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The UK’s largest industrial crane and hoist producer, Street Crane Company, has launched an initiative to  recruit the next generation of engineers to take the business forward.

In this time of advanced technology wasting time means wasting money.

Mining Machinery Developments has commissioned a multi-million pound factory expansion featuring new cranes from Street Crane Company to speed the fabrication and assembly of MMD’s aggregate sizing equipment.

Two senior sales engineers are retiring from Street Crane. John East leaves having spent 49 years with the company and Roger Heywood has retired after 25 years’ service.

Street Crane now has ten cranes at Crossrail sites. The latest, a Goliath crane, is just off Oxford Street and is being used to remove excavated material and lower pre-cast concrete segments.

At the Fleetwood Nautical Campus, Blackpool College, an overhead crane from Street Crane enables trainees to practice life-saving escape from a helicopter ditching into the sea.

Street Crane is not just the UK’s largest factory crane producer, but also a major export success story. This was recognised in a visit by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne who toured the factory.

Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast has installed overhead cranes of a radical design from Street Crane Company for their new wing manufacturing and assembly facility.

During a tour of Camp Bastian maintenance workshops, High Peak MP Andrew Bingham came across two overhead cranes manufactured in Chapel-en-le Frith by Street Crane Company.

O’Brien Installations Limited designed, engineered, and installed a new Magnet Duty 25 ton, top running, double girder overhead crane for a local metal distributor in the Greater Toronto Area.

Optimum material flow is crucial in manufacturing. At their newly relocated Mechanical Drives division of Industry Automation and Drive Technologies in Leeds, Siemens called on Street Crane Company to meet their handling needs.

Dubai Cranes LLC and Street Crane Company of the United Kingdom have concluded an agreement under which advanced design factory cranes will be available to manufacturers in United Arab Emirates.

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Two overhead cranes from Street Crane are used in the final assembly of new Electrostar overground trains programme, contributing to the safety and productivity of the production operations at Bombardier, Derby.

Demag will be showcasing its lines of overhead cranes, wire rope hoists, electric chain hoists, workstation cranes, Gottwald port cranes and crane service capabilities at ProMat 2011 in booth #622.

Nottingham-based Lifting Equipment Specialist, Harold Potter Ltd, provides quality used overhead cranes for an affordable alternative to new machinery.

Demag offers pre-engineered single girder crane kits in top running or under running configurations that allow installers to do their own on-site crane assembly. The kits are shipped complete with all necessary components except the steel beams.

With almost 40 years experience in the cranes and lifting business, Paul Samples knows a lot about factory cranes. A former member of the Morris Material Handling team, Paul has joined Street Crane Company as business development manager for Asia.

The UK’s largest manufacturer of overhead travelling cranes, Street Crane Company, has launched a single girder hoist for safe lifting from 12.5 to 25 tonnes.

GM Technical Services (GMTS), based in Vereeniging in the Vaal Triangle, has concluded an agreement with Street Crane Company of the United Kingdom to bring advanced overhead crane and hoist technology to South Africa.

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An investment, exceeding one million pounds, has been completed at the Manchester operations of paper machinery maker Voith Paper Limited. The new process facility will re-grind, to ensure perfect geometry and balance in paper machine rollers.

Following a deal with Gunnebo Industries, Street Crane Company, the largest industrial crane company in the UK is now able to offer a fuller service to customers in Northern Ireland.

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Manufacturer and exporter of overhead cranes, underslung cranes, jib cranes, double truss single bridge cranes, gantry cranes, goods lifts, wire rope hoists, single girder overhead cranes and more.

Juffali Heavy Equipment Company (JHECO), based in Jeddah, and Street Crane Company from the UK have joined forces to produce cranes of up to 200 tonnes for industrial undertakings in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

With the completion of phase one of the ZX10 hoist programme, Street Crane has taken the capacity of its ZX hoist series up to 40 tonnes safe working load. The ZX10 is designed using the same modular principles as the proven ZX6-8 series.

With a strong medium term order book, successful hoist product launches completed and a major new product development programme underway, Street Crane Company is expanding its Chapel-en-le-Frith facilities.

Street Crane Company’s Australian partner, North Queensland Cranes (NQC) uses UK built hoists and components extensively and has found a niche in supplying cranes and hoists to the draglines used by the opencast coal industry.

The Charleston’s Rigging Group and Tramrail Material Handling Inc. announced a strategic partnership.

Street Crane has won orders from Wedge Galvanizing, who have purchased two double girder cranes for their Worksop plant, and Dorman Long Engineering who is buying three overhead cranes and two semi-Goliath cranes for their Nigerian galvanizing plant.