- Fri June 03, 2016
Terex AC 100/4L Crane Supports the Revolution
With revolution-themed brews like Anti-Hero IPA, Coup D'ETAT and Double Fist, Chicago's own Revolution Brewing is riding the wave of microbrew popularity resurgence. Illinois' largest and fastest growing craft brewery, crafting more than 50,000 barrels in 2014, Revolution Brewery has set its sights on significant capacity expansion at its N....
- Tue May 31, 2016
Empire Crane's Chet Zerrillo Passes Away After Brief Illness
Chester “Chet” Zerrillo Jr., 71, of Liverpool, N.Y., passed away on May 16 after a brief illness. Mr. Zerrillo was most recently the New England sales representative at Empire Crane. Mr. Zerrillo started working for Empire Crane in 2004, travelling the New England territory....
- Tue May 31, 2016
Zoomlion Drops Bid for Terex
HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese heavy equipment maker Zoomlion says it's abandoning its takeover bid for U.S. crane maker Terex because it failed to reach a deal after months of talks. Zoomlion, which made its unsolicited offer in late January, said in a filing Friday to the Hong Kong stock exchange that "no agreement can be made on the crucial terms" so it decided to "terminate" its offer....
- Tue May 24, 2016
Contractors Services Squeezes the Terex AC 100/4L Crane Into Brewery for Expansion
With revolution-themed brews like Anti-Hero IPA, Coup D'ETAT and Double Fist, Chicago's own Revolution Brewing is riding the wave of microbrew popularity resurgence. Illinois' largest and fastest growing craft brewery, crafting over 50,000 barrels in 2014, Revolution Brewery has set its sights on significant capacity expansion at its N Kedzie Avenue facility, eventually boosting plant capacity to 300,000 barrels per year....
- Sun May 22, 2016
Apollo Global Management to Acquire AmQuip Crane Rental and Maxim Crane Works
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that two Pennsylvania firms that have supplied the recent construction boom with rental cranes are consolidating operations, in a match made on Wall Street. Apollo Global Management LLC, the giant New York private-investment group headed by Sixers co-owner Josh Harris, says a group of its funds have agreed to buy AmQuip Crane Rental, Trevose, lately controlled by Clearlake Capital Group LP, and Pittsburgh-based Maxim Crane Works, a larger rival owned by affiliates of Tom Gores' Platinum Equity group....
- Wed May 18, 2016
SC&RA Announces 16 Awards for Crane Operator Safety
The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) announced 16 Crane Operator Safety Awards during its 2016 Annual Conference, April 26 to 30, at the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek, Orlando, Fla. This award is presented to certified crane operators who exhibit exemplary work achievements while accumulating 10,000 consecutive man-hours and recording zero accidents and incidents....
- Tue May 17, 2016
Konecranes Buys Terex Port/Material Handling
Konecranes is to acquire the Demag overhead and Gottwald port crane division of Terex as the two agree to end all merger talks. Terex has agreed to sell its industrial and port crane services business – largely the Demag overhead crane and Gottwald port cranes business - to Finland's Konecranes....
- Fri May 06, 2016
Maeda Mini-Crane Goes to Work Where Tower Crane Can't Reach
A Maeda MC285 was utilized by a glass and curtain wall company to hoist and install unitized glass curtain wall panels on the exterior of AMEGY Bank's new Houston headquarters. The contractor was able to use conventional equipment to install unitized curtain glass panels in most areas of the 25 story building and parking garage structure, however, panels on the facade of the parking garage structure were larger and heavier than could be handled safely with their smaller capacity equipment....
- Fri May 06, 2016
Terex AC 700 Terrain Crane Helps Erect Tower Crane in Kornwestheim
A compact design and powerful performance characteristics — this is the combination that makes the AC all terrain crane series by Terex the best choice when it comes to work sites with limited space....
- Fri May 06, 2016
Manitowoc Introduces New Grove GMK4100L-1 All-Terrain Taxi Crane
Manitowoc has introduced a new Grove all-terrain crane for the global market. As with other recent Grove launches, the crane offers unique innovations and class-leading capabilities in the taxi (road travelling) category, according to the company....
