Kobe Steel, parent of Kobelco Cranes, has published its third quarter results, showing a sharp rise in profits within the crane business. Total crane sales for the nine months to the end December were ¥51.7 billion ($440.6 million), an increase of 29.8 percent on the same period last year. Operating profit for the nine months leapt 75 percent to ¥4.5 billion ($38.3 million) with the rising trend continuing during the third and into the fourth quarter. The company said: “The strong sales are due to higher shipments of crawler cranes in … [Read more...]
Stevenson Crane adds 9 Terex RTs to fleet
Stevenson Crane Service has nine new Terex rough terrain cranes available for nationwide rental as of Tuesday, Jan. 27. The new additions include three 30-ton Terex RT 230s, two 55-ton RT 555s, two 70-ton RT 670s and two 80-ton RT 780s. The new equipment will provide enhanced performance and allow for increased availability to better serve contractors and users in need of the most advanced lifting equipment. … [Read more...]
Link-Belt RTC-8050 for Expertise
Saudi Arabia based rental company Expertise Industrial Services has purchased a 50 tonne Link-Belt RTC-8050 Series II Rough Terrain crane for work at the Sadara Chemical company’s massive new chemical complex – the Jubail Industrial City. The crane was purchased from local Link-Belt distributor Bakheet Company for Machinery, Expertise said that one of the main reasons for selecting the Link-Belt, was the support it receives from Bakheet. Sadara Chemical is a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical. … [Read more...]
Grove cranes powering LGN construction
Australian crane company Universal Cranes is using two 120t Grove RT9130E-2 rough terrain cranes to build an on-shore LGN (liquefied natural gas) facility in Darwin, northern Australia. The cranes, which are regularly operating with their full boom length of 48m, arrived at the construction site at the start of 2014 after being transported 3,500km across the country. They will continue installing an underground network of piping and equipment for at least the next two years, working for Leighton Contractors. The development, which is now … [Read more...]
Crane Rental bolsters fleet with five new cranes
Crane Rental Corporation, based in Orlando, Florida, has further expanded its fleet with the purchase of five cranes. The company added a 275t Manitowoc 999 crawler crane; a 230t Link-Best LS-298 crawler; two 130t Grove RT9130E hydraulic rough-terrain cranes; and an 80t Grove RT880E hydraulic rough-terrain crane. The move was made in response to "increasing demand in almost every sector of our industry", said company president Alan Ashlock. Crane Rental had already expanded its fleet this year, purchasing cranes including a Peiner … [Read more...]
New Grove fleet helps Peru copper mine expand
A new fleet of Grove rough-terrain cranes is helping one of Peru’s largest copper mines to triple its production output. The Gove RT9130Es, RT880Es and RT765E-2s were assembled at Manitowoc's factory in Passo Fundo, Brazil and supplied to Graña y Montero Holdings' (GyM) copper and molybdenum mi ning complex in southern Peru. The units are assisting the company with the US$4.6bn mine expansion project, which will enable GyM to expand output from 120,000t to 360,000 per day, providing additional annual production of 272,000t of copper and … [Read more...]