Site Reports

Liebherr Container Cranes and Montreal Gateway Terminals Partnership (MGT) have announced the signing of a contract for the supply of four large ship to shore (STS) container cranes to the Cast Container Terminal in Montreal, Canada. The Port of Montreal has experienced increased container traffic for a number of years and forecasts show that this […]

Concrete is the foundation of the German company Tenwinkel GmbH & Co.KG, which develops and manufactures concrete counterweights, moulded parts and technical components and is the world leader in its market. Established over 60 years ago it continues to be a family run operation headed up by brothers Stefan and Markus Tenwinkel. Based not far […]

Stainless steel manual brake winches from OZ Lifting Products LLC are an integral component of a patented kayak launch from Golden Boat Lifts. The Fort Myers, Florida-based marine products manufacturer installs the winches to control up and down movement as kayaks weighing up to 250lb. are lowered and raised from water. The 1000lb. capacity OZ1000BWSS […]

Intu Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Dudley, UK puts on a spectacular display of decorations every Christmas and has hired UK powered access rental company, Star Platforms for the best part of 20 years to help facilitate this.  Spanning over 1,671,000sqft and two floors, the shopping centre is home to a retail park with more […]

Working with its dealer, Lloyds British, Metreel has secured an order to supply a 1000kg SWL Powered Travel Met-Track Workstation Bridge Crane to a blue chip aerospace manufacturer. The end user was so impressed with the product, it has ordered a second identical system for use in a parallel production line. Using steel A-frames to […]

Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd (RSS) installed a 50t test vessel at a specialist manufacturer of military, nuclear and oil and gas equipment in mid-Scotland this month. A supplier of lifting and rigging equipment and related services, RSS fulfilled the contract for the undisclosed customer, working a prolonged shift to oversee the installation of the […]

Montreal-based AGF Access Group has been awarded a sub-contract by Aecon to fabricate two customised Winsafe upper feeder platforms for the Bruce Power’s Major Component Replacement (MCR), a project that involves the refurbishment of six nuclear reactor units.  The two suspended platforms, based on a modular concept, will be used to provide access inside the […]

Subsea construction often requires specialised equipment and Oceaneering International used four 10-tonne capacity remotely operated vehicle (ROV) hooks supplied by RUD recently, to fulfill two major subsea contracts in the Gulf of Mexico. Oceaneering was contracted by a major offshore oil and gas company to deploy six LBL array Compatt frames (a transponder used for […]

Bohl Crane has been an R&M Materials Handling Master Distributor for over 20 years and in that time it has used R&M’s crane components to partner with thousands of companies to provide custom solutions for overhead lifting challenges and projects. Recently Bohl Crane completed a third major custom engineered overhead lifting equipment installation at TH […]

Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd (RSS) delivered a series of testing and inspection services to Galvanize UK’s hot-dip galvanising plant in South Kirkby, UK in November. RSS completed tests on a variety of equipment, including testing stands, trestles, and a dross spoon, in addition to Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) tests prior […]