14.07.2010 Hard working days
Hard working days.

25.06.2010 DINO trailer platform to build gas pipelines
LTECH has delivered a DINO 230 T trailer platform to for ‘Glavneftegazstroyservis’ in Almetjevsk.

25.06.2010 Belarus swept away by Russian cranes
Russian manufacturers had brought their lifting and handling equipment to the trade show in Minsk launched June 23.

24.06.2010 Neftegaz 2010: KAMAZ presents new special-purpose vehicle
The 13th Moscow International Exhibition ‘Equipment and Technologies for Oil and Gas NEFTEGAZ 2010’ has seen KAMAZ introduce new equipment for jack pump repair and maintenance: AROK special-purpose vehicle mounted on KAMAZ-43114 6x6 chassis.

24.06.2010 Liebherr supplies cranes for Kashagan
Liebherr is supplying cranes for the Kashagan oil-and-gas field in the North Caspian Sea.

24.06.2010 CMP sets up house in Moscow
Chelyabinsk Mechanical Plant (JSC CMP) has opened its office in Moscow June 2010. The enterprise is undertaking this far-reaching step to market its brand Chelyabinets in central Russia.

23.06.2010 Severstal to supply metal to Komatsu
Severstal will deliver metal products for manufacturing excavators to the new Komatsu plant in Yaroslavl.

23.06.2010 Crane collapsed in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, three people killed
A tower crane collapsed in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on Tuesday morning. The accident occurred while it was dismantled; the crane jib hitt a 10-storey building.

23.06.2010 Moscow authorities to ban noisy construction equipment
The Moscow authorities are planning an inventory of all construction equipment that has a permit to carry out any activity at night.

22.06.2010 Mobile scaffolds for Russky Island bridge mounted
The construction company engaged in building a bridge to the Russky Island has performed a unique maneuver of mounting mobile scaffolds.

22.06.2010 Liebherr opens warehouse and repair facility in Moscow region
LLC Liebherr-Russland has opened a new construction equipment repair and storage facility in Moscow region.

21.06.2010 Vladimir Putin visits Komatsu plant
Vladimir Putin visited the new Komatsu plant in Yaroslavl late last week.

21.06.2010 Chaika-Service presents radioactive waste transportation vehicle
Chaika-Service automobile factory has adapted Volvo FM for radioactive waste transportation, adding a special-purpose all-metal body.

18.06.2010 John Deere demo show in Domodedovo
John Deere held a road construction equipment show in their new premises in Domodedovo on June 3.

18.06.2010 Tower crane accident filed in Rostov
A criminal case was opened over the collapse of a tower crane on May 12 this year, resulting in one death and four injuries in Rostov-on-Don.

17.06.2010 Falling tower crane injures three builders in Dolgoprudny
Three workers were injured as a tower crane hit the ground at a construction site in the town of Dolgoprudny outside Moscow, Moscow region’s police told Itar-Tass on Thursday.

17.06.2010 Elk rescued by crane in Chelyabinsk
An unusual phone call came to Chelyabinsk EMERCOM: an elk fell down into a deep boulder quarry.

17.06.2010 Cranes and other fairy-tale birds
Grupo Puja! the Argentinean-Spanish theatre company, is taking part in the Norilsk Theatre Festival in Krasnoyarsk territory.

16.06.2010 Polish lifting equipment experts honoured in Odessa
The Mayor of Odessa (Ukraine) handed out awards to Polish citizens for their invaluable contribution into lifting equipment research and development.

16.06.2010 MEC scissor lifts starring in promo video
‘Fresh Production Company’, an expert in commercials and music videos, has turned to LTECH - Lifting Technologies for shooting a new clip with the help of the MEC 2633ES scissor lifts, indispensable for the set-dressing.

16.06.2010 Krasnoyarsk strongmen had the best of 50-tonner
Two Russian strongmen had set a country record in Krasnoyarsk.

15.06.2010 CTT'2010 reviews Liebherr tower crane simulator
Liebherr Group presented its construction crane training simulator to the CTT'2010 visitors.

11.06.2010 Sochi’s record-breaking investment
Russia will spend about $ 30 billion for the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games - ten times more than any of the last Winter Olympics - Turin, Italy, or Salt Lake City, U.S.A, or Vancouver, Canada – with the budgets ranging $ 1.5 to 3 billion.

