SHOW PREVIEW
Breakbulk Americas returns to Houston with a huge exhibitor line-up. DLM brings you the lowdown in its comprehensive show preview.
running. It takes place in Port Houston, Texas, the US’s largest port for waterborne tonnage, on 22 and 23 September. The organisers are promising a cleaner,
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its location in Slaughter, LA. In addition, its engineering team can offer custom manufacturing, including bending and forming, plasma cutting, oxy-fuel cutting, drilling and CNC line boring, turning round parts and milling.
more modern look on the show floor, along with two content platforms: Breakbulk Live and Breakbulk Voices. Highlights include the Women in Breakbulk Breakfast event, plus the Cargo and Cowboys welcome party. And with the energy sector such a big driver of project cargo demand, don’t miss Tuesday’s future thinkers’ super session, which will explore the next wave of energy projects. However, the exhibition remains the main attraction – and for good reason. This year you can visit more than 330 different booths, so DLM has distilled this into a shortlist of our top picks.
Alatas, J12 Alatas helps ports maximise crane performance by delivering predictable costs and uninterrupted operations. Founded in 1988 by former Liebherr engineers, it now operates from 21 global centres. It services an extensive range of port
material handling equipment, with solutions ranging from regular maintenance to turnkey refurbishment and upgrade projects.
Anvil Innovations, T35 Anvil Innovations manufactures grapples, grabs and clamshell buckets, including electrohydraulic, diesel hydraulic, non- powered radio control and traditional cable operated units. It offers a diverse range of high-quality material handling products under brand names such as Hawco, Pro-Line, Anvil, Owen, Yaun, Williams and Drott. Anvil builds its grabs around a standard parts design that it says enables them to offer the fastest lead times in the industry. It also offers grab and bucket rental, as well as complete rebuild and repair services at
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Bolzoni Araumo, F30 Bolzoni is a leading manufacturer of lift truck attachments, forks and lift tables, claiming to have the most extensive product range in the market. The Bolzoni Group has been active for almost 75 years in the design, production and distribution of lift truck attachments and industrial material handling equipment.
Cordstrap USA, N21 Cordstrap has been providing cargo- securing solutions to export packers, lashing companies, stevedores and shipping lines in ports for over 50 years. Cordstrap provides fast, cost-effective shipping security solutions which are also a safer and easier to handle alternative to traditional steel chains and wire.
DCL Mooring & Rigging, K48 DCL specialises in heavy lift applications and is a leading fabricator of Twin-Path slings, high performance synthetic slings, web/round slings and wire rope up to 4.5” diameter. DCL
provides a full line of proprietary products such as the LBNO Pee Wee sockets, LBNO Hawser Thimbles, LBNO Anchor Line Hooks and Workhorse synthetic rope connectors. The company also offers offsite and onsite inspection, proof testing and break testing. In addition, DCL supplies RFID tagging and inventory management services powered by TESSAlink software, giving users remote 24/7 accessibility of their inventory and certifications.
ELME Spreader, N33 ELME Spreader designs and manufactures container handling solutions to make work easier and more profitable. Over the past five decades, its customers have attached more than 28,000 ELME spreaders to their lift trucks, reach stackers, straddle carriers and cranes, making ELME one the world’s leading independent spreader manufacturers. All its spreaders are built at its plant in Älmhult, Sweden. The product range includes spreaders for cranes, straddle carriers, lift trucks and reach stackers for ISO container handling and spreaders for intermodal handling. It also offers a wide range of piggyback attachments and special equipment for cranes and trucks together with a range of approved spare parts.
ELME designs and manufactures container handling solutions to make work easier.
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