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LiftWerx LiftWerx offers major component replacements in wind turbines using creative and innovative crane-less lifting solutions.

05/26/2026

We're proud and delighted to announce the launch of our 12th large corrective team! Equipped with a RotorHook™ crane system, earlier this week, our newest team lowered its first wind turbine rotor at a wind farm in Canada.

The team, which is comprised of highly-trained and experienced industry professionals, is presently exchanging all three pitch bearings on this tower. Very shortly, the rotor will be safely installed back on the nacelle.

We'd like to thank our employees, suppliers, and our customer for another successful deployment!

We don't often get the opportunity to work in the US state of Arizona, but this week, our Team 695 has the privilege of ...
05/25/2026

We don't often get the opportunity to work in the US state of Arizona, but this week, our Team 695 has the privilege of performing a large corrective wind turbine repair in the Grand Canyon State.

Arizona has a remarkably dramatic and varied landscape. Here, you can find hot deserts, snowy mountains, abandoned mines, lush cactus-speckled valleys, winding rivers, exciting cities, and plenty of modern wind turbines.

At LiftWerx, we're highly-differentiated in how we perform our services. And not surprisingly, we're also very differen...
05/24/2026

At LiftWerx, we're highly-differentiated in how we perform our services. And not surprisingly, we're also very different in the ways that we compensate our employees. Rather than offering a simple hourly wage for hours worked, we offer an impressive compensation package to our field technicians as follows:

💡 Best travel rotation in the North American industry, with three weeks on, one week off.
💡 Travel days are paid work days, and do not erode home time.
💡 Full pay during PTO at home.
💡 Two weeks off over the Christmas / New Year's holiday, with full pay.
💡 Salaried pay with a steady paycheck, which provides full financial stability for the technician and family.
💡 100% pay during weather delays.
💡 Bonus amounts for referring new employees to the company.
💡 Fantastic medical & pension (401k or RRSP) benefits.
💡 Bonus amounts for achieving team productivity & safety targets.
💡 Bonus amounts for personal performance.
💡 Bonus amounts for milestones of years worked, awarded at 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year milestones.
💡 Progression policy which highly favours internal promotions over hiring external candidates into management positions.
💡 Annual pay increases for inflation / escalation.
💡 Structured pay increases for achieving training & certification milestones.
💡 Free-issue PPE and company swag.
💡 Bonus awards for contributing high-impact safety observations, which help to make our company safer.
💡 And the best part? After two years of employment, all employees are offered investment units in the company, regardless of their position. These investment units grow in value as the value of the company grows.

In North America, no other company offers such a strong overall compensation package, which is why so many field technicians knock on our door, again and again.

We strongly believe that as a differentiator, our success is driven by the quality of our people, not by our equipment. That's why we strive to offer the best overall compensation package in the industry.

We'd like to introduce LiftWerx's Hero of the Month, Keith Fredericksen. Keith is presently working at one of LiftWerx'...
05/23/2026

We'd like to introduce LiftWerx's Hero of the Month, Keith Fredericksen. Keith is presently working at one of LiftWerx's large corrective projects in the midwest USA.

While off duty, Keith was approached by his next-door neighbour, who had been cleaning his firearm and suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his upper leg. After the neighbour collapsed on Keith's front lawn, he immediately responded by providing emergency medical aid while his wife called 911.

Having been trained in first aid, Keith applied a tourniquet, wrapped the gunshot wound, and worked to stabilize him, while waiting for emergency responders to arrive. Despite the severity of the situation, Keith remained calm under pressure and stayed with him until EMS and law enforcement took over.

According to the local police chief, without Keith's quick thinking and skills, the man would not be alive today.

This week, Keith was recognized by the city in recognition of his outstanding courage, compassion, and quick action. He was presented with this award for performing emergency life-saving skills and providing critical assistance, demonstrating exceptional character and service to the community.

Congratulations, Keith! We are proud of you.

At LiftWerx, we've built our entire business by doing things differently from everybody else in the wind energy industry...
05/18/2026

At LiftWerx, we've built our entire business by doing things differently from everybody else in the wind energy industry.

On every project, we bring our customer's valuable assets back online using people, processes, and equipment that improve safety performance, simplify logistics, lower mobilization costs, and reduce carbon footprint.

05/02/2026

LiftWerx is proud and delighted to announce the launch and deployment of our latest new innovation: our first Rotor Roller device. This impressive below-the-hook lifting tool, which connects between a crane hook and a wind turbine rotor, enables the rotor to be safely tripped between a horizontal and vertical position, without the use of a tailing crane.

