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Kraemer North America is replacing an 84-year-old truss bridge near Savanna, Illinois, using a barge-mounted MLC300 equipped with VPC-MAX. Variable Position Counterweight (VPC) technology enables the MLC300 to adjust its counterweight during each lift, which helps keep the barge stable while lifting. When the Manitowoc MLC300 crawler crane debuted with Variable Position Counterweight (VPC) and […]

A Manitowoc MLC300 crawler crane owned by Central Contractors Service, a division of the ALL Family of companies, is constructing a new hotel at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. Paul Urbanski, sales manager at Central, said that the 330 USt MLC300 was the best choice for the job thanks to the low ground bearing pressure […]