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Manitowoc Company Acquires Grove Worldwide, Expanding Crane Segment →

The Manitowoc Company Inc., one of the leading worldwide manufacturers of high-capacity, lattice-boom crawler cranes and tower cranes, has announced that it has executed a definitive agreement to acquire Grove Worldwide is one of the leading manufacturers of mobile hydraulic cranes and truck-mounted cranes. The acquisition, valued at approximately $270 million, will be funded by a combination of cash and approximately 2 million shares of Manitowoc common stock based on current market prices. “Grove enhances our market-leading positions, represents a strong growth opportunity for our crane segment and fills a product void by adding mobile cranes to our product offerings. Click for more...

Modern Equipment Provides Annual Crane Inspections →

Cranes are versatile and essential pieces of equipment used in construction, as well as numerous other industries. A crane inspection program can help reduce crane accidents and improve operation as well as educate owners/operators on training and requirements. Construction Equipment Guide (CEG ) recently spoke with Jeff Holt and Allen Rex of Modern Equipment about its AMI Crane Inspection Program. Click for more...

Ringhaver Equipment Crane Division Appoints Davis New Branch Manager →

Ringhaver Equipment Co. Vice President and General Manager Dallas Johnson has announced the appointment of Mike Davis to the position of branch manager of Southeastern Crane’s Charlotte, NC, facility. In addition to extensive crane sales experience, Davis brings the advantage of familiarity with the southeast sales territory. Before joining Southeastern Crane, Davis spent four years with Carter Machinery as a sales representative in Virginia’s Tidewater area. Click for more...

Grove TMS875C Boosts Bridge Beams in Colombian Project →

Transportes Montejo LTDA, headquartered in Tocancipa-Cundinamarca-Colombia, specializes in transport, lifting and erection of heavy and oversize loads. The company also has facilities in Venezuela providing crane rental and transport services. With approximately 70 employees, the company operates one of the largest fleets in Colombia and Venezuela. A recent job in Fonseca-Guajira-Colombia used a Grove TMS875C along with another crane to lift and position 70-ton (63 t) bridge beams. Click for more...

Grove Spans Potomac With $2B Woodrow Wilson Bridge Job →

Grove RT650E rough-terrain cranes are at work on the $2-billion Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge reconstruction project. The bridge carries busy Interstates 495 and 95 across the Potomac River from Maryland to Virginia just outside Washington, D.C. The $125.4-million foundation contract is a joint venture between Tidewater Skanska, Kiewitt and Clark. The substructure consists of 24-in. (61 cm) concrete piles and 48- to 72-in. Click for more...

Crews Preserve History, Erect $11M Bridge in Danville, PA →

Three bridges linking the boroughs of Danville and Riverside, PA, have shared a common fate over the course of the past 150 years or so — that of falling prey to the elements in most spectacular fashions. Danville’s first wooden bridge was built in 1829 but destroyed by flooding 23 years later. A similar disaster carried off its second bridge in 1875, although in the latter case it was another bridge being swept downriver that carried it away. Click for more...

Motor City’s Ford Field Roof Trusses Make History →

Engineering feats on Ford Field, the new home for the Detroit Lion’s starting with the 2002 football season, are making history in the construction world. Early in December, construction workers lifted into place the project’s second massive roof truss that spanned together nearly 80 percent of the stadium’s steel roof. The approximately 3,000-ton (2,722 t) portion of the roof was hoisted 100 ft. Click for more...

Grove Crane North American Distributors Receive Excellence and Service Awards →

Grove Crane recognized five North American distributors for their overall performance in 2001: --American State Equipment Co. Inc., Milwaukee, WI --Hayden-Murphy Equipment Company, Minneapolis, MN --Honnen Equipment Company, Commerce City, CO --J. W. Burress Inc., Roanoke, VA --Shawmut Equipment Co., Manchester, CT The distributors were recognized for their outstanding performance during the recent Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) convention in Anaheim, CA. Click for more...

CONMACO-RECTOR’s Cranes Boost D/FW Airport Project →

Amidst heightened security, contractors are working on a massive project to move people safely and efficiently at one of the world’s busiest airports. At the D/FW International Airport in Irving, TX, the Automated People Mover Guideway (APM) is being described as a “state of the art” system for transporting passengers between terminals. The new APM is part of DFW’s $2.6-billion capital development program. Hensel Phelps Construction Co., a Colorado firm with a Dallas office, is construction manager for the APM project. Click for more...

Enduring Crane Companies Celebrate Delivery of New Manitowoc 777 Unit →

Three companies with histories reaching back 75 years recently came together in Washington, D.C., when L.B. Smith Inc./Equipco delivered a new 777 Manitowoc lattice boom truck crane to Crane Service Company Inc. The crane is currently assisting Crane Service Company on various jobs for the federal government. Company Histories Manitowoc Manitowoc can trace its roots back to 1925. The company’s first effort was a gas-powered Moore Speedcrane Model 100 with a 15-ton (13.6 t) capacity and a crawler base. Click for more...

