Eric Ghesquière, Verlinde's Maintenance Manager, has proudly borne the flag of his company every year since 2008, in AutoCross competitions. AutoCross is a sport in which any type of imaginable car can take part, even production vehicles. At the end of qualification periods that take place under the aegis of regional membership committees, a final national competition is held pitting the best against each other in a location chosen by the regional committees. Roanne was the venue for The French AutoCross Championship from 8 to 10 September 2017. Eric Ghesquière was ranked 6th out of 120 participants and his wins included an N3 class podium, in the 1,600-2,000 cm³ saloon car category.

The Cherifian Office for Phosphates enjoys a privileged position in the industrial history of Morocco.

Hydro-Aménagement is a state owned Algerian company set up 37 years ago and whose development is driven by successfully delivered projects, innovation and growth. The company, deployed throughout Algeria's landmass, is specialized in the construction of dams, the conveyance of water and the purification of waste water. It has played a significant role in the continuous supply of drinking water to Greater Algiers.

INDUCTOTHERM EQUIPMENT BELGIUM, a member of the international Inductotherm group since1985, is specialized in the design, manufacture and commissioning of induction heating equipment for use in the steel industry. Located at Herstal in the Wallonia province of Liège, Inductotherm with its workforce of more than 100 achieves almost all of its annual turnover of €40m in exports with customers in China, India, USA, Korea, Japan and elsewhere. The company delivers between 20 and 30 metal induction heating installations annually. INDUCTOTHERM is the world’s leader in this sector.

When a leading UK injection-moulding shop was looking to expand its operational capabilities, the installation of a 12.5-tonne capacity Verlinde Eurobloc VT3 low-headroom electric wire-rope hoist served to boost lifting capacity in line with the company’s developing requirements. The hoist is part of an overhead beam-crane system designed, manufactured and installed by Verlinde’s UK distributor, Pelloby.

To complement our top-ranking hoists mounted on overhead cranes to raise and shift any loads from 63 kg to 250 t in three directions, the steel wire manual and electric winches are intended for other lifting and pulling operations. Indeed, for some applications, as load travel is necessary in one direction only, winches fully meet requirements. In the VERLINDE product catalogue it should be noted that even if three wide complementary groups of winches enable the handling of loads from 150 kg to 10 tonnes, the drum cable winding method is the same, whatever the model. Bolted to the floor, wall or ceiling or even mounted on a jib crane, the winch fully carries out its job of moving the load.

A bespoke turntable crane system installed at the Hereford, UK foundry of world leading superalloy manufacturer, Special Metals Wiggin Ltd (SMWL), features a pair of EUROBLOC VT3 series electric wire rope hoist manufactured by VERLINDE. Sitting either side of the crab unit, the hoists support loads up to a combined total of 16 tonnes. The bespoke crane system was designed and implemented by Pelloby, which has been working as a UK distributor of VERLINDE products for several decades.

For their ceiling grid equipment, AED’s audiovisual studios were recently equipped with 100 VERLINDE STAGEMAKER SR10 motors to simplify assembly and disassembly operations for shows.

A selection of VERLINDE EUROBLOC electric wire rope hoists and EUROCHAIN power travel electric chain hoists have been installed in conjunction with a series of PELLOBY cranes as part of a reconstruction process at a busy warehouse that was severely damaged by a fire.

PARKER HANNIFIN with its global turnover of €11.5bn is a world leader in movement and control technologies. The company designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of hydraulic, pneumatic and electromechanical components. The Muzillac factory in Brittany employing 130, located 25 km from Vannes, is a plastics injection specialist for products of the FSCE division and for the automatic assembly of instant fittings The factory is ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO TS certified and the injection mould maintenance workshop very recently installed three EUROPONT overhead cranes on each one of which is fitted two VERLINDE hoists.