Have a look at this old British crane with a variable position counterweight on rails, recently spotted by our team at Bibiani in Ghana! We believe this crane will have started life as a hand operated railway crane similar to the one in the image below and as it was...

Belmet 7 – supplier to the oil industry – based in Takoradi, Ghana recently required their Manitowoc 16000 crawler crane to be disassembled, stripped down, serviced and reassembled. Having dominated the Takoradi skyline for 4 years the customer instructed us to dismantle the crane in order to conduct preventative works...

Mirco Minocceri, Paterson Simons training cinsultant, led training for three engineers at the Manitowoc Factory in Niella Tanaro, Italy. Ekow Jones, Pasico Service Engineer, Nkrumah Benjamin, Maintenance Engineer at PSC Tema Ship Yard and Kluvia Isaac Dzidzienyo, Electrical Engineer at PSC Tema Ship Yard enjoyed a rigorous week-long course on the Grove RT550, which...

We often receive requests for models: model cranes, model reachstackers, model forklifts and a variety of other brands. While we try and be as generous as possible, especially when a new machine has been sold, in practice it is not that simple. The models are usually made by third party model...

The Manitowoc factory in Shady Grove, Philadelphia, USA produces Rough Terrain Crane, Industrial Crane and Lattice Boom Crawler Crane lines for Manitowoc/Grove. During a recent visit to the Shady Grove facility Paterson Simons staff spent some time with the Product Verification Team, here a few highlights of thier ground-breaking work. The Product...

Paterson Simons engineers, Peter Neeveng and Elvis Dongwiri, have achieved their GMK Master Technicians certification – the highest level of training available from Manitowoc, world-leading manufacturer of Grove, Potain and Manitowoc cranes. Peter and Elvis work out of the Pasico Takoradi office – which covers mobile crane service for all of West Africa....

Download the Looking UP magazine here. Inside you’ll find a wide array of stories from around the world that showcase the range of Manitowoc brands: Manitowoc, Grove, Potain and National Crane. A look at how new cranes, such as the Manitowoc MLC650 and the Grove GHC range, are dramatically changing the...

REFURBISHED CRANES = QUALITY + EXCEPTIONAL VALUE.  BEFORE: A HD32A Potain Crane                                                                               ...

Crane owners, Jon Moore, needed their 400T Kobelco CKE 4000C JF 02 crawler crane dismantled at Sekondi Naval Base and reassembled at Kpone, Tema 250 kms away. The crane was at the time working for Tullow Oil in Sekondi where it was being used to help fabricate jumper spools for the TEN Project. The...

Pasico engineers Godwin Awadzi and Elvis Dongwiri recently travelled to Gabon to assemble and commission three brand-new 999 Manitowoc crawler cranes for Afcons Infrastructure at the ​General Cargo Terminal in the Gabon Special Economic Zone (GSEZ). The 999 model has been designed for the global market and comes with a...

Premier crane manufacturer Manitowoc recently completed an audit of our sales and service facilities as part of their Partner Development Program. The 2-day audit process was conducted by Paul Rogers, sales director MCG Africa, Betrand Guillaume, sales manager French speaking Africa (FSA), & Paulo Costa, mobile product manager (FSA). The process included checking our records,...

The 3DLiftPlan.com website offers one of the industry’s best lift solutions software applications, aiding customers in lift planning, crane selection, rigging planning and ground-bearing pressure optimization.  The free access to 3D Lift Plan is the result of a new partnership between Manitowoc Cranes and Fernandina, Florida-based A1A Software, a company...