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| New Direction for Glass Industry; Wood’s Powr-Grip® Releases Computer-Aided Controls to Simplify Glass Installation and Increase Safety
| Schmalz’s VacuMaster Window 500 Comfort+ is designed to lift windows, glass sheets and glass components of up to 500 kg.
| Can you love vacuum lifters? No harm starting a news item about the Hird glass lifter hire service with what seems to be a daft question.
| To meet the needs of curved glass, Wood’s Powr-Grip offers a concave style pads with a unique shape that allows the sealing edge to flex and shift while keeping a firm seal on the glass.
| Our team worked tirelessly, putting in some long days and 80-hour work weeks, to complete the starphire glass updates on the Paul Hastings North Tower, one of two Corporate International-style buildings that make up the City National Plaza in…
| Glazing robot hire customers get a two for one offer on glass lifting innovation from Winlet that continues to drive the popularity of these amazing machines.
| Hird had the ideal glass lifting hire option when a client needed to replace a glass panel on an entrance canopy. The GML800+ counterbalance floor crane fitted with a GML overhead glass manipulator vacuum lifter made light work of the job, in…
| It’s time to take a closer look at the workings of a world beater – with our Anatomy of a Glazing Robot.
| Bohle has said that it received significant interest in its balustrading and internal door ranges as installers tapped into new opportunities.
| Two innovative features on Winlet glazing robots are proving so popular with operators that they are contributing greatly to the Winlet Wow Factor.
| 27 tonnes – that’s how much an inloader frame weighs when it’s loaded with six glass packages of five tonnes each.
| The motto of Bystronic glass at Fensterbau / Frontale 2016 in Nuremberg is “Take it easy in the field of window manufacture”.
| The Winlet 350 TH telehandler attachment – the glazing robot that leaves the competition far behind on the ground – has wowed visitors to the Executive Hire Show.
| The demand for CNC work has increased over the last few years. Customers are now asking for glass in more bespoke shapes and larger sizes that both need to be processed using our CNC machines. Over the xmas break we have added a new Intermac to our…
| In a Facade XS solution, self-hoisting gondolas use the XSClimber – an electrical self-reeving traction hoist, designed and manufactured by XSPlatforms to take any gondola to the desired height safely and without any noise.
| A ground-breaking counterbalance floor crane developed according to specifications drawn up by Hird is on its way to the UK.
| Glass installers at the landmark Battersea Power station development site are winning health and safety plaudits for their use of a Winlet glazing robot on hire from Hird.
| There are many occasions where a crane is required in glazing projects. Usually this is due to the weight of the glass – but a crane can also be needed in situations where it is not possible or safe to manoeuvre the glass into position due to size…
| Reach for the skies – with the new Winlet 350 TH - Flexibility and problem solving is everything on modern construction sites.
| GGR Group’s mini spider cranes have helped in the construction of Christie’s new ground-breaking Manchester Cancer Research Centre.