heavy lifting

America’s Portland International Airport, commonly referred to as PDX anticipates substantial growth over the next two decades. It is scaling up in preparation to better serve 35 million passengers annually by undergoing a main terminal expansion project – nearly doubling its size. A key component of this expansion is the construction of a new, seismically […]

America’s Portland International Airport, commonly referred to as PDX anticipates substantial growth over the next two decades. It is scaling up in preparation to better serve 35 million passengers annually by undergoing a main terminal expansion project – nearly doubling its size. A key component of this expansion is the construction of a new, seismically […]

Industrial movers have a new option for moving machines and equipment in restricted spaces. The Enerpac MLS-Series wheeled load skates are a safe and stable option for machinery relocation and installation in a wide range of individual load skate capacities from 3 to 35t. When it comes to safety, the MLS-Series features a stable, wide […]

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 […]

KenzFigee, a well-established lifting, handling and service specialist of tailor-made equipment for the marine, offshore and wind energy industry, signed a contract with Iv-Offshore & Energy to deliver an electric hydraulic Ram Luffing offshore crane for installation on the state-of-the-art HVDC offshore converter platform for Sofia Offshore Wind Farm, to be sited on Dogger Bank […]

The Verlinde open winch series is now extended for heavy duty applications with the PDW series. This range of open winches provides a technical answer to lifting applications in a range of capacities from 6.3 to 70t, with duty classifications up to M6. Among the technical characteristics as standard in the range of Verlinde PDW […]

An Enerpac push-pull system has been used to construct the world’s largest observation wheel. Opening mid-October, the Ain Dubai observation wheel is over 250m tall, significantly higher than the 168m, High Roller observation wheel in Las Vegas, and almost twice the height of the London Eye. Constructing the world’s largest and tallest observation wheel is […]

Enerpac has enhanced the ETR-Series Trolley System with higher capacity trolleys and swivel plates to accommodate header beams and other lifting systems With a 50t (500kN) and now 100t (1000kN) capacity per trolley, the electrically driven trolleys can carry heavy loads up to 800t (8000kN) horizontally in a continuous smooth movement, including acceleration and deceleration. […]

Hungarian heavy lifting and machine assembly specialist, Megakran Plc, relied upon its Enerpac SL400N hydraulic gantry to move an 85t sheet metal press between factories located in Somogy County in southwest Hungary. The SL400N gantry provided easier access to the press than using a mobile crane. With a large vehicle production industry, Hungary is one […]

Unipart Rail and Unipart Manufacturing Group have successfully built their first McCulloch Rail Panel Lifter at a new production facility in Coventry. The new Panel Lifter production line is a unique collaboration bringing together the Panel Lifter technology of McCulloch Rail, the automotive industry experience of Unipart Manufacturing Group, and the global customer network of […]