GALLERY: Crane Power in Africa

Pineville, N.C.-based crane manufacturer Linden Comansa supplied three tower cranes -- two 21LC750 with maximum load capacity of 48 tonnes and a 21LC400, with maximum capacity of 18 tonnes -- to the Cambambe hydroelectric power station in the Kwanza River.
June 18, 2015

Pineville, N.C.-based crane manufacturer Linden Comansa supplied three tower cranes -- two 21LC750 with maximum load capacity of 48 tonnes and a 21LC400, with maximum capacity of 18 tonnes -- to the Cambambe hydroelectric power station in the Kwanza River. The units were leased by Ibergru, the exclusive distributor of Linden Comansa cranes in Angola. The dam, southeast of Luanda, capital of Angola, supplies power to Luanda and six other cities, benefiting a population of about 8 million people. 

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Michael Roth

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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.

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