Ainscough

Ainscough Crane Hire, alongside MGF, has won the Lifting Operations Award at this year’s Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) awards ceremony, for its work on the Anfield expansion project at the Liverpool Football Club ground. As the largest Trade Association in the lifting industry, the LEEA Awards look to recognise members who have done the […]

Ainscough Crane Hire has successfully launched an offshore wind farm service vessel for Manor Marine, a new customer that specialises in ship building and marine engineering. The vessel, which was built for offshore services provider Mainprize Offshore, has a cargo capacity of 40t, seating for 24 passengers, 175sqm of deck space and a maximum speed of 27 knots. The […]

Ainscough Crane Hire’s Heavy Cranes team joined forces with Gilpin Demolition and Dorset Council to remove a sunken fishing vessel from Weymouth Harbour. The boat, called FV Gitte and built in 1982, was a former Danish trawler that was 17.7m in length. It had been moored up in the harbour behind Weymouth Pavilion since being […]

Machinery moving and installation specialist Ainscough Industrial Services has taken delivery of a new generation 21t Manitex Valla 210R  crane – the very first to come off the production line. The industrial crane was sold to Ainscough Industrial Services by Manitex Valla Cranes’ UK and Ireland distributor, Hird. It is one of the first machines […]

Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd (RSS) has been delivering spreader beams, slings, shackles, and related Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) inspections to the project for almost a year, as work at the undisclosed site continues. Ron Harrison, regional manager, Rotherham (UK) depot at RSS, says, “We provide the lifting gear, and they […]