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Innovative lifting, handling, and weighing solutions for the Wind Energy & Industrial markets

Richardson, Texas, USA -- The Crosby Group, a global leader in lifting, rigging, and load securement hardware, today announced that it has acquired Airpes Sistemas Integrales de Manutencion Y Pesaje S.L. (“Airpes”).

Airpes, based in Barcelona, Spain, is the leader in developing and manufacturing innovative lifting, handling, and weighing solutions for customers in the wind energy and industrial markets.  Airpes’ highly engineered solutions, such as their yoke blade clamp, ensure safe and efficient wind turbine installation and maintenance.

Airpes will be part of The Crosby Group’s rapidly expanding Technology Solutions portfolio, along with Crosby BlokCam, Crosby Straightpoint, and our investment in Verton.  This portfolio combines robust technology and the highest quality lifting & rigging hardware to deliver solutions that improve safety and productivity for customers in every industry around the world.

Robert Desel, CEO of The Crosby Group, said: “We are thrilled to expand our Technology Solutions’ product portfolio with the acquisition of Airpes. Airpes is a leading innovator in the lifting industry with deep domain expertise in the wind energy and industrial markets, and shares our core values of Safety, Reliability, and Innovation. This acquisition expands The Crosby Group’s industry leading role and commitment to supporting safe and efficient lifting, rigging, and securement for the renewables market. We are thrilled to welcome the Airpes team members to The Crosby Group and will be extending our employee Ownership Plan to all Airpes employees.”

Josep Compte, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Airpes added: “This is the next exciting stage of our journey. Leveraging The Crosby Group’s global footprint, technical field support and training team and world-class hardware, together we will bring Airpes’ solutions to more sites and make the lifting and renewables industries safer and more efficient.”  

Now part of The Crosby Group, Airpes will go to market under the Crosby Airpes brand.

About The Crosby Group

The Crosby Group is a global leader in the innovation, manufacturing and distribution of products and services used to make lifting and load securement safer and more efficient, with premier brands such as Crosby, Gunnebo Industries, Crosby Straightpoint, Crosby BlokCam, Acco, McKissick, Crosby Feubo, Trawlex, Lebus, and CrosbyIP.

With global engineering, manufacturing, distribution and operations, the company provides a broad range of products and solutions for the most demanding applications with uncompromising quality that exceed industry standards.

www.thecrosbygroup.com

About Airpes
Airpes designs and manufactures innovative lifting, handling and weighing solutions. All products meet the most stringent European and US quality standards. Airpes is established as a global lifting equipment supplier with a presence in Europe, China and the United States.

www.airpes.com

MaintMaster, a leader in Maintenance Management Systems, today announced the appointment of Leif Bohlin as new CEO.  

"We are delighted to have been able to add such an experienced leader as Leif to one of our portfolio companies. He will be a strong asset to the company and their exciting journey ahead," said Peter Larsson, Chairman of the Board and Managing Partner at Monterro.

Bohlin joins MaintMaster with extensive experience from starting, building and managing SaaS companies and was most recently CEO at Unifaun, a fast-growing SaaS company within Transport Management Systems (TMS). Prior to this, he held leading positions in several global companies.

"What excites me about MaintMaster is the strong company culture, and employees with a commitment to build a strong product and a great experience for their customers," said MaintMaster's new CEO, Leif Bohlin. "MaintMaster has an incredible journey in front of them, and I believe my experiences in similar journeys will be a benefit for the company."

Bohlin takes over the position from founder Peter Barkland. Peter has always been involved in product development, and with Leif onboard it will give him the opportunity to focus entirely on building the product.

"I look forward to focusing on being Product Manager and, of course, being a part of the MaintMaster journey we're on together. I'm confident that Leif is the right person to help us grow the company even more, and it gives us an even better position for the future of MaintMaster", said Peter Barkland.

