Hoist &Tower Crane: The Ideal Combo
The advent of the hoist and working platform is changing the face of the lifting sector, in both personnel and materials handling.
Containing Costs By Remanufacturing/Rebuilding
There are few people in industry who have been spared with the recession and decision-making often changes direction when one is faced with a choice of overextending one’s line of credit to buy a new machine, or deciding to join the global ‘recycling’ trend and remanufacture or rebuild existing capital equipment.
This article will give various viewpoints, from rental companies to OEMS and end users across a number of equipment sectors.
Avoiding The Collision Zone
Article by Plant, Equipment & Hire Magazine (August 2009)
Anti-collision technologies that can be retrofitted to existing cranes have been introduced and are popular worldwide. Philippa McAlister probes the merits of this technology.
Tower cranes are the most visible piece of equipment on construction sites, and it is critical that they are installed, maintained and operated by competent personnel. Failure can and has lead to major incidents in the past and in response the construction industry is looking at various measures to improve the safety of the sector in order to reduce the risks that end up causing accidents. One of these technologies that is relatively new to South Africa is an anti-collision device that can be retrofitted to a tower crane.
SA French Receives TETA Accreditation
AltX-listed company SA French is one of the few companies to be awarded TETA (Transport Education & Training Authority) accreditation as an independent training provider.
According to SA French training manager Tilly Koortzen, the company applied for the accreditation in February this year and received its certification a short time later.
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