US based United Rentals has extended its partnership with Serious labs with the opening of a new Virtual Reality and digital training centre, that offers a blended learning model for aerial work platform and crane operator certification courses. The new model made its debut on Wednesday when United Rentals opened its first United Academy trainin..

Liebherr has collaborated with Austrian rope manufacturer Teufelberger to develop a high tensile fibre rope.

During development, over 100 fibre rope prototypes measuring around 70,000 metres were produced. The prototypes went through extensive testing on test benches and in field tests conducted in five different countries. The tests ..

French crane rental company Somatra has taken delivery of a 220 tonne Demag AC 220-5 All Terrain crane.

The five axle AC 220-5 features an eight section 78 metre main boom, plus an 11.4 to 21 metre bi-fold swingaway extension for a 99 metre maximum tip height

Dubai based contractor and equipment distributor Al Naboodah Group Enterprises has taken delivery of 120 tonne Sennebogen 6113 E telescopic crawler crane, to carry out work pressing 14 km of water, sewage pipes and other supply pipes into the ground, via a trenchless micro tunnelling process in the Khawaneej area of Dubai, to the east of the int..

Swedish on-road load handling equipment provider Hiab will launch its new building material crane models at the forthcoming IAA exhibition, which will take place in Hannover, Germany, from 20 to 27 September.

The three new models comprise the L-HiPro 145, L-HiPro 195 and L-HiPro 235, which have capacities between 13 and 20 tonnes.