Industrial Rope in the News

Strong Partners Team Up to Set the Standard for Safety and Performance in Rigging and Lifting: Industrial Wire Rope and Kito Crosby Products

In the world of rigging, lifting, and material handling, equipment failure is not an option. Whether you’re securing a critical lift, assembling structural steel, or managing daily operations in a demanding industrial environment, the reliability of your hardware directly affects safety, productivity, and compliance. That’s why Industrial Wire Rope puts so much trust in Crosby, [...]

April 22nd, 2026|Rigging Supplies, Safety First|Comments Off on Strong Partners Team Up to Set the Standard for Safety and Performance in Rigging and Lifting: Industrial Wire Rope and Kito Crosby Products
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In 2026 – and EVERY Year, It’s Safety First

Why Rigorous Practices Matter in the Industrial Wire Rope Industry In the industrial wire rope industry, safety isn’t just a compliance requirement — it’s the backbone of every lift, every project, and every worker who steps onto a job site. Without rigorous attention to safety, wire rope failures can be sudden, unpredictable, and catastrophic. This [...]

February 2nd, 2026|Safety First|Comments Off on In 2026 – and EVERY Year, It’s Safety First
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Industrial Wire Rope Now Offers Green-Pin® Shackles and Hooks

We come to work each day at Industrial Wire Rope with passion and commitment to providing our customers with the best quality in products, service and overall solutions for their lifting and rigging needs. Products we offer are industry leaders with well-known names such as Crosby, Petzl and Columbus McKinnon to name just a few. [...]

September 11th, 2025|Rigging Supplies|Comments Off on Industrial Wire Rope Now Offers Green-Pin® Shackles and Hooks
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Wire Rope: Behind the Lights of the Brooklyn Bridge

If you’ve been to New York City recently, or live there, you may notice how the Brooklyn Bridge seems to have a new glow to it. A preservation effort spanning four years focused on restoring the Brooklyn Bridge, both in aesthetics and in safety, was recently completed. Over decades the limestone, granite, bricks, steel, and [...]

March 11th, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Wire Rope: Behind the Lights of the Brooklyn Bridge
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A Gargantuan Project: Lifting 50,000 Tons of Debris

Among images that cannot be unseen is the collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore on March 26 this year, when it was struck by the disabled cargo ship Dali. Opened in March 1977, the bridge was three days shy of its 47th anniversary when it collapsed. With a continuous through truss design, [...]

November 1st, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on A Gargantuan Project: Lifting 50,000 Tons of Debris
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Cranes and Industrial Wire Rope: Rebuilding Notre Dame

The latest post by our sister company, American Scaffolding, put a spotlight on the reconstruction of the Notre Dame Cathedral and the intensive use of scaffolding during this ongoing project. While photos showed the Cathedral almost completely encased in scaffolding at times, it was impossible for us to overlook the presence of cranes and industrial [...]

May 23rd, 2024|Industrial Rope, Rigging Shack, Scaffolding|Comments Off on Cranes and Industrial Wire Rope: Rebuilding Notre Dame
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Industrial Wire Rope Scores Soccer Stadium Construction – What a Feat!

A lot of weightlifting goes on behind the scenes of major sporting venues, and it’s not just the athletes hoisting the weights. For fans and athletes alike, it’s hard to beat the thrill of the energy inside the stadium. It’s a force that binds team spirit and motivates competitive peak performance. The stadiums set the [...]

December 8th, 2022|Rigging Shack|Comments Off on Industrial Wire Rope Scores Soccer Stadium Construction – What a Feat!
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Hoisting: How to Know When it’s a Job for a Hurricane

Never under-estimate the power of a Hurricane. Of course, that’s obvious in nature, but here we are talking about hoisting and the industry-leading hoists from Columbus McKinnon. Unlike those greatest of storms we see in nature, however, the Columbus McKinnon Hurricane 360⁰ Mini is the smallest hand chain hoist on the market. Columbus McKinnon, like [...]

March 16th, 2022|Rigging Shack, Rigging Supplies|Comments Off on Hoisting: How to Know When it’s a Job for a Hurricane
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Time to talk Shackles

Any time of year, the mention of shackles can transport me to the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, with the image of Jacob Marley shaking his chains and shackles as he warns Scrooge to change his ways. This confession is further embarrassing as it’s always the Muppet version of Marley, making the night terror [...]

August 18th, 2021|Rigging Shack, Rigging Supplies, Safety First|Comments Off on Time to talk Shackles
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Choosing Chain Binders? Define The Variables

If you’ve been in the business of transporting heavy cargo for any length of time, you likely know that a chain binder, also referred to as a load binder, is a tool used to anchor large cargo loads for transport. As a device that applies tension to the chains that tie-down cargo, chain binders play [...]

January 27th, 2020|Rigging Shack|Comments Off on Choosing Chain Binders? Define The Variables
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