11.06.2010 CTT'2010: Ivanovskaya Marka 60- and 80-tonners
On June 1, the very first day of the CTT exhibition, Ivanovskaya Marka Trading Company held a press conference along with The Research Institute of Crane Building and JSC Avtokran. The main points were 2010 technological specialties and the prospects of the Ivanovets crane trucks.

10.06.2010 СTT’2010: Looking Back
While the 11-th International Specialized Exhibition СTT’2010 is now history, it will surely be remembered by its participants and the guests of Crocus Expo, Moscow, not only for the changeable weather, but mostly for the warm sentiment in the exhibition area.

09.06.2010 CTT’2010: JCB presents 3CX backhoe
JCB used every opportunity to underscore its presence at CTT’2010. The British manufacturer had held its presentation even before the 11th Russian Construction Machinery Forum was officially open.

08.06.2010 John Deere at CTT'2010: ‘We promote not only our business, we promote Russia!’
John Deere held a press conference at the ‘Construction Machinery and Tehnologies'2010’ exhibition June 2.

08.06.2010 Komatsu opens factory in Russia
Komatsu Manufacturing Rus has truly made history with the launch of its first factory in Russia in Yaroslavl region June 2!

07.06.2010 CTT'2010: nearly gone with the wind
Nature has gone amok on June 4, the last before the closing day of the Construction Machinery and Tehnologies'2010 exhibition. It poured, it stormed, the lightning played in the sky.

02.06.2010 Komatsu launches factory in Yaroslavl
Komatsu Ltd., a major Japanese construction machinery manufacturer, launches a factory in Yaroslavl today, June 02.

01.06.2010 CTT’2010 opens in Moscow
The 11th specialized International Exhibition ‘Construction Equipment and Technologies 2010’ (CTT’2010) opens at Crocus Expo in Moscow June 01, bringing together the leading world and domestic manufacturers of construction equipment.

01.06.2010 Chaika-Service presents ISUZU-based tower trailer
Chaika-Service automobile factory has mounted the Russian-Italian Socage DA-22 telescopic tower onto the ISUZU NPR75LL chassis.

31.05.2010 Palfinger launches training center in Russia
OOO Palfinger Kran Rus has opened its custom-built training centre to hold the first round of dealer educational seminars for Palfinger outlets in Russia.

28.05.2010 Klintsy and Galich going to Minsk
JSC Klintsy truck crane plant and JSC Galich mobile cranes plant will hold a joint trade show in Minsk June 23-24.

28.05.2010 Korean cars for Kazakh metro arrive in Russian Vladivostok
South Korean rolling stock, 16 units altogether, weighing 592 tons, arrived in the Vladivostok cargo port.

28.05.2010 Chaika-Service mount Soosan on Hyundai
Chaika-Service motor-works presented a 3-ton Hyundai-120 truck with crane Soosan SCS 334 manipulator crane mounted to the rear overhang.

27.05.2010 Flying cranes
Three incidents involving cranes are reported in Russia, Ukraine and Armenia.

26.05.2010 Russian mystique: the dancing bridge in Volgograd
The bridge across the Volga in Volgograd, put into operation with much fanfare in October last year, was closed hastily May 19.

25.05.2010 Vityaz and FASSI join effort to build unique crawler-transporter
The machine-building company ‘Vityaz’, Ishimbaj, Bashkortostan, has developed a unique crawler-transporter in cooperation with the Italian leading manipulator crane manufacturer FASSI.

25.05.2010 Truck hijackers face trial in Yekaterinburg
The Sverdlovsk regional court began proceedings against a hijacking gang on May 21.

24.05.2010 HELI Greens sell like hot cakes in Russia
FLS, the exclusive distributor for HELI products in Russia, is bringing in a shipload of environmentally-friendly Heli ‘Green’ forklifts in mid-June.

24.05.2010 Komatsu to start production plant in Yaroslavl
Komatsu Manufacturing Rus will open its first assembly plant in Yaroslavl on June 2, 2010.

20.05.2010 Faresin hired by St. Petersburg’s largest vegetable depot
LTECH - Lifting Technology has delivered a Faresin 17.40 telescopic handler to JSC ‘Nart’, a major vegetable depository in St. Petersburg.

