Staffordshire, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/28/2010 -- Despite the slowdown in global economy, many nations around the world today continue to embark on sustained pursuit of medium and long-range goals to become part of the newly industrialized countries.

Achieving a newly industrialized status could bring a country to a growth level where the rate of economic development reflects strong performance of its industrial and manufacturing sectors.

But one unnoticed factor that drives industrial progress has been the availability of machines such as http://www.cranehandling.com lifting equipment like cranes that afford the unhampered movement of heavy equipment for construction and transportation.

“Lifting equipment such as cranes have become indispensable component in today’s industrialization quest,” says Bill Anderson, a retired civil engineer who now serves as a consultant to several construction firms.

Anderson said these equipment made life easier for tasks requiring great might in moving objects especially in the field of construction, transportation and logistics, as well as manufacturing.

Though cranes are not relatively new since they are already used, in their simplest form, as early as the Ancient Greeks, today’s cranes have become more sophisticated including the remote controlled ones that allows precision. This machine operates behind the mechanical principles of greater lifting capacity and stability.

There are currently several types of cranes with specific usage. Generally though, they can be classified as either mobile or fixed. Mobile cranes consist of the truck-mounted, sidelift, rough terrain, all terrain, crawler, railroad, floating, and aerial cranes. While fixed cranes include the tower, self-erecting, telescopic, hammerhead, level luffing, gantry, overhead, deck, jib, bulk-handling, loader and stacker cranes.

One company that offers a wide range of lifting equipment, CraneHandling.com, has made available via online, information on various types and models of cranes and lifting equipment.

Crane Handling also provides durable and quality lifting equipment such as overhead cranes and related structures like lightweight crane systems, swing jib cranes, lifting beams, and other common lifting gears and equipment.

The company is an approved supplier for at least 10 other leading manufacturers of lifting gears and its products and services are fully compliant with known global certification standards such as Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) and the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER).