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LATEST NEWS

Saudi National Contracting Company to build power transmission line in Oman
18 June, 2013 Saudi National Contracting Company (NCC) has been awarded a contract worth OMR37.7 million ($98 million) to build the first major power transmission line in Musandam Governorate, Oman.
  • Carillion Alawi wins $204 million contract from Omran
    Oman-based Carillion Alawi LLC has secured a £130 million ($204.1 million) contract from the Oman Tourism & Development Company (Omran) to construct exhibition halls, an energy centre and a three-storey car park in Oman.

LATEST FEATURES

Q&A With…
30 May, 2013 S. C. Bhatia, Managing Director, Safex Electromech.Hoist Magazine talks to S. C. Bhatia, Managing Director of Safex Electromech about the opportunities and challenges facing the Asian crane industry.
  • Learning to do business in the new Europe
    Faced with the ongoing eurozone crisis, crane manufacturers are quickly coming to terms with an uncertain, unpredictable, and often volatile market coupled with the specter of shrinking profit margins. Hoist looks at how manufacturers are coming to terms with doing business in the new Europe.
  • Zoomlion builds bridges
    One of the world’s largest cranes, the Zoomlion D5200 tower crane, has been used for the second time, for the construction of the Yingwuzhou River Bridge in Wuhan, China. The bridge over the river Yangtze has a total length of 7.8km.
  • Tackling wear inside cyclones
    Kingfisher Industrial of the UK has provided a long-term ceramic wear-resistant lining solution to a German oem maker of drying cyclones used by specialist producers of particleboard, OSB and MDF.
  • Bogie inspection & manipulation
    Lloyds Somers, a business specializing in the design and supply of handling and manipulation equipment to the rail industry, has developed its range of Bogie Rotators to accommodate the full fleet of bogies in use throughout the French Rail Network, writes Kizzi Nkwocha.


LATEST PROJECTS

SOCAR - Oil and Gas Processing and Petrochemical Complex, Azerbaijan
14 June, 2013 The Oil and Gas Processing and Petrochemical Complex project involves construction of oil and gas processing and petrochemical complex across 1,500 hectares area at Garadag in the Sangachal area, 30km from Baku in Azerbaijan.