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When things happen at Crane Tech we want you to know. This page includes events, committee work, appointments, and milestones. We hope you can learn more about Crane Tech's greatest asset, our great staff. Click any picture to learn more about the topic.


January 2011 Crane Tech conducts training at Smithsonian Institute. Click here to learn more.
December 2010 Crane Tech held a Ribbon Cutting ceremony for their new training facility with the Greater Riverview Chamber of Commerce. Afterward, all in attendance enjoyed the Open House festivities inside. Thanks to everyone who participated in making their new home a big success!		Click picture to enlarge
2010 Crane Tech achieves NCCCO Platinum sponsorship. Click here to learn more.
August 2010 August 18-20, 2010 Crane Tech hosted the Written Exam Management Committee of the NCCCO at their new office located in Riverview, FL (the greater Tampa Bay area).
January 2010 Crane Tech hosts NCCCO Overhead committee testing of practical examination on overhead crane. The committee had searched for a location to conduct extensive testing of their practical exam on a bridge operated overhead crane with significant fall. The purpose was to ensure that a practical exam performed on this type crane was reliable and would provide a fair test for candidates.
December 2009 Tony Dotto, Crane Tech's Vice President of Sales, completes a one year membership on the NCCCO Articulating Crane Task Force. In June 2010 Tony was appointed to the Articulating Crane Committee.
January 2009 Crane Tech and Local 825 co-host winter NCCCO's written exam management committee meeting in Little Harbor. Hosting this meeting has become an annual event. Members enjoy time away from the northern cold in the Tampa Bay area.
March 2008 Crane Tech donates Course Builder software to NCCCO. "NCCCO had been looking to update the process whereby its Written Exam Management Committee develops and reviews test items,...the item banking system Crane Tech had developed for its internal use was ideal for NCCCO’s needs.”		Crane Tech Donates Test Development/Analysis Software to CCO. Article from NCCCO web site
September 2007 American Cranes & Transport magazine includes article on Crane Tech's certification of all staff to CCO Overhead Crane program.		CCO Overhead Program Gathers Pace Article reprinted with permission of ACT.
July 2007 Crane Tech certifies instructors to NCCCO Overhead Crane Practical Examiner status. Crane Tech instructors attended an annual company meeting followed by training in preparation of their NCCCO Overhead Crane written test and practical exams.		Click picture to learn more
April 2007 Bo Collier elected as full commissioner to the National Commission for Certification of Crane Operators.
March 2007 Bo Collier joins NCCCO Rigging Task Force.
February 2007 Crane Tech and Local 825 host NCCCO WEMC meeting in Tampa, FL.
January 2007 Tony Dotto promoted to Vice President. With nine years of service to Crane Tech and having served as Sales Manager and Manager of Technical Services, Tony takes on an expanded role in the management of Crane Tech.		Tony Dotto (right) confers with Danny Thiemens of the CCO during a Crane Tech practical exam session.
April 2006 Bo Collier elected as Alternate Commissioner and member of Overhead Crane Exam Management Committee for NCCCO.		Click here to learn more
March 2006 Bo Collier is appointed as a member of the Overhead Crane Management Committee of the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators.
January 2006 Crane Tech Co-Hosts NCCCO WEMC meeting		Click Picture to learn more
July 2005 Crane Tech is guest speaker at API Offshore Crane Operation and Safety Conference		Click here to learn more
February 2005 Crane Tech Co-Hosts NCCCO WEMC Meeting in Clearwater Florida. IAI and Crane Tech share costs to bring WEMC members to a sunny Florida meeting location during the winter.		Click Picture to learn more
November 2004 Crane Tech annual company conference ends with golf scramble.		Click Picture to learn more
May 2004 Crane Tech hosts two MMS conferences		Click Picture to learn more
November 2004 Thirty-five MMS Inspectors Attend Safety Workshop		Click Picture to learn more
June 2004 Crane Tech Wraps Up Shell Project		Click Picture to learn more
February 2003 Collier nominated to NCCCO's Mobile Crane Written Examination Management Committee		Click Picture to learn more