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Felbermayr transported a new 221 tonne transformer on a 90 km journey in Austria. It was the first time an SPMT had been used on public roads in the country. In April 2008, the old transformer from the Styrian Hessenberg substation was decommissioned and preparations for installing the new transformer got underway

Andreas Schwer has been appointed senior vice president of global engineering and innovation at Manitowoc Cranes

Cargotec will stop production at its Salo facility in Finland and reduce its wider workforce as part of a consolidation scheme. Some 270 jobs will be cut by reducing permanent and external contracts and not replacing retiring or resigning employees

Rigging and transport company Transpico used a pair of Ormig pick and carry cranes to manoeuvre beer bottle packing machines into the first floor of the Haacht brewery in Belgium

James Equipment has sold its 100th Tadano GT-550EX truck crane since becoming Australian distributor for the manufacturer in

"Tower cranes for the 21st Century," is how GG Crane Group promotes its range of long jib tower cranes with propeller-driven slewing mechanism. Alex Dahm talked to Patrick Gillis, GG Crane Group president and managing director, about his unconventional design

Hitachi Sumitomo in Japan has unveiled its model 6000SLX range-topping lattice boom crawler crane. Rated capacity is 500 tonnes

The public comment period for the crane and derricks proposed rule has been extended 45 days

Two Grove GTK1100 cranes worked in tandem to erect a new chimney for a coke production facility in the SaarLorLux region of southwest Germany. The plant is owned by Dillinger Hütte, one of the leading European producers of heavy plate steel sheets, which are generally used for the construction of heavy machinery and shipbuilding

A worsening US economy has caused deep cuts in the nation’s construction workforce, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported

Jumbo's new J-1800-class heavy lift vessel, Jumbo Jubilee, has been launched. The event took place at the Damen shipyard in Galatz, Romania, in November. The ship was named in honour of the company's 40th anniversary year and the 60th anniversary of its agent Kahn Scheepvaart

Although the well-documented credit squeeze began in 2007, crane manufacturers were seeing little sign of a slowdown in business with record sales across the board during most of 2008. By the beginning of the fourth quarter, however, there were real signs that 2009 could be a tough year. Euan Youdale reports

Axel Leijonhufvud has been appointed senior vice president, product supply, at Cargotec. He is now a member of the executive board and reports to Mikael Mäkinen, president and CEO

The 1,600 tonne capacity Terex Demag CC 9800 crawler crane is being launched this month (December) at the company's Zweibrücken factory in Germany

A new tower-type heavy lifting system from Hydrospex makes its debut early in 2009. A typical application will be erecting large vessels on replacement projects in refineries. Alex Dahm talked to Tjerko Jurgens, Hydrospex managing director, at the company's headquarters in the Netherlands

Duty-cycle crawler crane helps with the largest public works ever undertaken in Portland, Oregon, US.

Npower Renewables has been given the go-ahead for a 750 MW wind farm off the coast of North Wales in the UK. According to the UK government's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), the Gwynt y Môr wind farm will be the second largest offshore wind farm in the world.

Dredging giant Boskalis Westminster has abandoned its hostile takeover bid for towage, salvage and heavy transport company Smit International.