In Denmark, we have advanced greatly and are continuously securing new crane lifting contracts within industry and infrastructure. As it has been for many years, our loyal customers in construction and concrete are, of course, always important to keep our wheels turning. Overall, these are exciting times in Denmark with many new employees, and several new cranes. Additionally, we have broken ground and are in the process of building our new head office in Copenhagen.

In Sweden, the project organization has gotten off to a good start in northern Sweden with the expansion of the steel mill in Boden outside Luleå. We have entered into important agreements on both the west and east coasts that involve significant work for our cranes when our customers are to perform maintenance, as well as “shutdowns” or audit-stops in the coming years. Our mobile crane business in infrastructure, construction and industry, also produce great results throughout Sweden. 

In Norway, we are experiencing heavy competition for assignments, and it is crucial that we deliver the expected quality to our customers. Price is of course important, and we must be competitive in this area as well. It is motivating to see that we are signing one contract after another. Particularly gratifying is the progress we are experiencing within large projects in Eastern Norway, as well as record-breaking agreements within industry in Central Norway and Western Norway.

Not the biggest, but the best!

For many years, Nordic Crane has invested heavily in the development of our mobile cranes. To be able to offer our customers even better solutions, in 2023 and 2024, we invested significantly in what we call Heavy Lift. This includes the largest cranes and the most advanced equipment for lifting and transporting large modules and heavy packages. Everything from bridges and installations in hospitals, to modules and equipment for industry or for the oil industry. We now have a considerable number of SPMT axles, we have a handful of large crawler cranes and a formidable team of project managers and engineers with broad knowledge and experience.

Nordic Crane now has over 450 employees who can offer large and small customers complete solutions throughout Scandinavia within mobile cranes, crane trucks, mobile tower cranes, special transport, Heavy Lift and much more. As always, we will work safely and deliver world-class service and quality! 

That’s how crane magic is created!

Have a great summer!

Morten Heli-Hansen
CEO – Nordic Crane

At Nordic Crane we focus strongly on safety every single day of the year. However, one weekend a year we gather to learn from each other and work together with the goal of becoming even better at safety. The participants are safety representatives and leaders from our three countries, and this year roughly 60 people participated. Our goal is for everyone to come home safely, their whole lives. This year’s safety seminar was held the weekend of 5^th-7^th of April at Gardermoen with the working title – We Are Nordic Crane and Safety is Our Responsibility.

Further development of our Safety work
Heine Lien, Safety Manager for Nordic Crane Norway, focused his lecture on the fact that we must always consider the development of safety work. Times are changing and new and stricter demands are constantly placed on us and those who operate in our industry. We can confirm that we are keeping up with the current times and aim to show the way as a leading player in our industry. We will put safety first and everyone at Nordic Crane will come home safely, their whole lives. New customers and new industries also require us to work hard on development, good routines, strong and clear messages and, not least, good, and safe internal communication. Here we lead the way with our own Life Saving Rules and set a standard for how we want to work on safety in our industry. Safety must come first, which these rules secure and signal to all our employees every single day. We are proud of that!

Workplace visits – the employee’s psychosocial working environment
Jens Helbo, Safety Manager / HSEQ-Manager for Nordic Crane Denmark, highlighted our psychosocial working environment and how we can influence it through workplace visits. Workplace visits are important for good and healthy communication between management and all those who perform safe and solid safety work out in the field every single day. Through regular workplace visits, a close and good bond of trust is developed and a clear focus on behavioural change becomes possible. During workplace visits, awareness of safety becomes a part of everyday life, where we together get a common goal of coming home safely, our whole lives.

What can we do to create safe behaviour in the workplace?
Erik Everbrink, Safety Manager / HSEQ Manager for Nordic Crane Sweden, gave a good talk about our behaviour and how it affects safety in our everyday work. He talked about creating good relationships, continue competence development and being good role models to avoid injuries and reduce risk in the workplace. In this way, a good culture is created, and we can put a proper spotlight on safety every single day. We are proud that 99.98% of the time we work injury-free at Nordic Crane.

