LIFTING EQUIPMENT

What Steel Shortage?
South Africa’s current steel shortage is compounding an already serious obstacle to the efficient functioning of the subcontinent’s overhead crane market: declining service footprints.

Vastly-reduced Wear on Bearings
The design and construction of three of the country’s largest scissor lifts ever produced, with a capacity of up to 40 tons per lift, has recently been completed by up-and-coming dock-levelling manufacturer, REV Designs.

Heavy Lifting and Energy Projects
Mammoet’s Head of Sustainability, Erica Gray, discusses engineered heavy lifting’s role as an enabler in the transition to a low carbon future.

Very Large Jib Crane
Condra has designed and manufactured a very large jib crane for bulk recovery underground of ore spilled at an unnamed mine.

Crane Contract based on Track Record
Leveraging a healthy existing relationship with RGM Cranes, Sandvik Mining RSA appointed the company to provide 19 overhead single and double girder cranes, ranging from 3 to 30 tonnes in capacity, at its new facilities in Kempton Park.

Winches for Heavy Duty Applications
The Verlinde open winch series is now extended for heavy duty applications with the PDW series. This range of open winches provides a technical answer to lifting applications in a wide range of capacities from 6.3 to 70 tonnes, with duty classifications of up to M6.

North Vietnam and West Africa
Liebherr has delivered four transshipment cranes, type CBG 360, to its long-term customer Oldendorff Carriers for a major project in North Vietnam.

Diversifying into Mining and Construction
Shumani Industrial Equipment is planning to diversify and is investigating some opportunities in the mining industry, reveals MD Victor Nemukula.





