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Manitowoc dealer and crane rental house D&G Hoist and Crane Hire in Australia has taken delivery of its 100th Potain tower crane

Three Alimak SC 45 FC single car hoists will be used for the interior finishing of the 230 m high Huang He Central Tower, the highest building in Dongguan city, China. The 62 floor Huang He Central Tower will comprise a shopping mall from the ground floor to the 9th, offices up to the 34th floor, and a five-star hotel up to the 62nd. The hotel is being planned and designed by Sofitel.

Sometimes the most obvious measures, such as height and speed, get the most attention. Pega Hoists already holds two world records for rack-and-pinion hoists - longest single run, at 425 m; and fastest, non-counterweighted, at 100 m/min at full load of 3.2 t -- as a result of its contract at the Burj Dubai. Next month it will add a third: the world's highest - at 625 m base station - permanent rack-and-pinion lift.

The record breaking activity of a Scando 650 construction hoist was recorded by Alimak's A3 remote monitoring system.

Two SC1000 hoists from Spider recently worked on the Pinnacle Museum Tower Condominium in San Diego, CA.

Two high-speed Alimak Scando 2837 passenger hoists and an Alimak 4000 kg-capacity ‘Mammoth' transport hoist are speeding the construction of the 147 m Strata Tower in London, UK.

A pair of luffing jib tower cranes is vital to the construction of South America's tallest tower. IC reports

New York rental company Atlantic Hoisting & Scaffolding will supply 12 Raxtar construction hoists built in the Netherlands for use on the construction of the 420 m high ‘Freedom Tower’ on the site of Ground Zero in Manhattan.

Three high rise Denver condos create interesting challenges for Spider.

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for seven 36-storey residential towers and twelve villas on a 78000 m2 site at Farrer Road, Singapore.

Rental company Vinamac and building contractor Song Da Corporation have each supplied two Potain tower cranes to work on the Saigon Pearl development in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Scaninter, the Finnish mast climber and hoist manufacturer, saw the first Australian installation of its SC2032 hoist in December 2007.

Throughout the construction of the world's largest observation wheel an Alimak hoist carried engineers to the hub of the wheel where essential cables and wiring were being installed.

The highest building in the world, the Burj Dubai, is currently under construction in the United Arab Emirates. Murray Pollok reports on the complicated arrangement of PEGA construction hoists being used to transport the project's 4000 workers.

A fire at the Shanghai World Financial Center stops work on what will be the world's second-tallest skyscraper.