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Industry News
Wire & Cable ASIA – July/August 2007
Lifting Solutions completes
its largest ever steel rope order
Lifting Solutions, UK, has completed a major contract for
the 15th Asian Games in Doha, held recently in the Gulf state
of Qatar.
The company was the main lifting equipment supplier to
Stage One, the main contractor on this aspect of the
project, and supplied 65km of dry finish (unlubricated) steel
wire rope, with diameters ranging from 5mm-18mm, plus
associated rigging.
The steel wire rope supplied by Lifting Solutions enabled
Stage One, who had been commissioned to supply all of the
aerial engineering and associated automation for the
opening and closing ceremonies, to overcome one of its
greatest technical challenges.
David Nixon, of Lifting Solutions, who worked on the order
for several months, said: “This is without doubt our biggest
ever single order of wire rope, and we’re over the moon that
we have been able to supply another major international
games.”
Lifting Solutions had previously been involved in the opening
and closing ceremonies for the Athens 2004 Olympic
Games, again as the main supplier of lifting equipment, and
also assisted Stage One with specialist provision of lifting
equipment for both the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth
Games and the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics. The company
also created a supporting structure of steel wire rope to hold
up what is believed to be Europe’s largest ever banner, for
the IOC London 2012 Evaluation Committee visit to London
last February.
Lifting Solutions – UK
Fax: +44 1709 899 011
Email:
Website:
Lifting Solutions provided steel wire rope for the opening ceremony at the
Doha Games
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Group’s increase in orders and sales
The SMS group – comprising companies in metallurgical
plant and rolling mill technology, tube, long product and
forging technology as well as plastics technology –
significantly increased its order intake in 2006 to €3,235
million and its sales to €2,826 million. The company has a
total of 8,999 employees globally.
SMS Group – Germany
Fax: +49 211 881 4386 Email:
Website: