The latest tower crane technology enhances safety on site and improves lifting capabilities on different projects. Niamh Marriott reports. Manufacturers are meeting market needs by recognising what ...

The LR330 luffing-jib tower crane incorporates the company’s new equilateral-triangle jib design. According to Raimondi, the new crane is “structurally optimized,” having an overall design that allows ...

Scholpp Kran & Transport christened the 81 metre luffing jib on its 450 tonne Tadano all terrain crane with a lift to place a cooler atop a 100 metre tower on a job in Germany. In addition to the ...

FCC Recycling has implemented a new lifting system at its Greatmoor energy-from-waste facility in Buckinghamshire, England, ...

Manitowoc has launched the MR 229, the first of a new generation of Potain luffing jib tower cranes. The MR 229 is the first Potain luffing jib crane to feature Manitowoc’s Crane Control System (CCS), ...

Some tower crane users have not been releasing the slew brake and/or placing the jib at the correct out of service radius, according to the agency. After three luffing jib tower cranes collapsed ...

It sounds like a classic "man bites dog" story: Industry representatives persuade a somewhat reluctant OSHA to update a regulation. But that appears to be precisely what happened in July, when OSHA ...