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Crosby’s Straightpoint Adds Alex Hopper to Inside Sales Team

Sep 26, 2019

Portsmouth, UK-based force measurement equipment manufacturer Straightpoint (SP), a Crosby Group company, has added Alex Hopper to its inside sales team. Hopper has relocated from Cheshire in England’s northwest to the south coast, where her partner has taken an in-service degree placement with…

SP to Show New Centre of Gravity Software at Offshore Energy

Sep 26, 2019

Load cell manufacturer Straightpoint (SP) will display new wireless centre of gravity software at this year’s…

Africa

Bridging the Gap Africa Utilises Straightpoint Load Cell

Jul 9, 2019

A non-profit organisation that works with rural communities in Kenya is using a 25t capacity compression load cell,…

Business

Crosby Partners with Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation

Apr 9, 2019

Dallas, Texas-based The Crosby Group LLC, the largest lifting, rigging, and material handling hardware company in the world, will donate up to $25,000 to the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation via Q2 2019 sales of its popular wire rope clips. The charity serves to provide college scholarships…

City Lifting and Modulift Raise Tower at London Airport

Apr 9, 2019

In one of the most complex series of lifts in recent memory, rental firm City Lifting utilised a number of cranes…

Business

Dutest to Distribute Straightpoint Products in UAE

Apr 9, 2019

Dutest, a third-party inspection company and lifting equipment supplier, will distribute the entire range of load…

Equipment & technology

World’s Largest Mobile Crane Lifts Girder with Modulift Beam

Mar 20, 2019

A Modulift spreader beam was used beneath the hook of the largest mobile crane manufactured in serial production in the world, at the Turcot Interchange, a three-level stack freeway project in Quebec, Canada. The MOD 110H beam, which can lift up to 170t at 11.5m (37 ft.), was used at its maximum…