20.05.2010 Chaika-Service offers Amco Veba cranes
Chaika-Service motor-works will install Amco Veba marine cranes on sea vessels, piers or permanent ground platforms at customer’s request.

20.05.2010 Crane failure in Vladivostok
A gantry crane collapsed in Vladivostok.

19.05.2010 Russian helicopter drives Vancouver cats mad
The Vancouver local history museum turned to the Russian Kamov-32K helicopter crane to hoist ventilation equipment to the roof of its exhibition building.

19.05.2010 Irkutsk tragedy
A rescue operation resulted in a tragedy in the Irkutsk region. A man slipped from the crane jib and fell into the river.

19.05.2010 High-level problem-solving
The most efficient way to stand your ground these days is to put a tower crane on it.

19.05.2010 Vintage gear show in Nizhny Novgorod
Veteran trucks and cranes are being honoured for their long faithful service in Nizhny Novgorod. The rare vehicles are mounted on a pedestal for everyone to see.

18.05.2010 Russian-Chinese Engineering & Electronics Trade Fair 2010 opens in Heilongjiang
Russian-Chinese Engineering & Electronics Trade Fair featuring over 320 enterprises from both countries has opened in Heilongjiang Province, China.

18.05.2010 KAMAZ at ‘Autostrada Polska’
JSC KAMAZ, Russia's largest heavy truck manufacturer, presented its machinery to the Western consumer at the ‘Autostrada Polska’ trade fair in Kielce, Poland.

17.05.2010 China will assemble Belarusian tractors
A factory assembling Belarusian tractors will be launched in China in 2010.

17.05.2010 Vietnam delegation calls on Amkodor
A Vietnamese delegation led by Nguem The Thao, the Mayor of Hanoi, has visited JSC Amkodor, Belarus.

17.05.2010 ‘Lift-and-Carry’ Race in Krasnoyarsk
A loader race is the hit of the Motor-Expo-Show in Krasnoyarsk on May 18.

17.05.2010 Jungheinrich to hold press-conference in St. Petersburg
‘Jungheinrich Forklifts Trade Fair’ comes again to St. Petersburg on May 18-20, 2010.

14.05.2010 ChTZ goes for road construction
Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant will be supplying road construction equipment within the frame of the national road construction program.

14.05.2010 Economic recovery in Russia
Jones Lang LaSalle analysts believe that Russia's economy is on the way to recovery. The company issued a positive review of the real estate and investment market in Russia.

14.05.2010 From cab to worse
Two tower crane industrial accidents happened recently: a crane section crushed in Rostov-on-Don, and a crane cabin nearly burnt to ashes in Surgut.

13.05.2010 LTECH fixes Scanclimber platform at defence site
LTECH - Lifting Technologies has mounted the Scanclimber SC 4000 mast platform onto the Signal instrument-making plant building in Obninsk, Kaluga region.

13.05.2010 Murmansk Fishing Port upgrades handling equipment
The Murmansk fishing port presents new loading and handling equipment.

12.05.2010 Chaika-Service presents new manipulator-equipped truck
Chaika-Service motor-works released the new KAMAZ-4308 flatbed tow truck equipped with Amco Veba 816 T 2s loader crane.

12.05.2010 32-meter sky-lift for ‘Thank you’ flash-mob snapshot
An unusual flash-mob has taken up Victory Park in Pardaugava, Latvia. Over 1000 young people stood in a human chain to put together a giant ‘Spasibo’ (Thank you) to the veterans of the Second World War.

12.05.2010 Olimpstroy goes for rigorous environmental control
Olimpstroy state corporation will tighten environmental control over the Winter Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi construction.

11.05.2010 John Deere launches a new production site in Moscow
John Deere has opened a new manufacturing center and spare parts depot in Domodedovo, south of Moscow.

30.04.2010 LTECH has supplied UpRight lift to the leader in timber industry in Russia
LTECH-Lifting Technology carried a supply of a self propelled lift UpRight AB 38 N to Ilim Group, who is the leader of the Russian pulp and paper industry.

30.04.2010 Volvo CE strikes a deal with Russian-oriented distributor
Volvo Construction Equipment has signed an exclusive agreement with Ferronordic Group in move to boost its presence on the Russian market.

