William Hackett, a world-leader in the development and manufacture of offshore lifting hoists and chains, has launched the SSL5, incorporating its patented quad pawl (QP) mechanism. The company says that it is the safest and most efficient offshore and subsea lever hoist in the world. Ben Burgess, director at William Hackett says, “It’s a piece […]

LiftEx 2019 is LEEA’s free-to-attend event taking place at the Marshall Arena (formerly Arena MK) in Milton Keynes on 13-14 November 2019. This year the global gathering for the lifting industry will be part of LEEA’s 75th anniversary celebrations. The Lifting Equipment sector is involved in a broad array of end-user markets including: rail, construction, renewable […]

Jungheinrich continued to grow in the first nine of months of 2019 with revenue rising 10% to €2.97 billion. The main driver of this growth was the new truck business. Incoming order numbers fell to 94,100 units (previous year: 100,600 units), while the value of orders grew 1% to €3.01 billion. The forecast for 2019 […]

Linde Material Handling has added a new generation of IC counterbalance trucks to its portfolio, creating, what the company is calling – a fit-for-the-future “Swiss Army knife” of intralogistics. The forklifts, in the load capacity range between 2 to 3.5t  and called H20 – H35, are fully networked in preparation for all conceivable applications in […]