20 January 2010 | MANITOWOC Cranes Australia has seen a number of changes in the last few months a process the company says aims to better its business in Australia and New Zealand. John Stewart is now managing all of Oceania; the sales managers have been promoted to state managers and Crane Care has a new country manager.
17 December 2009 | THIS October, at the CICA conference in Canberra, attendees were treated to some spectacular lift job presentations that were entered into the 2009 Construction Contractor Lift of the Year Awards. Picking the winner was no easy task and unlike the previous two years, the judges’ selection and the People’s Choice winner were different.
13 October 2009 | Following its recent annual general meeting and elections, the Crane Industry Council of Australia have announced that Melbourne-based Nick Morris is a newly-elected director. Sydney-based Andrew Esquilant joined the Board recently.
30 August 2009 | The Crane Industry Council of Australia has announced Zoomlion/Dellgale as the CICA 2009 Conference Platinum Sponsor. Zoomlion/Dellgale will also participate in the crane display with three units.
24 August 2009 | Construction Contractor, in association with the Crane Industry Council of Australia (CICA) is calling for entries to the 2009 Lift of the Year Awards. Nominations close August 28, 2009.
18 August 2009 | The Crane Industry Council of Australia has purchased a new office building, to be the home and foundation for its future administration operations.
30 July 2009 | CraneSafe Australia has introduced another Assessment covering Truck Mounted Concrete Pumps to complement the existing CraneSafe Program.
25 June 2009 | The Crane Industry Council of Australia has responded to recent suggestions that CraneSafe could approve counterfeit cranes by stating that their assessors have been well-briefed on the matter and have played a key role in alerting and advising industry operators.
4 June 2009 | Counterfeit cranes can only be exposed if the purchaser is familiar with exactly what that brand and model of crane should look like.
14 May 2009 | In this exclusive report, Construction Contractor talks to industry movers and shakers at Case, CICA, Semco Equipment Sales, ACA, Conplant, IQA, Infrastructure Partnerships, Manitou.
12 May 2009 | An amendment to the EN 13000 Cranes - Mobile Cranes European Standard for safe crane operation will be implemented from January 1, 2010.
24 February 2009 | The lack of agreement on crane safety standardisation could force manufacturers to make four variants for every mobile crane model produced.
24 February 2009 | Reading the newspapers one could be forgiven for thinking the world is coming to an end. However when you look around, says CICA President John Gillespie, there is still plenty of construction work in progress.
24 February 2009 | CICA has committed to updating its key strategies and action plans for the future by undertaking a fresh strategic planning process.
15 January 2009 | John Gillespie (President) and Alan Marshall (CEO) representing CICA were amongst the many industry operators and officials present at the industry launch of the NTCA in Darwin on 19 December 2008.
9 December 2008 | The 2007-08 CraneSafe assessments done by CICA across the country indicate a significant reduction in the average ages of cranes.
28 February 2008 | Also there were many boom lifts, scissor lifts and forklifts exported. I believe that CraneSafe can claim much of the credit in achieving these exports.
31 May 2007 | Eagle Cranes & Rigging won the 2006 Major lift of the Year and Gillespies Crane Services won the 2005 Simple Lift of the Year.