All Below the Hook Articles
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Self-locking hooks, also known as safety hooks, have changed the lifting industry, but their use has yet to become universal.
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Below-the-hook solutions can be complex. ACT rounds up below-the-hook news and products.
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Matt Kral discusses the nine things you may have forgotten about spreader beams.
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Rigging Designer and Sketch Pad have been added to the A1A Product Suite application.
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Pat Clark discusses all the subtleties of job planning and renting rigging gear.
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The company has appointed one of the largest rental companies in the lifting industry
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The new facility will offer its customers in mainland Europe a next day delivery service
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The UK-based company will be sold to the lifting solutions arm of Axel Johnson International
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The Crosby Group has acquired the Spanish lifting and weighing equipment company to expand its technology solutions portfolio
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UK-based Modulift’s new MOD 1100/2000 tonne spreader beam has been used in Dover for its first lift
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Below the hook lifting devices help ensure safe and reliable load transport, reducing the risk to equipment and workers, especially when moving unusual sizes and shapes or heavy loads
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The partnership will help sell the Lifting Equipment Store (LES) product range to large companies, including Botswana mines
Wind component marring minimised with Crosby vertical and horizontal lifting clamps, the company claims
80 transition pieces lifted by Jumbo from heavy lift vessel in the Taiwan Strait using heavy lift slings from Lankhorst
Wave energy prototype lifted and lowered into water for initial testing using a Modulift lifting frame
Elebia enters the subsea lifting sector with automatic underwater hook
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A new record 2,000 tonne modular spreader beam made by Modulift for customer Safe Lifting Europe
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When it comes to below the hook, some claim customisation is key while others assert that automation is the future. Can these two approaches coexist? Christian Shelton reports
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Crosby’s global footprint to help accelerate adoption of Verton’s load orientation system
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Buoyed by government defence contract wins, Rope and Sling Specialists expands UK operations