Capital Equipment

Coined the ‘8x4x4’ warranty, MAN offers a four year warranty on rigid tipping bodies from Thompsons Group in its Trucks2Go programme. The warranty will include Edbro CX15 hydraulic tipping gear and is being supported by Thompsons Group’s Service capabilities. Tipper trucks generally work long, hard hours to earn narrow profit margins for operators. The tipping mechanisms are expected to work smoothly and be dependable in all circumstances; regularly lifting enormous loads yet operating safely at all times. 

Fire and gas detection systems are vital to give advanced warning of life safety and facility protection threats in hazardous areas. Oil rigs in the North Sea are located in some of the most inhospitable environmental conditions to be found, adding to the issues faced by operators in ensuring 24/7/365 operation. Verotec has recently supplied a large number of custom 19” fan trays  to Traycar Systems, who will be retrofitting them to legacy Ferranti control cabinets that date back to 1983 when the rig was first commissioned.

A new top lift Laden Container Handler has been launched by Hyster Europe, which is expected to increase productivity in busy ports and terminals, in line with increasing demands. The new Hyster Laden Container Handler stacks up to 6-high and makes first row handling faster in container block stacking applications and when shuttling containers.

It has been announced that Kranbau Köthen has built a crane with a lifting capacity of 500 tons and a special design whereby the weight distribution in two axes can be finely balanced using a special shaft end support. Here, signal and energy transmission take place via energy chains and cables from igus.

It has been announced that sara LBS has supplied all the loading bay equipment for the new £6m Dalcross Distribution Centre at Inverness Airport Business Park (IABP). The centre is part of a sustained process of expansion and renewal for the Co-op’s convenience retail network throughout Northern Scotland.

The Port of Savannah handled more total containerised cargo and more intermodal rail volume, with greater connectivity and velocity, than any March on record, the Georgia Ports Authority have reported. While the port handled more than 410,000 twenty-foot equivalent container units last month, an increase of 15.5%, rail volumes spiked by 26% for a total of 82,135 TEUs. 

A crane may not use its brakes often, but when the need arises, they must be able to operate with the complete reliability. It’s a quality that Stromag, a brand of Altra Industrial Motion, designs into its turnkey crane braking packages. As a result, Stromag braking systems are the solution of choice for several crane OEMs around the world.

A zero-emission reachstacker featuring a hydrogen fuel cell is being developed by Hyster Europe for the Port of Valencia, as part of the European Horizon 2020 programme and H2Ports project. The port will be the first in Europe to incorporate hydrogen energy in its operations.

The new £24 million Advanced Manufacturing Building at the University of Nottingham has been equipped with overhead lifting equipment from Street Crane, the UK's largest overhead crane manufacturer. The overhead crane, designed, manufactured and installed by Street Crane, is actively being used to lift and re-position heavyweight research equipment and apparatus, being developed and tested at the new 9,000sq. metre building.

  The biogas plant in Hammel near Aarhus can now consider its latest tank as the biggest glycerin tank in Denmark. It contains 4.500m³ glycerin in a fully insulated digester made from long-lasting stainless steel.