30.04.2010 Chaika-Service to make Isuzu double cabs
Chaika-Service motor-works will release a double cabin on Isuzu chassis in 2010.

30.04.2010 Ramirent to open its 344th outlet in Moscow
The Finnish company Ramirent will open a new rental center in Moscow June 3, 2010.

29.04.2010 Balkancar and ChTZ go together
JSC Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) is planning to manufacture Russian-Bulgarian Balkancars.

29.04.2010 Kievpribor explosion kills two
Two workers died in a powerful explosion at the Kievpribor factory, Ukraine.

29.04.2010 Amkodor at RESTA 2010
JSC Amkodor (Belarus) participated in the international exhibition RESTA 2010, held at the exhibition center Litexpo, Vilnius, April 14 to 17. This is the main event for the construction business in Lithuania.

29.04.2010 Motovilikha Plants stages a show
Motovilikha Plants gave an Industrial Music Concert on April 25. The Perm Opera Theater Symphony Orchestra and the industrial/ambient band Reutoff participated.

27.04.2010 JSC KAZ pushes into tower crane market
JSC Klintsy Truck Crane Works (KAZ) considers further collaboration with the Italian crane building company Peiner System as one of its top priorities.

26.04.2010 Ivanovskaya Marka and Kranbank offer loan
The Trading Company Ivanovskaya Marka and the Moscow branch of the Joint-Stock Bank Kranbank offer a lending program for purchase of ready-made special-purpose equipment and for having one manufactured on request.

26.04.2010 McDonald's Corp. gave Moscow authorities a legal punch!
The court fight began three years ago, when Moscow tried to make the fast-food giant pay the rent - at least at the lowest rate.

23.04.2010 Diggerland in Moscow
The Diggerland amusement park is to open at the Russian Exhibition Center (VVC) in Moscow soon.

23.04.2010 AvtoKrAZ presents new dump truck
AvtoKrAZ holding company, Ukraine, presented the new ‘Miner’ KrAZ S18.0 dump truck at the ComTrans 2010 exhibition in Moscow.

22.04.2010 Baltkran to make trainer-crane for Lukoil
LUKOIL group is all set to have the best training grounds in Oil & Gas industry. Among other things, the company is planning to invest in simulators for helicopter pilots.

22.04.2010 Mostovik cranes go up
Mostovik R&D company will file for to a license to manufacture heavy-duty machinery.

21.04.2010 Bison races at 100 km/h
Bison holding company, Rostov, Russia, will present its racer tractor on April 22 with the view of Russia's tractor competition Bison-Track-Show.

20.04.2010 Ivanovskaya Marka presents new mobile cranes
Ivanovskaya Marka Trading Company presented the new modifications of the popular brand at the trade show ‘The new generation of Ivanovets cranes’.

20.04.2010 BelAZ goes cyber
Belarusian Automobile Works (BelAZ) and the Institute of Physics under the Academy of Sciences of Belarus will present an unmanned mining dump truck by the end of 2010.

20.04.2010 LTECH has supplied a machine to the largest Russian carrier of unique, oversize and heavy cargo
LTECH-Lifting Technology has supplied a self-propelled scissor lift on electric traction model Airo SF920 E 2E to the world-famous carrier Volga-Dnepr, the company which specializes on carriage of oversize and heavy cargo.

19.04.2010 Over 2500 equipment units engaged in Olympic construction in Sochi
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) experts are regular guests in Sochi.

16.04.2010 Baltkran to supply cranes for 2014 Olympics
JSC Baltkran is contracted to deliver two bridge cranes for Adler thermal power plant construction.

16.04.2010 MMP will make 600-hp engine
Minsk Motor Works (Belarus) is going to transfer 600-hp D-280 diesel engine prototype to Belarusian Auto-works (BelAZ) in April.

16.04.2010 My gantry crane is my home and castle
An ‘industrialized home’ was presented recently by M.D.Shernin. The bold concept makes use of a gantry crane metal frame as the base for the unusual residential dwelling.

15.04.2010 Olympics-80 flame is back
The main symbol of the Olympics-1980 returns to Moscow. The Olympic flame bowl will now reside at the Alley of Glory in Luzhniki sports complex.

