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The Manitowoc Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer which produces cranes and previously produced commercial refrigeration and marine equipment. It was founded in 1902 and, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, and supports mobile telescopic cranes, tower cranes, lattice-boom crawler cranes, and boom trucks under the Grove, Manitowoc, National Crane, Potain ...
Concerns over China-made cranes have been reportedly been building among U.S. intelligence and national security officials for at least a year. Cranes from Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries, a ...
Manitowoc also manufactures National Crane Boom Trucks, a line of telescoping boom truck cranes. National Crane was founded in Nebraska by Marlo Burg in 1947, and began by manufacturing roadside weed sprayers. In 1952, National also introduced a line of front-end loaders. Operations were moved to Waverly, Nebraska in 1962, and the name National ...
There are over 200 Chinese-made cranes at U.S. ports, accounting for "nearly 80%" of the total, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. These cranes help move goods through maritime ports.
Left Coast Lifter made its first lift on the new Tappan Zee bridge in April 2015, [22] a steel-reinforced concrete pile cap which formed part of the bridge's foundation. The massive crane was being used for heavy lifts of large bridge sections, [23] and placed the final steel girder for the new Rockland-bound (westbound) span in October 2016. [24]
U.S. reliance on Chinese maritime cranes is presenting a national security risk since the cranes can be accessed remotely with built-in modems, Republicans on the House Select Committee on the ...
Weeks 533 is a 500-short-ton (454 t) capacity Clyde Iron Works model 52 barge-mounted crane which is the largest revolving floating crane on the East Coast of the United States. [1] It was originally ordered for bridge construction and has since been used in several notable heavy lifts.
The inaugural Cranes Asia conference is to take place in Singapore from 9–10 December 2009 [6] Cranes Today publishes its Fleet File every summer, usually in the June edition. Fleet File is a database of who owns what in the crane industry. In 2009 it included entries from 500 companies owning more than 38,000 cranes in 50 countries. [7]