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First electrically-operated Liebherr port handling machine now in operation in DaFeng Port
Liebherr has handed over it’s LH 150 ET Gantry Port Litronic electronically-operated port handling machine with gantry undercarriage to DaFeng Port, China. The LH 150 ET Gantry Port Litronic is the world’s largest, electrically-operated Liebherr port handling machine with gantry undercarriage. The entire port handling machine has been supplied by Liebherr: all components were developed, […]
Corvus Energy to supply batteries for new fuel-efficient hybrid port cranes
Corvus Energy is very pleased to announce that we have been selected by CCCC Shanghai Equipment Engineering (CCCCSEE) and ZPMC to supply Energy Storage Systems (ESS) for 25 new battery-hybrid Rubber Tyre Gantry (RTG) cranes. The battery-hybrid RTG cranes will be deployed by the South Carolina Port Authority (SCPA), where they are expected to reduce […]
Falcon’s Chinese business partner
Falcon Lifts has enhanced its business relationship with the company Shanghai Yacontee. The Chinese company, situated in Shanghai, had a successful week at the recent Apex Asia show in Shanghai. Falcon Lifts was represented at Apex Asia by Yacontee with the new Falcon Spider FS330Z Vario. “It was an amazing show,” said sales director Brian […]
All Haulotte Shanghai staff members pass IPAF training
Last month, Haulotte Shanghai was recognized by the International Powered Access Federation as the first company in China with the entire staff completing the IPAF training. Now, all employees, including sales people, administrative staff and technicians, know how to safely use mobile elevating work platforms. Safety is a priority for Haulotte, which aims at offering […]
First days of Skyjack’s Shitbox Rally
LHA is proud to be a sponsor of Skyjack’s entry in the biannual Shitbox Rally raising money for Cancer charities. Team 19ft High Club is be taking place in the current event driving its “Shitbox” 3614km between Melbourne and Townsville. The Shitbox Rally is not a race, rather a challenge to drive cars worth just […]
Konecranes wins Australian Safety Award
Australian cranes and lifting technology and service leader Konecranes has won the ‘Best Practice in Safety’ award at the 2019 Bulk Handling Awards for its advanced planned maintenance technology, MAINMAN. Konecranes’ MAINMAN technology is used in major infrastructure, industrial, logistics and materials handling projects where equipment must be cost-efficiently maintained in peak condition to optimise […]
Adaptalift responding to market needs with Hyster-Yale
Adaptalift Group is fully backing the new Hyster UT Series and Yale UX Series, which fill a gap in the market for high quality, low usage forklifts, backed by reliable service Australian materials handling leader Adaptalift Group is backing the new Hyster UT and Yale UX Series lift trucks to satisfy a strong need in […]
Battery development benefits from Dinolift’s 40 celebration
To mark a 40 year partnership milestone between Dinolift and its Finnish dealer Rotator Oy, Dinolift has made a donation to the University of Turku for the development of future battery technology. In the late 1970s the market for drainage machines was declining and Dinolift – in those days named Kurpan Konepaja – was starting […]
The Chinese brand impacting NZ’s EWP market
EWP specialist Elevated Access NZ Ltd has signed a new exclusive agreement to distribute Sinoboom products in New Zealand. Elevated Access NZ initially stocked Sinoboom scissor lifts in 2014, but it had proved difficult to get substantial numbers of the machines into New Zealand. However Terry Tibbitts, national sales manager for Elevated Access says, “Customer […]
Terex AWP Changzhou ramps up production
By the beginning of October Terex Aerial Work Platform’s (AWP) Chinese plant in Changzhou will produce its 1000th Genie GS-1330 scissor lift. The machine was introduced globally in early 2019 and demonstrates the success of the Changzhou plant and its ability to ramp up to meet the global demand for this product. The Genie GS-1330 […]