It was a good night for Potain at the recent third edition of the Tower Crane Awards, organized by the Federation of Construction and Handling Equipment (DLR) and the Professional Union of Crane technicians (SPMDG). The awards ceremony took place...
Compass Equipment purchased the first MDT 489 M25 topless crane in North America. The Southwestern company sent the crane to work at the Las Vegas Strip last month. Compass Equipment is a longstanding and loyal Potain customer investing in both...
Mammoet is expanding its range of innovative equipment with the addition of ten new towers for its Mega Jack 800 system. Bringing the total number of Mega Jack 800 towers to 22, this will increase the global availability of an innovation that has been proven to reduce risk and improve efficiency...
The new Potain MDT 489 topless crane from Manitowoc fills the gap between the manufacturer’s popular MDT 389 and new MDT 569 models and is ideal for large-scale construction and infrastructure projects, especially the installation of large, prefabricated components,...
Two Potain tower cranes have proved the ideal fit for the tight working spaces available at the Haverly Apartments development site in downtown Phoenix. The cranes, an MD 485 top-slewing and an Igo T 85 A self-erecting crane, were...
Over the past year, the rapidly rising, 43-story One Congress office tower has become a distinct new landmark in Boston’s North End. But going largely unnoticed are the Potain MR 415 and MR 418 A tower cranes that are...
Mammoet’s crews have successfully dismantled a tower crane on site that had lifted more than 1,000 cubic meters of concrete as part of the theatre restoration construction. The original Roxy Theatre was an iconic landmark of Edmonton, Alberta, and burnt...
When a host of awkward access and structural issues meant it would be impossible to adopt traditional go-to lifting solutions for the restoration of the downtown Minneapolis Third Avenue bridge, a handful of Potain topless cranes were the novel...