Site Reports

Modulift, a market-leading manufacturer of modular spreader beams, has recently finished testing  an MOD 1100/2000t modular spreader beam. Currently the largest supplied standard beam in the Modulift range, with a lifting capacity of 2000t, the MOD 1100 has been ordered by a Belgian client for offshore monopile installations. The 30m-long beam comes complete with DNV […]

The traditional Bavarian beer brewed by Hofbräuhaus Traunstein is loaded onto the delivery truck with the same care and expertise with which it is made. The truck mounted forklift F3 151 with Silent Pack from Palfinger enables the safe, quiet and user-friendly delivery of a key Bavarian product. For more than 400 years, Hofbräuhaus Traunstein […]

Notus Contract Lifting has over 60 years’ combined experience delivering contract lifting solutions. The company specialises in ensuring that lifting requirements are executed safely and in line with a project’s operational and commercial demands. As a fully independent business, Notus can offer each customer a completely unbiased, evidence-based technical proposal, meaning the correct equipment is […]

Osprey Group, one of the UK’s leading specialist logistics firms, has invested in an Enerpac JS-250 Jack-Up system with a lifting capacity of 1000t. The 4-tower JS-250 is a compact and easily transportable solution suitable for many infrastructure and industrial projects. The multi-point, synchronous lifting system enables lifts to a height of 10m, with the […]

An overhead crane from R&M Materials Handling is helping one of America’s leading craft breweries with a custom beer-making process. Created in 1997, Founders Brewing now ranks among the top 10 largest craft breweries in the USA. It is located in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan with an additional brewing facility and taproom in Detroit. The […]

Two Modulift spreader beams were used to perform a 2420t load test by Modulift’s partner Liftek International in Dubai. Based in Poole, Dorset, UK, Modulift, a market-leading manufacturer of modular spreader beams, was recently involved in an exceptionally heavy load test in Dubai. Two MOD 1000 spreader beams were used in a crucifix configuration to […]

Menzel Elektromotoren has manufactured four crane motors with the exact electrical and mechanical interfacing positions of a make that is no longer available today. The new slip ring motors based on a cost-efficient motor series will drive hoists on overhead cranes in a Chilean cement plant. Since standard motors do not fit the existing positions […]

More precise spreader beams have enabled complex lifting operations for a contractor working on HS2. The HS2 is Britain’s new high speed rail line being built from London to the North-West, with HS2 trains linking the biggest cities in Scotland, Manchester, Birmingham and London. It is the largest infrastructure project in Europe and said to […]

Lifting equipment specialist Britlift is supporting an attempt to break the outright world water speed record for the fastest boat in the world. Longbow, a pure thrust jet hydroplane, is currently under construction on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire and aims to become the fastest vessel on water. The record currently stands at 317mph, set in 1978 by […]

Casper, Phillips & Associates Inc (CP&A) has completed procurement and design review services related to 10 rail-mounted gantry (RMG) cranes, manufactured by Konecranes, for Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA) Mason Mega Rail project in Savannah, USA. The Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal was already the southeast’s busiest intermodal gateway, but GPA has implemented a series […]