Heavy Lift & Crane Rental Services Worldwide
Lampson International, LLC
Lampson International has been a worldwide leader in the heavy lift and transport industry for over 80 years. Founded in 1946 by Neil F. Lampson in Kennewick, Washington, the family-owned company grew from a small drayage operation into one of the most innovative and respected providers of heavy lift equipment and full-service rigging in the world, performing work in more than 55 countries with offices in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Lampson operates one of the largest crane rental fleets anywhere, over 350 major pieces of equipment spanning rough terrain and all terrain hydraulic cranes, lattice boom truck cranes, and conventional crawler cranes including Manitowoc 999, 2250, and 18000 models, rented operated-and-maintained or under bare lease. At the top of the fleet sits the legendary Lampson Transi-Lift®, the company's own engineered heavy lift system with models from 350 to 3,000 US tons, backed by in-house rigging engineering, custom rigging gear fabrication, and a full manufacturing and test facility at the Kennewick headquarters.
607 E. Columbia Drive, Kennewick, WA 99336, US
Eight Decades of Lifting What Others Can't
Lampson's expertise spans the projects that define heavy industry: nuclear plants, petrochemical refineries, bridges, stadiums, convention centers, mines, and energy megaprojects like Australia's Snowy 2.0. The company is a single source for heavy lift and transport: conventional crane rentals, rigging engineering that solves complex problems cost-effectively, self-propelled and towable platform trailers, custom heavy lift rigging gear, and the proprietary equipment manufacturing that produced the Transi-Lift®. Decades of experience translate into unprecedented capability, with engineering, fabrication, assembly, remanufacture, and testing all under one roof in Washington State.
Success Story
The Transi-Lift®: Inventing a New Class of Heavy Lift Crane
By the late 1970s, projects needed cranes with larger capacities, higher hook heights, and longer lift radii than conventional mobile cranes could offer, without giving up mobility. Nuclear construction sites in particul...
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Frequently Asked Questions
A patented heavy lift crane system designed and manufactured exclusively by Lampson, combining the lifting capability of stiff-leg derricks and ring-mounted equipment with the mobility of a crawler crane, in models from 350 to 3,000 US tons that can pick and carry, moving forward, backward, and sideways under load.
Over 350 major pieces of equipment: rough terrain and all terrain hydraulic cranes, lattice boom truck cranes, conventional crawler cranes including Manitowoc 999, 2250, and 18000 models, plus towable and self-propelled platform trailers.
Yes. Cranes are rented to the construction industry both operated-and-maintained and under bare lease agreements, with rigging engineering support available for complex lifts.
Worldwide. Headquartered in Kennewick, Washington with offices in the US, Canada, and Australia, Lampson has performed work in more than 55 countries on energy, infrastructure, industrial, and defense projects.
Yes. Lampson designs and builds custom heavy lift rigging gear for its own use and for sale, with full fabrication, assembly, remanufacture, finishing, and test facilities at its headquarters.
Energy including nuclear and petrochemical, infrastructure and bridges, mining, defense, and large commercial construction, anywhere extreme capacity lifting and transport is required.
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