14.04.2010 Activists seize crane in Kiev
NGO campaigners entered a building site on April 13 and seized a tower crane in protest against construction works being held dangerously close to the Sophia of Kiev conservation area.

13.04.2010 Chaika-Service to highlight Commercial Vehicles 2010
Chaika-Service motor-works will present their machines at the 10th specialized International Exhibition of Commercial Vehicles 2010.

12.04.2010 Doors Open Day in Chelyabinsk road-construction college
The road-construction college in Chelyabinsk has shown a creative approach in marketing itself among prospective students.

09.04.2010 Nord Stream: first pipe laid down
The first Nord Stream gas pipe had been laid onto the bed of the Baltic Sea, Gazprom chairman Alexei Miller announced in a telephone conversation with Dmitry Medvedev, the President of Russia.

09.04.2010 Country Park buys Dino 210XT lift
The Moscow Country Park business hub has purchased a Dino 210XT trailer crank lift.

08.04.2010 Baltkran seminar for Russian Railways
Baltkran held a seminar for senior engineers of Russian Railways at the end of March.

08.04.2010 China to invest in Sochi Olympics
Chinese investment firms are all set to invest up to two billion dollars in Sochi hotel construction. China-based companies will build up the winter sports capital, provided they are guaranteed buy-out rights after the 2014 Olympics.

07.04.2010 Chaika-Service presents ‘Road Master’
Chaika-Service automobile factory has released its Road Master – a special-purpose vehicle for road construction and repair, equipment loading and working teams’ transportation, seating 9 persons.

06.04.2010 Transas to present crane simulator in Moscow
The Russian Transas group of companies (TRANsport SAfety Systems) will present a new harbour crane simulator at the Moscow CranExpo-2010 exhibition.

06.04.2010 Crane jib hits worker in Chechnya
A construction worker was injured while assembling an 80-meter mobile tower in Chechnya.

06.04.2010 Two Chinese-made cranes temporarily banned from construction sites in Krasnoyarsk
All Chinese-made tower cranes are operated with safety violations in Krasnoyarsk Territory. This is the conclusion experts arrived at, having examined the equipment after an industrial accident in Severny district.

05.04.2010 Crawler crane turns turtle in northwest Moscow
A crawler crane overturned on Marshal Zhukov avenue in Moscow on April 2.

05.04.2010 Scanclimber platform is installed into the building of Mongolian Embassy
Single mast Scanclimber platform SC4000 was installed on the building of Mongolian Embassy which is required reconstruction. The Embassy is located in the very center of Moscow.

02.04.2010 Bauman university stages weight-handling show
The Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Pod’emtransservis R&D firm, Stroymashavtomatizatsiya data center and the Weight-handling magazine joined their efforts on the ‘Handling Equipment and Technology’ exhibition and forum.

02.04.2010 Excavator production grows by 320% in Russia
Russia sees mixed trends in tractor, agricultural, timber-cutting and road construction machine-building and municipal communal services equipment manufacturing for January-February 2010 as compared to the same period last year, the Russian Mechanical Engineering Union says.

01.04.2010 The funny side of the construction business
Along with many other countries Russia goes laughing on April 1. To honor Fool’s Day we offer you a limited selection of ‘building gaffes’.

31.03.2010 Chaika-Service presents new boom truck
Chaika-Service motor-works will present the new Socage T17 truck access platform in Rostov and Krasnodar.

31.03.2010 Cranes go flying in spring
A whole chain of construction crane accidents occurred in Russia for the second time since the beginning of the year.

31.03.2010 Rostekhnadzor calculates damage
Russia suffers serious damage from industrial accidents with lifting equipment.

30.03.2010 GAZ Group to release new grader
The new heavy-duty motor grader DZ-98M it is the only in its class to operate easily at low temperatures in northern latitudes.

29.03.2010 ChTZ resumes exports of machinery
Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) has supplied four medium-sized 10-ton traction plastic-lined B-11 crawler dozers to Poland via its Polish dealer GAMMA.

29.03.2010 Tower crane collapsed in Krasnoyarsk
Hundreds of citydwellers watched in horror as a tower crane collapsed overa busy avenue in Krasnoyarsk.

26.03.2010 Komatsu to start own distribution in Russia
Komatsu is planning to set up a subsidiary in Russia by July 2010. The company will oversee distribution and sales on the Russian market.