Grove GMK5100 Meets Needs of Siberian Fuel Industry →

It might get very cold in the United States, but in Surgut, one of the remotest parts of Siberia, temperatures can drop to minus 40F (minus 4.4C) in the winter although summer highs are more moderate, about 86-degrees F (30 C). Situated 1,550 mi. (2,500 km) from Moscow, Surgut is home to one of the richest oil and gas fields in the world producing more than 46 million tons (40 million t) of oil per year. Click for more...

Ringhaver Equipment Crane Division Appoints New Branch Manager →

Ringhaver Equipment Co. Vice President and General Manager Dallas Johnson has announced the appointment of Mike Davis to the position of branch manager of Southeastern Crane’s Charlotte, NC, facility. In addition to extensive crane sales experience, Davis brings the advantage of familiarity with the southeast sales territory. Before joining Southeastern Crane, Davis spent four years with Carter Machinery as a sales representative in Virginia’s Tidewater area. Click for more...

Wallace, DOT Replace Two U.S. 90 Bridges in Alabama →

Replacing bridges on a hilly, congested area in Spanish Fort, AL, is not a daunting task to the prime contractors, Wallace Construction Company Inc. of Columbia, MS. That’s the firm that is building the new U.S. 90 bridges that give motorists access to the Battleship Parkway which crosses Mobile Bay into the city. These bridges, each two-lanes wide and 186 ft. (57 m) long, will replace the obsolete structures that did not meet present standards for height. Click for more...

Kirby-Smith Takes Over Fabick Tractor’s Grove Crane Sector →

After having represented its line of products for the past 39 years, The Fabick Companies elected to transfer all Grove crane and crane related operations to the St. Louis branch facility of Oklahoma City, OK-based Kirby-Smith Machinery Inc. Kirby-Smith took over responsibility for all sales, parts and service for Grove truck cranes, rough terrain cranes and all-terrain cranes for Eastern Missouri and portions of Central and Southern Illinois, effective November 28, 2001. Click for more...

Crane Danger Evacuates NJ Neighborhood →

More than 100 people were evacuated from homes and businesses near the Jersey City, NJ, waterfront Jan. 16 when it appeared that a construction crane was in danger of falling. Attached to the side of a building in which more than half of 29 floors have been completed, the crane’s boom apparently overextended and began to tilt due to an electrical malfunction. Officials said the unit’s operator felt a shift and was warned by computer that the crane was tipping. Authorities shut down three blocks of the waterfront area, which is across the Hudson River from New York City. Click for more...

United Nations Puts Its Grove AT422T Cranes to Global Use AT422T Cranes to Global Use →

The United Nations has purchased a number of Grove AT422T all-terrain cranes and has them in use in many different locations working on a wide range of projects. Machines are presently at work in the Congo, Italy and Lebanon. Additionally, a unit is scheduled for delivery to East Timor in early 2002. The AT422T is equipped with a 70-ft. (21.4 m) full-power, three-section main boom and has a lifting capacity of 22 tons (20 t). Click for more...

Iowa Mold Tooling Co. Inc. Acquires Stedt Hydraulic Crane Corporation →

Iowa Mold Tooling Co. Inc. (IMT) has announced that it has purchased the assets of Stedt Hydraulic Crane Corporation (Stetco) of Westborough, MA. Stetco is a 50-year-old firm that has developed a line of catch basin cleaning products marketed under the "Stetco" registered trade name. By the 1970s, the Stetco brand was sold successfully throughout the northeastern United States. At that time, the company also began building its distribution business to include a full line of complementary hydraulic truck equipment. "The Stetco product line is well-regarded and ruggedly built. Click for more...

Gail Guthrie Takes on Sales, Marketing at All Crane Rental →

Gail Guthrie has recently joined All Crane Rental of Georgia as the marketing and sales coordinator. In this position, she will handle all advertising, sales, trade/convention shows and promotional needs for the Atlanta offices. She also will be working with the city, county and state municipalities to promote All Crane’s new line of Elliot boom trucks and Cormack & Fossy material handling trucks. Guthrie started her career in the equipment industry in 1984 with a small international company, ICM, in Atlanta. Click for more...

Ransome Furnishes Turnkey Package for Fast-Track Shopping Center Job in DE →

In just six months, McWhorter and Co. Inc., Anniston, AL, is transforming 28 acres (11.3 ha) in Middletown, DE, from a cornfield into a shopping center called Middletown Commons. General contractor McWhorter and its subcontractors, who operate nationwide, specialize in fast-track construction of small shopping centers such as Middletown Commons. However, except for the site grading and utility contractor, Corrado American Inc. Click for more...

Falling Crane Kills 5, Injures 91 in Chinese School →

A huge construction crane toppled onto a school building in western China, killing five people and injuring more than 90 students as it sliced through the structure, officials and state media said. "Four students aged under 12 and the operator of the crane were killed," said a city official of Tianshui city in the western province of Gansu. Nineteen students from the Tianshui school remained in hospital, including three in critical condition, he added. According to the Lanzhou Morning News, some 91 students were injured in the accident, which occurred Monday while children were attending their afternoon lessons. The crane was in use at a nearby construction site when it toppled over onto the school building and "tore through the three-storey building from roof to bottom," the newspaper said. The cause of the accident is still under investigation, but the official said a mechanical fault in the crane might be to blame. Click for more...

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