more than dark underground tunnels of men with picks and ...

The Panama Canal is one of the two most strategic artificial waterways critical to global maritime trade, the other being the Suez Canal. It is the shortest operative route connecting maritime trade ...

The division will be based at a 4,800 square metre hub in Birmingham with the company saying it has more than 25 trained hoist engineers across its network. The Birmingham location will be followed by ...

US-based The Caldwell Group has partnered with distributors on the east and west coast of the country to deliver its Posi-Turner product to two heavy truck manufacturers in the past year. The ...

American Equipment, based in Salt Lake City, UT, provides a one-stop-shop for all overhead crane and hoist needs, including new equipment design, engineering and fabrication, system modernization, ...

It is the nature of the entertainment industry that there are frequent situations where companies find it necessary to either move or suspend a significant load above the people on a theatre or arena ...

An expert crane operator, with years of experience, can handle all this and move his complicated load without it swaying. (Credit: 652234/Pixabay) Hoist Magazine began writing about anti-sway systems ...

The new Fast Find tool gives customers instant online access to distributor pricing and product availability and is part of the company’s online Distributor Portal. Lisa Sympson, marketing manager at ...

It is not long ago that digital control systems began appearing on overhead cranes. They offered such things as anti-sway control, collision prevention and true vertical lifting of loads – all of them ...

The jacking system contains a dedicated proprietary control system that optimises the system’s load distribution, specifically for turbine and foundation installation. (Credit: Glennyman/Wikipedia) ...

As many Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (Leea) members will be aware, the current European Commission Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC is being converted into a ‘regulation’, which contains some ...