American Crane & Equipment Corporation Completes Installation of Underhung Crane System for Boeing 787 Dreamliner Facility in South Carolina

Douglassville, PA - American Crane & Equipment Corporation, a manufacturer of overhead electric cranes and hoists, has completed installation of a custom Underhung Crane System built for the new Boeing Manufacturing facility in Charleston, South Carolina. American Crane is located in Douglassville, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. American Crane is a custom crane supplier specializing in...

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Virtual Touring at NASA

Over the past 40 years, American Crane has been involved with the innovative work of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Recently, despite budget cuts, NASA has been in the news with its groundbreaking Mars rover, Curiosity. This uptick in interest for space travel and exploration has renewed the public's fascination with everything NASA. On top of all of this media...

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Demag Cranes Installs More Than 25 Overhead Cranes, up to 450 Ton Capacity for Siemens Energy in Charlotte, North Carolina

Demag Cranes Installs More Than 25 Overhead Cranes, up to 450 Ton Capacity for Siemens Energy in Charlotte, North Carolina

-· Siemens selected Demag for product reliability and breadth of offering Siemens Energy selected Demag Cranes as the overhead crane supplier for its Charlotte manufacturing operation expansion. Siemens expanded its manufacturing operation with the completion of a 450,000-square-foot natural Gas Turbine production plant adjacent to its existing Steam Turbine-Generator plant. Charlotte is the...

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ALL Erection & Crane Rental Corp. Acquires 17 New Manitowoc and Grove Cranes in Two Blockbuster Packages

ALL Erection & Crane Rental Corp. Acquires 17 New Manitowoc and Grove Cranes in Two Blockbuster Packages

New cranes will help meet increasing demand for energy sector and infrastructure work ALL Erection & Crane Rental Corp. announces the acquisition of two blockbuster Manitowoc/Grove packages, adding a total of 17 machines to its industry-leading rental fleet: the first in May, including nine (9) units anchored by the mammoth Manitowoc 18000 crawler, and the second in July, eight (8) units...

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Rent a Cantilever Man Basket

Rent a Cantilever Man Basket

Bridgeview, IL - The Cantilever Man Basket is now available for rent at Lifting Gear Hire Corporation (LGH). The Cantilever Man Basket offers a wide range of maneuverability. They are ideal for locations that have obstructed access from a vertical angle including, bridges, dams, piers and other structures over water. The man baskets also offer more access over walkways, gangways and refineries....

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Rubber Tired Gantry Cranes offer hybrid power option.

Rubber Tired Gantry Cranes offer hybrid power option.

With Hybrid Diesel/Electric Power Pack, Rubber Tired Gantry Cranes operate with electrical power drawn from energy store whenever possible, and takes energy generated during braking and converts it into electricity to recharge batteries. Diesel Fuel Saver provides power-on-demand, matching rpm of RTG engine to work machine is doing. Cable Reel and Busbar options convert RTG to fully electric...

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Progress in the Wind

Progress in the Wind

Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental Helps Raise Iowa's Largest Wind Farm-and Energy Profile Want to see which way the renewable energy wind is blowing? Check with Iowa. No longer a novel sight, wind farms in Iowa are becoming as commonplace as the windy farmland they are built on. And Mortenson Construction, partnered with Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental, brings the power to raise many of them. As of June...

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Aluminum Gantry Lift offers 4,400 lb capacity.

Aluminum Gantry Lift offers 4,400 lb capacity.

Intended for mechanical contractors, Model GH2T is available with cross beams in 8, 10, 12, and 15 ft sizes as well as 3, 4, and 5 m sizes. Two A-frames lock in folded position using plunger pins and feature removable quick action locking pin. With adjustable lifting handle, height adjustments can be made in 6 in. increments. Minimum and maximum heights from ground to lifting eye are 83 and 113...

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Earthquake-Proof Seismic Crane

Earthquake-Proof Seismic Crane

TELESCOPIC MAST ARTICULATING CRANE REPLACES NUCLEAR RODS Mentor, Ohio - Air Technical Industries announces the manufacturing of the unique telescopic mast articulating crane, constructed mostly from aluminum. The crane will be used by a California Nuclear Power Plant for replacing the fuel rods in Combustion Engineering reactors rated at 1100 Mwe supplying electricity for 1.4 million homes. The...

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JEC Europe News for MAG Booth No. V56, Hall 1 Aeronautics Village

MAG to present composites industry firsts at JEC At JEC Europe, the MAG exhibit will feature first-in-composites technology, including the GEMINI(TM) dockable head system that switches from automated fiber placement to automated tape laying in minutes, and the first automated FPS for wind spar production. MAG will present the latest in composites technology at the JEC Europe Composites Show,...

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