External thoughts and ideas
We were also fortunate to hear a great lecture by Teddy Broadhurst who has over 50 years of experience with cultural building safety work across the world. His experiences and stories leave deep traces and create useful discussions. We take this with us in our work.

Important to continue the work in our everyday life
The safety seminar this year was educational and up to date. It puts a necessary and proper spotlight on everything we do right in everyday life and the risks we are exposed to every single day. Together we create the culture we need for everyone to come home safe, their whole lives. Together we develop and help each other to maintain concentration and keep the necessary focus in safety work. Together we are strong, together we are Nordic Crane!

Nordic Crane is expanding all over Scandinavia and new projects constantly need our expertise and services. With the start-up of a new department in northern Sweden and several new projects and departments in Western Norway, we are facing exciting times. We always put safety first and it is clear, that Nordic Crane’s safety work is being noticed. We are now nominated for ESTA Awards 2024 in the Safety category with our digital safety manual aptly called: SAFETY.

Demanding jobs
We deliver complex and challenging lifts to the whole of Scandinavia and with that comes great responsibility and a clear focus on safety. In industries such as industry, oil and gas, infrastructure and wind power, the work we perform is demanding and involve risk. This places great demands on us being safety minded and what routines we must adhere to in our everyday work.SAFETY – a digital safety manual
Our digital safety manual SAFETY contains all the processes and safety measures we must adhere to in our everyday life. Detailed and established routines for a variety of situations we may face in our work. If something serious happens, we must have clear routines that are easily accessible digitally on the mobile. The same applies to daily routines in various work processes we carry out, as well as applicable regulations and instructions for all our machines and equipment. Everything complete, in one easily accessible place.

Life-saving rules
SAFETY also contains our own “Life-saving rules” which help us with the conventional and life-saving rules we must follow every single day to prevent something unwanted from happening. These eight rules put a necessary spotlight on how we can avoid danger and help us, our partners, and customers to come home safely, all our lives.

Proud finalists
We at Nordic Crane are proud finalists in the ESTA Awards 2024 and humbled by the recognition. We know that we work hard with HSE every single day and that we always put safety first in our work. However, with an effective and smart tool like SAFETY, we feel even safer at work and can offer safer services to our customers.

32-year-old Vibeke went from being a hairdresser to becoming a crane operator with us at Nordic Crane. She has now completed a truck certificate, a tower crane course, and a mobile crane course, and is well underway with her working day as a crane operator.

Vibeke is a trained skin and body therapist and is a certified hairdresser, but after many wonderful years in the beauty industry, her body reached its limits. She decided it was time for a 180-turn in her professional life, and after thorough research, she finally chose a crane operator. She has not regretted that for a second. Making such a drastic life-change is no easy task, but Vibeke found motivation and strength. 

– I said to myself, “I’m able to do this, and I’m going to do this”. It’s amazing how far you get with being a little stubborn and determined. I like ‘getting my hands dirty,’ and finding a job where I can spend some time outside was important to me. When I decided to find something completely different to work with, I posted on a women’s Facebook group asking what their professions were. I needed some inspiration. One day, someone sent me a private message saying she worked in the construction industry and enjoyed it! I didn’t really need to hear more. I contacted a school that held a machine operator course and started my education – she says eagerly. 

Vibeke joined us at Nordic Crane in December 2023 and feels that she has been warmly welcomed by colleagues at our department in Fredrikstad. 

– I am delighted with the choice, and I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to work for the best company in Norway. My colleagues at Nordic Cane have a lot of high competence and experience. I can learn a lot from that. I look forward to going to work every single day,” she says.

We are very pleased to have Vibeke join the team and hope this can contribute to more girls wanting to pursue a career as a crane operator.