MaintMaster has had steady growth over the last years and sees an increasing demand for its product. MaintMaster recently opened an office in the UK and now have three offices: Headquarters in Linköping (Sweden), an office in Hamburg (Germany), as well as the newly opened office in London (UK).

www.maintmaster.com.

www.monterro.com

- CrateOM turns device data into actionable insights -

 - Tracks equipment performance, reduces downtime and minimizes resource and cost waste -

  SAN FRANCISCO, USA. NOVEMBER 23 2021 - Crate.io, the enterprise data management company enabling data insights at scale, today announced the launch of CrateOM, a smart solution that transforms process data into actionable insights. CrateOM runs in the cloud, at the edge or in a hybrid environment. By enabling digital transformation through real-time insights and in-app communications, CrateOM helps production companies improve decision making and cross-functional collaboration.  

Running on CrateDB, an enterprise-grade open-source database optimized for large data volumes, CrateOM supports the complexity of manufacturing and enables companies to digitalize processes and streamline operations. Designed to improve process efficiency, CrateOM reduces unplanned downtime, increases employee effectiveness, optimizes resource utilization and minimizes waste.

Specialist high voltage engineering and contracting firm Smith Brothers, has been appointed to provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) expertise to a portfolio of projects – designed to support the transition towards more sustainable power generation.

The £78m programme – a joint venture between LMPH and Victory Hill – represents a commitment to fund innovative net zero flexible power generation projects in the UK.

Under the scope of works, Smith Brothers will provide EPC support in relation to the pair of planned combined heat and power plants, which will bring together high-efficiency, gas-fired engine technology with a carbon capture and re-use system – to provide a clean, net-zero, flexible, and dependable electricity solution for the UK.

Can enclosures be machined and fitted out even faster? How the AX compact enclosure from Rittal speeds things up.

Meurer-etechnik is looking to the new AX compact enclosure from Rittal to improve its production efficiency. How does the new model differ from its prede- cessor, the AE? A day spent with enclosure production staff reveals all.

A new working day dawns at Murer-etechnik in Germany’s Westerwald region. In the incoming goods section, a young man wearing a black T-shirt with the company logo on the front and the sleeve is taking delivery of a pallet with eight AX compact enclosures from Rittal. Production Manager Steven Lauer is al- ready waiting for their arrival. In just a week’s time, the UL-compliant enclosures are set to be delivered to a special-purpose machinery manufacturer based in the Cologne area. Lauer, can’t wait to see how the new AX enclosures differ from the pre- decessor model, the AE.

• BCN3D responds to the industry’s growing demand to produce stainless steel parts, mainly within the pharmaceutical, food, automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing sectors.

• The new Pack enables metal 3D printing to compete directly with current technologies MIM and CNC, offering similar mechanical properties and far more design freedom.

• The BCN3D Metal Pack has been developed with Ultrafuse® Metal Filaments from Forward AM, the brand of BASF 3D Printing Solutions, to be presented at Formnext 2021 in Frankfurt.

  BCN3D, a leading 3D printing solutions manufacturer, has launched its Metal Pack - containing Ultrafuse® Metal Filaments from Forward AM - for its line of Epsilon Series 3D printers.

UK based abrasives specialist, Norton, is promoting the importance of training by offering free online live webinars to support metal fabricators after the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 It’s no secret that since the pandemic began in March 2020, ever-changing restrictions and limited face-to-face time quickly began to take its toll on workshops and construction sites across the UK, including on all-important training.

 As the industry has had to adapt to remote working and learning, Norton has begun offering a series of webinars covering a variety of topics – from weld removal to composite polishing.

 The online sessions have been designed to be concise, informative and interactive, demonstrating just why Norton is one of the UK’s leading abrasives manufacturers and explaining how to make the most out of the brand’s many unique product features.

 Taking place on Microsoft Teams, the webinars will be hosted by European Application Engineer, Paul Gray, who will be accompanied by a relevant Product Manager for each webinar.