Field testing was completed this week on a GE2.8MW wind turbine in the midwest USA, on a 127-meter rotor. Yes, you'll see one of our Liebherr cranes in the foreground. This is a tailing crane, and it remained on standby during this operation, in case any trouble-shooting might be required with the new tool, which is the first of its kind. But we're happy to declare that the Rotor Roller worked perfectly, and going forward, this large corrective team will no longer require this tailing crane for this purpose.

At LiftWerx, we perform many different types of complex wind turbine repairs, including blade replacements and pitch bearing exchanges. Realistically, we will always have a need for our Liebherr cranes in our organization, but for this type of main bearing exchange, the Rotor Roller is a far more efficient solution. The new tool fits our company's strategy in many different ways:

💡 It reduces the footprint of the repair on the ground
💡 It significantly lowers the overall capital expediture for the team's equipment base
💡 The repair becomes a truly "crane-less" operation, with no traditional cranes required whatsoever
💡 The number of trucks required for the repair is reduced by 30%
💡 The overall repair can be performed with a smaller and more efficient team
💡 As manbasket work is also eliminated, work can be performed in higher wind speeds
💡 As the Rotor Roller is powered by electric batteries rather than diesel, the overall carbon footprint of the repair operation is reduced by nearly 50%.
💡 Overall, it's a fabulous example of a highly-effective LEAN initiative, which will help to make our company stronger, more efficient, and more competitive in the market.

The development has been a great team effort, and we'd like to shout out to our technicians, engineers, suppliers, and our client who did their part to support this new innovation.

What are your thoughts on this new device? Please add your comments below. 👎

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We endeavor to have the best-looking equipment in the wind energy industry. We brand our large equipment such as cranes...
04/30/2026

We endeavor to have the best-looking equipment in the wind energy industry. We brand our large equipment such as cranes and trucks, but we also take the time to carefullly brand our forklifts, skid-steers, shipping containers, and even our tools and rigging equipment.

Why do we go to the painstaking effort to paint and brand small tools and auxiliary equipment?

It's because it's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. And we believe that if we do the little things right, we will always get the big things right.

Working smarter can be uncomfortable. To improve, we need to question things that have been “normal.” After all, what ...
04/29/2026

Working smarter can be uncomfortable. To improve, we need to question things that have been “normal.” After all, what is "normal" never stays forever. The status quo continually shifts over time, sometimes slowly, and sometimes very quickly.

Working smarter requires letting go of habits we’ve built over years. And it means admitting that things that made us successful in the past might not make sense anymore.

At LiftWerx, we've created our business based on this philosophy, and we continue to live by this philosophy every day. Our endless pursuit of getting better makes us stronger, and creates increasing value for our customers.

At LiftWerx, we always open our doors to bright young minds. We'd like to introduce Cera, Aric, Nora, Gurman, Marissa, ...
04/27/2026

At LiftWerx, we always open our doors to bright young minds. We'd like to introduce Cera, Aric, Nora, Gurman, Marissa, Imogen, Cameron, Isaac, Sonny, and Amira, most of whom are finishing internships with this LiftWerx this week. Nora, Marissa, Sonny, and Cam have already completed previous internships with LiftWerx, and we are honoured that they decided to come back to work with us for a second time.

Although we hire students from many colleges and universities across the USA and Canada, most of our interns are hired from the University of Waterloo, which offers an impressive co-op program, placing countless thousounds of students each year into good-paying jobs across a wide variety of industries. These jobs are offered around the globe. Thousands of employers such as LiftWerx rely on Waterloo's co-op program as a trusted source of young talent.

Congratulations to Andrew Collins! Yesterday, Andrew completed the Rock and Roll Half-Marathon in Nashville, Tennessee....
04/26/2026

Congratulations to Andrew Collins! Yesterday, Andrew completed the Rock and Roll Half-Marathon in Nashville, Tennessee.

If life, we don't always get what we deserve. We get what we focus on. Andrew worked diligently to prepare for this race, focusing on health, fitness, and hard work, sometimes resulting in pain and setbacks along the way. But as a result of his strong focus and perseverence, he accomplished his goal.

Let's tip our hats to Andrew for achieving this milestone!

Kudos to Team 695, who just finshed this pitch bearing exchange project at a wind farm in the midwest US. After being p...
04/23/2026

Kudos to Team 695, who just finshed this pitch bearing exchange project at a wind farm in the midwest US. After being plagued with high winds for several days, which prevented the rotor from being safely hoisted, the team took advantage of a rare occurrence of calm weather in the middle of the night. Motivated to take full advantage of the good weather, the rotor was hoisted, all cranes were dismantled, and the turbine was returned to service on the following day. Thanks for a great wrap-up, guys!

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