Machine shops, foundries, and other plants routinely move loads weighing from several to 600 tons on overhead cranes such as the ER-2000 from Whiting Corp., Monee, Ill.

A crane operator was electrocuted and two co-workers died trying to save him Thursday after the crane struck an overhead power line at a concrete plant in a suburb of Philadelphia.

The order is for eight cranes: four 35/10-ton 22,5-metre-span machines, and a further four with capacities of 20 tons and spans of 13,5 metres, all of them designed in double-girder overhead ...

For the plant, the production goal was seven-minute cycles per crane to move its 1- to 20-ton metal coils. Safety systems. With wireless data moving so fast, this plant uses a safety PLC from Siemens ...

The circular overhead crane in the first unit of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey has been put into operation. The first components of the fuel reloading system have also been delivered, TVEL ...

It has 100 people at its engineering centre, which designs cranes for project-specific applications. The company makes large electrical overhead travelling cranes from 250 kg to over 1,000 tonnes ...

Lifting company Konecranes is responsible for the provision and erection of the main turbine hall cranes at State-owned electricity utility Eskom’s critically important Medupi, Kusile and Ingula ...

Wieland, a supplier of copper and copper alloys, has hired Graycor and Helmkamp Construction as the design-build contractor on a $500-million expansion of its East Alton, Ill., manufacturing facility.

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