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The crane industry is an essential part of the construction, manufacturing, and transportation sectors. Cranes are used to lift and move heavy materials, equipment, and machinery from one location to another, making them crucial in building tall structures, assembling large objects, and transporting goods across long distances. The industry includes various types of cranes, such as tower cranes, mobile cranes, overhead cranes, and gantry cranes, each designed for specific purposes. The industry is highly regulated, with strict safety guidelines and certification requirements to ensure the safe operation of cranes and the protection of workers and the public.
Electrocutions resulting from contact between a crane and overhead power lines is still a leading cause of death on job sites. The key to safety around power lines is awareness, and an experienced operator knows to assume all lines are energized until he's confirmed otherwise.....
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Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Mon March 15, 2021
Versatile Telecrawlers Tackle Jobs in Many Construction Settings
The utility market has long known teleboom crawler cranes are workhorses in the field. They can easily navigate sketchy terrain, hike steep slopes and coast over soft ground. But their abilities to pick and carry a full load chart, work on out-of-level conditions and hold various attachments are drawing the interest of contractors in many construction sectors....

Tadano - Mon March 15, 2021
Tadano Introduces GR-1300XL-4 Rough Terrain Crane
The Tadano Group announced the launch of the GR-1300XL-4 rough terrain crane for the North American market. Tadano's rough terrain cranes are known throughout the industry for their reliable performance, high maneuverability and safety....

Manitowoc - Thu March 04, 2021
Lift-All Crane Service's New Grove Truck Cranes Navigate Roads With Ease
Lift-All Crane Service's distinctive baby blue cranes have been a common sight on the highways and job sites of eastern Nebraska and western Iowa ever since the company was founded in 1977. This long-time Grove customer has recently acquired another two truck cranes from nearby dealer Aspen Equipment to fill a couple of gaps in its fleet: namely, a TMS9000-2 at the end of 2018 and a TMS500-2 in the spring of 2020....

Select Crane Sales - Wed March 03, 2021
Select Crane Sales Delivers Liebherr LTM 1130-5.1
Select Crane Sales recently delivered a 2015 Liebherr LTM 1130-5.1 to American Crane in New Hampshire. The LTM 1130-5.1 offers a compact size, 160 ton capacity, 197 ft. main boom and 35 to 62 ft. jib....

New York Yimby - Tue March 02, 2021
Cranes Dominate Massive Assembly in NYC's Midtown East
The steel superstructure for JP Morgan Chase‘s new 1,425-ft. supertall headquarters continues to rise on the western half of 270 Park Avenue's full-block parcel in Manhattan, N.Y. At the same time, work continues to progress on the demolition of the company's mid-century 707-ft.-tall, 52-story former home on the opposite end of the Midtown East lot, formerly referred as the Union Carbide Building....

Empire Crane Company - Tue March 02, 2021
Demag AC 300-6 Saves Time, Money for Greiner Industries Inc.
Greiner Industries Inc. recently took delivery of its new Demag AC 300-6 from Empire Crane Company. Greiner wanted to add a 350-ton unit to its fleet because of the long main booms this class is equipped with....

ALL Family of Companies - Mon March 01, 2021
ALL Crane Adding Liebherr LR 1800-1.0
The ALL Family of Companies is beefing up its crawler crane offering in a big way with the purchase of a new Liebherr LR 1800-1.0. The high-tech heavyweight has an 880-ton capacity, 663 ft. of hoist height and a maximum radius of 498 ft....

Manitowoc - Mon February 22, 2021
Trio of Grove All-Terrain Cranes Delivered to German Company Neeb
The employees of German company Neeb received three new Grove all-terrain cranes during a handover at the Manitowoc factory in Wilhelmshaven in November 2020. The family business from Wuppertal chose a GMK3060L, GMK4100L-1 and GMK6300L-1 to expand its company fleet....

Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu February 18, 2021
Amid Challenges, N.C Freeway Interchange Remains on Schedule
It is now been almost nine years since contractors first began to transform the interchange at I-40 and I-77 in Statesville, N.C., 40 mi. north of Charlotte. With only an expected year-and-a-half left before the two-phased freeway project is finished, crews from two different construction companies have made quite a few upgrades to each interstate as well as several streets and roads feeding to them and the interchange....

ALL Crane - Tue February 16, 2021
ALL Crane Invests in 21-Unit Liebherr Package
ALL is reinvesting heavily in its mobile all-terrain fleet, announcing a massive haul of 21 new cranes from Liebherr that will be delivered throughout 2021. The package includes: four each of LTM 1120-4.1, LTM 1130-5.1 and LTM 1230-5.1; three each of LTM 1160-5.2 and LTM 1450-8.1; and one each of LTM 1110-5.1, LTM 1150-5.3 and LTM 1650-8.1....
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