26.03.2010 PK-46 loader gets new engine
Open JSC Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant-Uraltrak will equip its PK-46 Proffi front loader with the new 4T371 four-cylinder engine of the ‘T’ series developed by ChTZ under a government contract.

26.03.2010 Ex-Rostekhnadzor bosses jailed
Rostekhnadzor, Russia’s industrial safety regulator, has two of its senior managers for the Krasnodar Territory, North Caucasus, sentenced to prison terms for bribery.

25.03.2010 Another machine went to The Saint Petersburg Metro
Mechanization control of The Saint Petersburg Metro used a special machine model UpRight AB 38 while building new station “Ligovskiy Prospect”.

25.03.2010 KAMAZ and CNH strike joint venture deal
KAMAZ Inc. and CNH Global NV of FIAT Group, signed a joint venture agreement for agricultural and construction machinery production.

25.03.2010 Belarus to build special-purpose machinery center in Venezuela
ZAO Belzarubezhstroy, Belarus will build a service center for maintenance and repair of special-purpose machinery in Venezuela.

24.03.2010 Ivanovskaya Marka presents new cranes
Ivanovskaya Marka trading company and JSC Avtokran are holding a joint press conference on April 7 to present their new products.

24.03.2010 Four Liebherr cranes arrive in Sochi
Liebherr AG had delivered four mobile cranes to Sochi cargo port.

24.03.2010 JSC KAZ at Bauma 2010
JSC Klintsy truck crane plant will participate in Bauma 2010, the 29th International trade fair for construction machinery, construction vehicles and construction equipment, to be held in April 19 - 25 in Munich, Germany.

23.03.2010 Heavy-duty cranes to be built in Krasnoyarsk
Unique heavy-duty cranes for nuclear power plant construction will be manufactured in the Krasnoyarsk region, acting regional economy minister Sergey Vereshchagin announced at the Unified Russia party conference on March 20, 2010.

22.03.2010 Russia should be one of the largest infrastructure markets in the world
Russia will become one of the largest infrastructure markets in the world over the next 15 years, according to CG / LA Infrastructure, a strategic advisory firm.

22.03.2010 Amkodor and Velmash launch new forwarder
JSC Amkodor of Belarus and OOO Velmash-Service of Velikie Luki, Pskov region, Russia have joined forces in serial production of a 12-ton capacity Amkodor-Velmash 2661 loader/carrier.

19.03.2010 Chaika-Service to put 15 million rubles into modernization
Chaika-Service automobile factory will invest 15 million rubles in modernization in 2010, the company’s CEO Yevgeny Ganin pledged.

19.03.2010 Crane operator fined in Amur region
A crane operator found guilty of violating construction work safety regulations, the Amur regional court ruled.

18.03.2010 JSC GAKZ launches new 60-ton truck crane
Galich truck crane plant (JSC GAKZ) starts manufacturing a new KS-65721-2 truck crane, 60 ton load capacity, on MZKT-700600 8x4 chassis.

18.03.2010 Chaika-Service turns 17
Spring comes with birthday mood to Chaika-Service - the automobile factory is 17 years old! The company started its operations in 1993 with customizing Volga cars for the Gorky automobile plant.

18.03.2010 New Potain for LNPP-2
A new tower Potain crane will be delivered to the Unit-2 construction site at the Leningrad nuclear power plant soon. Ground works are already under way.

16.03.2010 Liebherr sets new dome onto Sukhumi cathedral
Easter coming soon, OOO Morion of Trekhgorny in Chelyabinsk Region, Russia, had set a new dome and raised ornate crosses onto the main cathedral of Sukhumi in Abkhazia.

15.03.2010 Haulotte – keep out!
The authorities are trying hard to prevent faulty machinery from entering the Russian market, but it appears that no effort is enough. There are foreign manufacturers who would supply defective products time and again.

15.03.2010 Vitstroytehmash gets Golden Europe Award for Quality
The International Trade Leader's Club has given the prestigious Golden Europe Award for Quality to Vitstroytehmash company of Vitebsk, the Republic of Belarus.

15.03.2010 Crane kills engineer in Zaporozhye
A tragic industrial accident occurred at OOO Gaychur in Zaporozhye (Ukraine) on March 9.

