COMMENT Ӏ FEBRUARY 2025


ENGINEERING THE FUTURE


From the depths of the ocean to the exploration of outer space the breadth of lifting-related activities covered in this issue is awe-inspiring. It is important, I think, for everyone working in the industry to take a moment to reflect on the sheer scale and significance of their contributions. The work carried out by lifting and rigging companies, and the manufacturers of the cranes and equipment they use, really is shaping the future of mankind. What exactly am I talking about here? Well, in our below the hook feature (on page 14), for example, read how USA-headquartered industrial machinery mover and installer PSC Crane & Rigging installed a key part of a NASA research facility in Virginia, USA. “What we’re going to do with this facility is literally change the


world,” says Clayton Turner, director of NASA Langley Research Centre. “This effort will allow us to reach for new heights, to reveal the unknown, for the betterment of humankind.” In the same feature you can discover how equipment from US lifting solutions provider The Caldwell Group is key to the installation of The Giant Magellan Telescope which is under construction at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert. When finished the 30-metre-class telescope will offer ten times the viewing power of the Hubble Space Telescope – facilitating new insights into our universe. Moving from outer space to subsea, another great example in the below the hook feature comes from UK-based Tusk Lifting which required a 400-tonne lifting beam to ensure the safe lifting of giant subsea cable reels.


MENTIONED IN THIS ISSUE Active Tunnelling


41


Al Jaber Heavy Lift & Transport 16 AMS Aircraft Recovery Britlift


16


Buckner HeavyLift Cranes The Caldwell Group DAF


Ematec


Empire Energy Offshore Empire Energy Partners Galliford Try


Hendrik Veder Group UK Ingersoll Machine Tools


18, 20 40


15, 25 16 22 34 32 42


Giant Heavy Machinery Services 30 Heavy Cranes


38 26 15


Kobelco Construction Machinery 41 Kyles Transport Lennon Crane Liebherr


16 41


9, 10, 40 This particular example touches upon another theme running


throughout this issue: the power of collaboration. For the subsea cable reel lifting job Tusk worked closely with its client and lifting equipment manufacturer Britlift to get a custom product that fitted the brief perfectly. Further collaboration comes from the energy sector.


Remaining with the below the hook feature, read how gripping tech specialist Ematec, for example, is collaborating with Danish engineering company Seasight Solutions to create a wind turbine rotor blade lifting beam that comprises Ematec's RBC yoke combined with Seasight’s Automatic Positioning System. Or how lifting solutions specialist Hendrik Veder Group UK is working with load test expert Test and Lift Engineering Services in a move designed to benefit both companies. In the energy sector feature (p28) there are many examples


of how companies are collaborating to realise the full potential of the offshore wind power sector; in fact, this is the key theme of the whole article. Read how: Tadano and Vestas; Solidd Steel Structures and Tetrahedron; Mammoet and Samyang Marine Group; Mammoet and Giant Heavy Machinery Services; Tugdock and Sarens; Sarens and Empire Energy; and Empire Energy and The Herrick Corporation, are all helping the transition to a sustainable future through the positive power of collaboration. I hope you enjoy the issue.


Christian Shelton, Editor Christian.Shelton@btmi.com


Lift-Rite


Lift-Tex Heavy Lift Slings Link-Belt Cranes Linglong


Mammoet Modulift Nabholz


Nakamura Industry NASA


Northbank Civil and Marine PSC Crane & Rigging RUD


Samyang Marine Group Sany


Sanycranes.services Sarens


Seasight Solutions Schwerlast Weise Select Plant Hire


26 22 38 13 29


14, 27 25 8


14 41 14 15 29 36 37


27, 32 22 9


40


Shirley Contracting Company Solidd Steel Structures Spliethoff Group Sunbelt Rentals Tadano


Tetrahedron


38 29 25 18


28, 41 29


Test and Lift Engineering Services 26 Terex Tower Cranes The Crown Estate


The Herrick Corporation Tugdock


Tusk Lifting


Tutt Bryant Heavy Lift & Shift UCM Holland


Van Santen Group


Verton Technologies Australia Vestas


Vita Inclinata Technologies


10 32 34 32 20 38 37 36 25 28 25


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