Under the Hook

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Allelys, one of the largest transport and heavy lift companies in the UK, used a Modulift MOD 250 spreader beam below-the-hook of a LG1550 crane, to lift a Yankee paper dryer in Barrow-in-Furness. These huge pressure vessels remove excess moisture during the paper making process and are the beating heart of machines used to make tissue paper. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]