Cranes news articles

Excavators are the most stolen category of plant and equipment

Plant and equipment theft in the UK has reached an all-time high according to the 2006 Equipment Theft Report. The National Plant & Equipment Register (TER) reveals that equipment theft was up last year by 20% in number to 4,324 recorded thefts and by 13% in value to £43M, the highest it has ever been. The report reveals that: * Last year alone £43M worth of stolen plant and equipment was registered with TER * Since 2000, more t... [more]

Liebherr to supply tower cranes for the construction of South America's highest building

Liebherr has been awarded an order to supply 13 tower cranes in the size categories between 90 and 200 mt for the building of the Costanera Center. The Costanera Center comprising four office towers is currently being built in the Chilean capital Santiago. On completion, one of the towers will rise to a height of 300 m making it the highest building in South America and the entire southern hemisphere. Flat-Top cranes of the EC-B series, tr... [more]

Hitachi Sumitomo launches two crawler cranes

Hitachi Sumitomo has announced two new crawler cranes for the European market, the new SCX2800-2 (capacity 275 tonne) and the SCX800 HD-2 (capacity 80 tonne) heavy duty model. The SCX2800-2 succeeds the SCX2500 and is designed for easy self assembly and transport - maximum component weight is 45 tonnes and maximum width is 3 mtrs. The 80 tonner can be used for clamshell applications and has a 196 kN (20 tonne) line pull winch. Changes for E... [more]

Terex Announces Two-For-One Stock Split

Terex Corporation has announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a two-for-one split of the Company's common stock. Record holders of Terex's common stock at the close of business on June 15, 2006, will receive one additional share of common stock for every share of Terex common stock they own as of that date. The Company anticipates that the additional shares resulting from the split will be issued on or about July 14, 2006. The tw... [more]

United Arab Emirates Customer orders 40 Hitachi Sumitomo cranes

Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV has announced it has sold 40 cranes to a customer in the United Arab Emirates. Al Jaber Heavy Lift & Transport LLC has purchased 40 units HITACHI SUMITOMO cranes from Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV. The order consists of the following cranes: * 10 x SCX700 * 3 x SCX900-2 * 14 x SCX1200-2 * 13 x SCX2500-2 Al Jaber Heavy Lift & Transport LLC, with its headquarters located in Abu Dhabi... [more]