[INDUSTRY NEWS]
Excel® and Tycan® to integrate with Green Pin®
> Van Beest – manufacturer of Tycan® fiber chain, Excel® chain fittings and Green Pin® rope fittings – announces that it will merge the brands Tycan® and Excel® into Green Pin® as of today. As a result of this decision, Excel® will cease to exist as a separate brand and Tycan® will be used under the Green Pin® umbrella as the name for all products related to fiber technology. In merging these brands, Van Beest creates one big premium brand – Green Pin® – for all below-the-hook fittings. Van Beest will continue to manufacture Green Pin® (formerly Excel®) chain fittings at its current production location in France. Evert van Beuzekom, Vice President Sales and Procurement at the Van Beest Group reflects: “Excel®, Tycan® and Green Pin® all represent premium quality products and thus have a natural fit with one another. In merging them under one Green Pin® brand, we further support our mission of providing customers with high quality below-the-hook
fittings combined with efficient service and high stock availability.” Excel® is a premium quality brand for
chain fittings, manufactured in France since the mid-1960’s. Van Beest acquired the Excel® brand and production facilities in 2007. The transition period of replacing Excel® markings and logo’s on physical products will take several years. After this transition period the Excel® name and brand will cease to exist completely. Tycan® is a premium quality, fiber link
chain that has all the performance and flexibility of steel chain but is a fraction of the weight. Van Beest obtained the Tycan® brand through the acquisition of the Norwegian company Load Solutions in September 2017. Due to the novelty of Tycan®’s product range, Tycan® will continue to exist as a special sub-brand within the scope of the Green Pin® brand. All Green Pin® products related to fiber technology will therefore be known as Green Pin Tycan®. Van Beest will continue to sell the full
product range – Tycan® fiber chain, Green Pin® rope fittings and Green Pin® chain
fittings – under the new, premium brand name through our existing distributor network. Learn more by visiting
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Rope and Sling Targets Heavy-Lift Marketplace
> Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd. (RSS) is raising the capacity and diversity of its rigging stock, whilst equipping itself to respond to increasing demand for complex below-the-hook solutions, to more efficiently serve the heavy-lift sector. RSS attends to a myriad of industries
from six UK locations but its most recently opened site is in Warrington, close to the heavy-lift depot of Ainscough Crane Hire, which named RSS a preferred supplier of lifting and rigging equipment at the end of 2016. And the partnership, combined with market conditions, is yielding demand for heavier and often specialized rigging gear. Steve Hutin, managing director at
RSS, said: “Our heavy-lift initiative is two- pronged in that we want to ensure we have
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