As CEO of Sims HD, a spin-off of Sims Crane & Equipment, she and her team are full speed ahead in the realm of heavy haul in the Sunshine State.

Erika Sims is making waves in Florida. As CEO of Sims HD, a spin-off of Sims Crane & Equipment, she and her team are full speed ahead in the realm of heavy haul in the Sunshine State.

The third Changsha International Construction Machinery Exhibition, held from May 12th to 15th, 2023, came to a triumphant close at the Changsha International Exhibition Center and Changsha International Convention Center. With the theme "High-end, Intelligent, and Green - New Generation of Construction Machinery," this exhibition showcased the latest innovations in the construction equipment industry.

Now on its fourth year, Global Lifting Awareness Day (GLAD) is a campaign established by the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) to raise awareness of the importance of safe lifting operations. This year GLAD will take place on July 13 to share information about apprenticeships, technology, sustainability and diversity, and best practices through #GLAD2023.

Stabilising wind turbine components during their installation is a major challenge for assembly crews. Two companies in Europe have pooled their engineering resources and come up with a solution. Dutch crane and engineering specialist Huisman and Spanish wind energy specialist Siemens Gamesa worked together to produce the Travelling Load Stabilising System.

A1A Software, the developer of 3D Lift Plan, has released ‘Rigging Designer’ a new application based tool for creating rigging plans.
The standalone application, available in the A1A Product Suite, provides detailed documentation for pre-lift planning, while also being easy to use on-the-go for planning in the field.

Faced with the threat of a collapsing scrubber unit, a power plant in New Jersey made an emergency call to Barnhart. A thousand miles away, another branch wrestled with how to remove and replace 12 reactor legs at a chemical plant in Florida. 

Throughout history, humans have found different ways to handle heavy loads to construct tall buildings. One key advancement that stands out is the evolution of the lifting crane. Hauling and moving heavy materials and cargo can be laborious and dangerous without this impressively massive tool.

To help prevent collisions on site AMCS Technologies was brought in to manage the interference between crawler cranes and tower cranes on a large and busy jobsite in the USA.

The French safety technology specialist said it is a world first that its DCS 61-S system is now managing interferences between the tower and crawler cranes. The cranes are owned by Maxim Crane Works.

A customer inquired about using synthetic rope on our 80-160 Crossover Crane. Custom Truck One Source has experience with synthetic ropes on our insulated and utility aerial products, but we had not installed synthetic ropes on lifting cranes before. However, recognizing this would be a good option for other customers, we decided to explore it further. 

Decisions by contractors or maintenance crews to use ground protection can be critical to protecting the ground around a job site and making projects more efficient. Without it, damage to the ground can stall future projects with repairs that chew up valuable time and resources. 

When a 120t gas scrubber, about 27m long, arrived at the ENAP Aconcagua Refinery in Chile, two companies wondered how they would handle their portion of the installation process. Their solution? Both called Engineered Rigging’s office in Santiago, Chile, office to develop a method for moving the giant gas scrubber.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The Bay Area storm that toppled 900 trees and branches in just one day in late March is just a memory, but it is still keeping Michael Veneziano very busy.

"A bunch of trees fell from this slope onto the roadway," said Veneziano as he used a hydraulic lift to retrieve three large trunks from Shepherd Canyon Road in the Oakland Hills and load them onto his flatbed truck.

The first parts of the new SK60 6,000t ring crane will soon be delivered to Mammoet’s engineering nerve centre in The Netherlands. In the months ahead, fabrication and production will continue as it is being readied for its very first project, with delivery scheduled in 2024. It becomes the world’s highest capacity land-based crane, and can be fully operated using electric power, allowing clients to execute projects in a sustainable way.

The new fifth generation of Link-Belt’s established 218 series of lattice boom crawler cranes, the 218|V, made its debut at ConExpo 2023.

The 110-ton (99.79 tonne) capacity crane has a new design that Link-Belt Cranes believes will appeal to general contractors, crane rental houses, engineering firms, and owner/operator companies, just as its predecessors have.

a leading tree care company in Fair Oaks, California, has announced adopting drone technology as a cutting-edge solution for tree care services. The company's arborists and technicians are utilizing drones to revolutionize how they assess, monitor, and maintain trees in the community.

The equipment manufacturing industry is still recovering from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly three years after its onset.

With that fact firmly in mind, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) regularly surveys its members regarding their thoughts on various economic trends and how they are affecting their efforts to do business, both within the United States and abroad. In the latest survey, most respondents stated that they are still experiencing supply chain issues, with many saying that conditions continue to worsen.

Many tree services call customers this time of year to recommend they get injections to protect against pests. The treatments can be expensive, and some wonder if they’re really necessary. Arborists say it depends.

As trees begin to leaf, tree service companies call customers to recommend they get injections in their trees to protect against pests. Failing to do so, some claim, risks losing whole trees. 

In Q1 2023, Konecranes won an order for two Generation 6 Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbor Cranes from Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS), its first-ever mobile harbor crane order in Cambodia. The cranes will be delivered in Q4 2023.

PAS is owned and run by the Cambodian government and plays a critical role in the national economy as the country’s only deep-water port. As the rate of cargo throughput continues to rise each year, PAS decided to add mobile harbor cranes to the port’s infrastructure to improve capacity and efficiency.

REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Arborist Cassie Sigloh of Redmond is among individuals and organizations being honored this year by the Oregon Department of Forestry and the non-profit organization Oregon Community Trees.

Every industry is trending digital, including excavation. If hydro excavation is your preferred method, augmenting your fleet with a digital control console will empower you to work with greater efficiency than ever. Vortex by Tornado Global Hydrovacs is an innovative tool that will give your hydrovacs and operators complete control at the job site. Learn more about Vortex and how you can use it to advance your hydro excavation fleet’s capabilities.