12.03.2010 Russian Construction Machinery Market in 2009
PROM-MARKETING Research Company reviews the results of the construction and utilities equipment market performance in Russian in 2009.

11.03.2010 Chaika-Service presents new auto-hydraulic hoist
Chaika-Service motor-car factory has launched a joint Russian-Italian innovative project.

11.03.2010 Driven crane driver
A crane operator is accused of safety violation in Goryachy Klyuch, Kuban region.

10.03.2010 OJSC ABC Corporation presents ARC lifting crane system
OJSC ABC Corporation has developed a new lifting crane system. The Russian-made Automatic Rescue Climber (ARC) will be used in construction and maintenance of wind power generator masts.

09.03.2010 GAZ Group goes for advanced technology
Tver Exkavator (TVEKS) and Chelyabinsk Road Construction Machines (CHSDM) have branched out into fundamentally new products.

05.03.2010 Ivanovskaya Marka at Southern Architecture and Construction Forum - 2010
Ivanovskaya Marka among other leaders of the construction market joined Southern Architecture and Construction Forum – 2010 in Krasnodar, South Russia.

05.03.2010 Maeda mini-crane has settled in one of the oldest universities of Russia
LTECH-Lifting Technology has supplied a mini crane Maeda 285 CRM-E to The G.V. Plekhanov Saint Petersburg State Mining Institute and Technical University.

04.03.2010 Ivanovskaya Marka and JSC GTLK strike partnership
Ivanovskaya Marka trading company, one of the leading Russian suppliers of road construction and special equipment, and JSC State Transportation Leasing Company (GTLK) have signed a cooperation agreement late 2009.

04.03.2010 Bashkran to build a plant in Vladimir
Moscow OJSC Bashkran is planning to start the construction of tower crane works in Vladimir region in May 2010.

04.03.2010 Donaldson opens e-shop in Russia
Donaldson Company, Inc. has opened an online store in Russia.

04.03.2010 ‘Booming’ business
A crane jib was stolen from an industrial site in Odessa (Ukraine) on March 2.

03.03.2010 JSC KAZ suming up 2009
JSC Klintsy truck crane plant had suffered a sharp drop in orders and sales because of the financial crisis but stood its ground nonetheless.

03.03.2010 Court declares NKZ bankrupt
Chelyabinsk Regional Arbitration Court has upheld ZAO Nyazepetrovsk Crane Works (NKZ) bankruptcy petition and appointed external management.

02.03.2010 Tower cranes past their date in Kazan
No less than 80% of tower cranes used on construction sites in Kazan are obsolete and have long exceeded their qualified life.

02.03.2010 Amkodor to enter EU market
Amkodor machine-building company of Belarus has been awarded the 25-years’ European Union industrial design certificate for its AMKODOR-320 universal loader.

01.03.2010 25 new bridges to be built in Sochi by the 2014 Olympics
Stroytrest construction company is currently building 25 new bridges in Sochi for the major 2014 Olympic thoroughfare.

01.03.2010 Avtokran and Gazpromkran appoint new CEOs
Russia’s leading machine-building plants received a new boss each on February 16.

01.03.2010 Fatal falls
Several serious lifting equipment accidents occurred over the weekend.

27.02.2010 JSC KAZ to have a hand in Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP reconstruction
JSC Klintsy truck crane plant may help to rebuild the Sayan-Shushenskaya hydro power plant severely damaged by an explosion last year, Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System says.

26.02.2010 How to do a BelAZ
BelAZ heavy-duty dump-trucks are manufactured in Zhodino, 60 km from Minsk (Belarus).

25.02.2010 Moscow construction industry suffers 35-40% drop
The financial crisis had slashed building activity in Moscow by 35-40%, first deputy mayor Vladimir Resin said.

24.02.2010 Russian tower crane market
Tower cranes take the leading position in Russia's loading industry, ID-Marketing research agency reports. Most hoisting and rigging in building and construction sector depends on tower cranes.

24.02.2010 Russian loader cranes market in 2009: imports
Manipulator devices’ import dropped 4.7 times, or by 78.5% in Russia in 2009 compared with 2008, ID-Marketing research company reports.

19.02.2010 PowerCat loses its claws in Russia
PowerCat, the brand previously used by Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. for front loaders’ export into Russia, had not lived to 2010.

