Britlift helps keep train manufacturer’s lifting on track

CAF Rolling Stock UK produces trains for the UK market. The bodies, bogies and engines are manufactured at CAF facilities in Spain and France for assembly at its plant in Llanwern near Newport, Wales. Clients include Transport for Wales, which recently commissioned 180 new diesel trains from CAF. The Welsh facility runs two 25t cranes […]

31/01/2024 - 16:13 pm

Bathroom pod lifts made quicker with new modular system

A new modular system from Britlift is helping improve productivity for bathroom pod lifts in London. Rainbird Crane Services works predominantly in central London, specialising in lifts onto high rise buildings of prefab and modular units. It also has a machinery moving division, lifting and shifting industrial and mechanical equipment, as well as carrying out […]

17/07/2023 - 15:21 pm

Caldwell spreader beam for Vita Load Navigator

The Caldwell Group Inc is manufacturing the spreader beam component of Vita Inclinata Technologies Inc.’s load navigator system. The propulsion (fan) driven product is a remotely operated, suspended load system that allows crane operation crews to precisely (to one degree) control and orient loads without guylines or being in the critical path of the load. […]

15/03/2023 - 15:03 pm

Spreader beams lift fire truck in Tokyo

Japanese-based lifting gear company, Nakamura Industry Co. Ltd. and their customer have successfully lifted a 21t fire truck using Modulift spreader beams from a port in Tokyo to a nearby island. Below-the-hook, Nakamura’s customer employed three Modulift spreader beams; one MOD 34 at a span of 6.5m attached using wire rope slings to the crane […]

28/02/2023 - 17:15 pm

Modulift tests giant 2000t spreader beam at 30m

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 […]

22/11/2022 - 12:59 pm

Quick turnaround helps Britlift strengthen client relationship

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 […]

11/11/2022 - 15:07 pm

Testing the load

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 […]

19/10/2022 - 19:22 pm

Britlift provides extra precision for HS2 projects

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 […]

21/09/2022 - 15:02 pm

Moon lander transporter tested and moved to Houston

A customised 2500lb. capacity transport cradle for a lunar lander, manufactured by The Caldwell Group Inc, has arrived in Houston. There, Intuitive Machines will complete the next stage of testing before the lander, Nova-C, will be sent to the Moon. When complete, the lunar lander requires highly customised transportation to NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre (KS) […]

21/04/2022 - 13:38 pm

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