Tadano is investing $2.5 million to expand its Mantis crawler crane plant in Richlands, Virginia, adding at least 25 new jobs. Mantis is based in Franklin, Tennessee, and apparently considered adding capacity in either of its two locations, but chose Virginia which offered a number of grants and other financial aid. The announcement of the expansion was jointly made by Virginia’s governor Terry McAuliffe and Tadano’s Shiro Morita. McAuliffe said, “I am thrilled to announce this win for Tazewell County, creating 21st century jobs in … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2015
Liebherr opens maritime centre
Liebherr Africa has opened a new maritime crane sales and service centre in Durban, South Africa. Located just outside of Durban, the new centre will offer sales, service and spare parts for all maritime products throughout southern Africa. As well as providing operator, technician and service staff training it will also feature maritime crane simulators for virtual training of ship to shore cranes, mobile harbour cranes, rubber tyre gantry cranes and offshore cranes. The company said one of the main drivers for the new centre was a … [Read more...]
Grove GHC demo launch
Manitowoc has launched the new Sennebogen built GHC series of telescopic crawler cranes to dealers and customers at an event at its Shady Grove factory plant. The company used the Research & Development facility at the plant for introduction, with a full audio and video set-up that included lights, music and projection screens. A curtain dropped to a drum roll and attendees were invited to check out the new cranes. All three models, the 50 tonne GHC55, 70 tonne GHC75 and 120 tonne GHC130, were on show at the event which was also … [Read more...]
40t Tadano for Ellis
UK based crane hire company Ellis Crane Hire has taken delivery of a 40 tonne Tadano ATF 40G-2 All Terrain crane. The compact two axle crane features a 35.2 metre main boom plus a nine metre swingaway which can be offset by zero, 20 and 40 degrees. Joint company director Simon Ellis, said: “We have looked at Tadano and had conversations with them for many years. We have a strong sector of work with two axle machines and felt the time was right to enhance our fleet with a Tadano. The crane has an impressive duty chart and compact … [Read more...]
First Grove for Horizon
Falkirk, Scotland based Horizon Reinforcing and Crane Hire has taken delivery of its first Grove crane – a 300 tonne GMK6300L All Terrain. The six-axle GMK6300L features a seven section, 80 metre main boom and a 29 metre bi-fold swingaway extension an boasts a 120 metre maximum tip height. Features include Megatrak independent suspension and all-wheel steering. Run by the Dougall family, Horizon has a fleet of 12 cranes which is topped by the GMK6300L. Established in 1973 the company also deals in the steel reinforcing industry. … [Read more...]
Dropped beam proves fatal
A 20 metre steel I-beam slipped from a mobile crane in Barra Mansa to the south of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last month killing an elderly pedestrian. The beam - part of a steel building - was being lifted by a Sany truck crane owned by the rental company Jocar, when its slipped out of the slings and dropped into the street below. It landed on a woman, Orecina Marta de Souza, 79, killing her instantly. The incident occurred on Friday the 13th as she walked past the construction site - a hotel - with her son when it happened. He was also … [Read more...]