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50 Years in East Kilbride and Konecranes UK is still growing
May 1959 was the official opening of the then JH Carruthers, now KONECRANES UK, new factory in College Milton, East Kilbride.
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Liebherr Sunderland Works Ltd awards new crane contract to KONECRANES UK
KONECRANES UK has won the contract to supply a double hoist 66 tonne CXTD double girder crane for Liebherr Sunderland Works Ltd who build  ship, offshore and special purpose cranes.  The new crane will operate in one of the fabrication bays.  Read more

HBK Vastgoed B.V orders KONECRANES for its Krimpen facility
KONECRANES UK has been awarded the contract to supply two
64 tonne SMD cranes at 40 metres span to the Hollandia HBK Vastgoed Netherlands site at Krimpen.
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SELECT PLANT ORDERS FURTHER MODERNISATION AND CRANE MOVEMENT OF 2 X 40T GOLIATH CRANES FOR THEIR NEW STEETLY SITE
East Kilbride crane manufacturer KONECRANES UK has won the contract to modernise and move two 40 tonne Goliath cranes to the new Select Plant facility at Steetly, on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border.  Select Plant are part of Laing O'Rourke who are developing the site as a new manufacturing facility. Read more

Konecranes UK to modernise Bifab’s cranes at Methil
East Kilbride overhead crane manufacturer KONECRANES (UK) has been contracted to modernise 2 cranes at the Burntisland Fabrications Ltd (Bifab) Methil site. Read more

3 power plant export orders for KONECRANES UK   Read more

NO GLOOM AND DOOM FOR FORESEEABLE FUTURE AT KONECRANES (UK) KONECRANES (UK) finished 2008 on a high with over 77% growth and entered 2009 with a healthy backlog of orders and new ones coming in. Part of the global Konecranes group, the UK company exceeded many of the group’s 2008 returns.Read more

Siemens orders KONECRANES for France and Netherlands Power projects KONECRANES UK has been awarded two contracts by Siemens AG to supply three identical cranes for two combined cycle gas turbine plants with an aggregate capacity of 860MW on its Emile Huchet site in France and Rijnmond II, a turnkey combined cycle power plant located in the Netherlands. Read more

Weatherford EC awards Cyprus cranes supply contractEast Kilbride based KONECRANES UK has been awarded the contract to supply six industrial cranes by Weatherford EC for a project in Cyprus. Read more