Liebherr is investing $45 million in the expansion of its Newport News facility in Virginia, USA.

The company opened the greenfield manufacturing and operational facility in 1970, to manufacture hydraulic excavators for the local market and distribute the company’s machine tools and tower cranes. The expansion will include the cons..

Heavy lift and transportation specialist Mammoet has successfully completed the safe delivery of two heavy and oversized columns to the Gazprom Neft Moscow Refinery, Moscow, Russia, for the construction of a new refining unit.

The two columns were fabricated in different parts of Russia. Each column was more than 50 metres long and weigh..

Jekko has started shipping the second generation version of its six tonne SPK60.2 mini crawler crane.

The first units have already shipped to customers in Hong Kong, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the UK and the United States. The SPK60 was launched two years ago at Bauma.

French crane contractor Mediaco has been using its recently purchased Liebherr LG 1750 lattice boom crane for work on the ‘Metropole du Grand Paris’ infrastructure modernisation project. According to Liebherr, the infrastructure project includes plans for 200 km of underground railway with 68 new stations.

ALE has ended its Canadian joint venture with Roll-Lift and established its own Canadian operation. 

The company set up the joint venture with Roll-Lift Canada in 2012, and has operated as ALE Roll-Lift Canada since then.