19.02.2010 Real manipulators!
Police arrested ingenious car thieves in Chelyabinsk.

19.02.2010 ChTZ to send 'tropical' loading trucks to India
Open JSC Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant-Uraltrak is planning to sell specially adapted heavy-duty wheeled front-end loaders PK-65 ‘Proffi’ to India.

18.02.2010 LTECH has installed a unique system BMU on the elite Residential Complex “Four Winds”
The elite Residential Complex “Four Winds” in the nearest future will be ready to accept its happy occupants. Meanwhile one of the last moments in having the final view of the building was montage of a unique system for façade maintenance (MBU system).

18.02.2010 FLS confirmed as official TOYOTA dealer
FLS yet again was confirmed as an official TOYOTA dealer for Rostov Region and Krasnodar Territory in January 2010.

18.02.2010 Hurricane knocks down crane in Stavropol
Hurricane swept over Stavropol in Southern Russia. A tower crane collapsed at a local construction site.

18.02.2010 Medvedev invites Greek businesses to Sochi Olympics
Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, met Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou and invited Greek companies to have a hand in Olympic construction in Sochi, the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics using the experience gained during the Summer Olympic Games in Athens year 2004.

17.02.2010 Baltkran to supply gantry crane to Vorkuta
JSC Baltkran will supply a new wide overhanging gantry crane to Severnaya mine in Vorkuta.

17.02.2010 Russia’s fleet of truck cranes
Prom-Marketing social studies agency undertaking a research of Russia’s fleet of truck cranes in late 2009 revealed that it heavily relies on Soviet legacy.

16.02.2010 Ivanovskaya Marka launches English-language site
NAMEKS, Ivanovskaya Marka trading company export arm, has launched an English-language website.

16.02.2010 Medvedev inspects mining machinery in Kemerovo
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Kedrovsky coal mine in Kemerovo on Friday.

12.02.2010 Dinolift goes underground
St. Petersburg metro has purchased a Dinolift 135 T towed access from LTECH-Lifting Technology.

11.02.2010 Forbes names most expensive homes in Moscow
Forbes Russia publishes its February list of the most expensive homes in Moscow.

11.02.2010 Falling crane jib kills one in Sochi
Crane operator died in an industrial accident at the Olympic construction site in Sochi on February 9.

10.02.2010 JSC KAZ presents self-mounting tower crane
JSC Klintsy truck crane plant has presented a new self-erecting tower crane KB-108 today. Project designers consider it an excellent solution for Russian construction sites.

09.02.2010 Ivanovskaya Marka to supply cranes to Syria
NAMEKS, Ivanovskaya Marka export arm, will supply Ivanovets cranes to the Syrian Arab Republic. The equipment made by JSC Gazpromkran goes to the Syrian gas company HESCO Engineering & Construction Co.

09.02.2010 Tehnoros makes unique mining cranes
Apatit gets another unique Tehnoros crane.

07.02.2010 Ivanovskaya Marka in 2009
Trading Company Ivanovskaya Marka (Brand ‘Ivanovo’) is upbeat on year 2009 results.

05.02.2010 Work safety violations in Moscow construction works
Russian industrial safety regulator Rostekhnadzor reports massive abuse of safety rules in Moscow housing construction.

03.02.2010 Nyazepetrovsk Crane Works pulls out of recession
Nyazepetrovsk Crane Works, one of the leading manufacturers of tower cranes in Russia, beats recession with new construction orders.

02.02.2010 LTECH raises arts profile
LTECH-Lifting technology has sold an electric vertical tower hoist model UpRight MB 26 N to the Center for Contemporary Culture GARAGE located in Moscow.

02.02.2010 Crane man aims high
An unemployed tower crane operator tried to boost his status by marrying President Medvedev’s daughter.

01.02.2010 Truck crane hijacker in custody
Moscow police seized a native of Ingushetia for hijacking construction equipment.

28.01.2010 P. van Adrighem moves into Russia
P. van Adrighem B. V. presented its new overseas office in Moscow. The ceremony underscored the importance of this new link among the company’s branches throughout the world - in Holland, Germany, Brazil, Egypt, UAE, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

25.01.2010 New section Vertikalnet.ru in English is available!
We are glad to inform you that English version of Vertikalnet.RU has started working!