Year: 2017

New guidance on mobile cranes

FEM has released a new Guidance Document “FEM 5.024: Guideline – Safe Use of High Performance  Fibre Ropes in Mobile Crane Applications“. The document is only available in English. It is available at the following link. You can see the whole list of FEM Technical Guidance Documents (for all FEM Product Categories, including mobile cranes… Read more »

2016 WAS A GOOD YEAR FOR THE INTRALOGISTIC SYSTEMS INDUSTRY

The FEM Intralogistic Systems Product Group has published its 2016 Factsheet. In line with the four previous years, 2016 was a good year for the intralogistic systems industry as a whole. Compared to 2015, the distribution of order intake in the different sectors remained substantially the same. However, the “Retail, Wholesale, Mail-order” sector increased: it… Read more »

Joint paper on electronic displays (Ecodesign)

FEM co-signed a position with AmCham EU, CECED, COCIR, DIGITALEUROPE, EGMF, EHI, EPEE, and TIE to reiterate its strong reservations to the proposed Lot 5 draft Ecodesign regulation covering electronic displays and outline procedural as well as substantive concerns shared by many European industries. In its conclusion, the joint paper recommends that all integrated displays… Read more »

Joint paper on electronic displays (Ecodesign)

One EU system for mobile machines on public roads

Ahead of a European Commission’s workshop on road circulation of mobile machinery, FEM and other mobile machinery industry sectors publish a joint press release in support of their proposals for a single European system. The European Commission has a unique chance to close a long-standing and costly gap in the EU’s Internal Market by creating… Read more »

One EU system for mobile machines on public roads