The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch non-profit developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, and Konecranes, a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, announced today a partnership to design, manufacture, and service The Ocean Cleanup’s Interceptor™, which is designed to extract plastic from rivers before entering the ocean. This is an important step as the […]
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Mar
Mar
Liebherr has developed an interesting alternative for the derrick ballast of crawler cranes, working closely with global crane and heavy haulage contractor Sarens and heavy haulage vehicle manufacturer KAMAG – SPMTs from KAMAG are used as ballast trailers. Ehingen / Donau (Germany), 9 December 2020 – When it bought an LR 11000, Sarens came to […]
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Mar
Mar
Buying used cranes requires a good deal of trust. Since it was founded, Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH has delivered more than 10,000 used cranes to customers throughout the world. The market leader for mobile cranes is in fact also the largest used crane dealer in the world. Crane and heavy haulage contractor Força Diseño & Ingenieria […]
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Mar
Mar
Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH celebrates the delivery of its 40,000th mobile crane. An LRT 1100-2.1 rough terrain crane was officially handed over to Polish energy company PGE GiEK on 10 November – in virtual form due to the coronavirus pandemic. Liebherr first opened its plant for mobile cranes in Ehingen in 1969 and supplied its 20,000th […]
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Mar
Mar
Innovations have been the driving force at Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH from the very beginning. The year 2020 is no exception. Product developments are in full swing. Today three new machines from the fields deep foundation, material handling and lifting could be unveiled in our online presentation. What was striking about it: all models gleam in […]
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Mar
Mar
A Liebherr MK 88 Plus mobile construction crane from Dutch crane hire company Boekestijn was in operation for three months in Rotterdam for the construction of a new plant for recycling asphalt material. Noteworthy: the flexible crane operated continuously in site power mode on the construction site in the Dutch port metropolis. “Our MK mobile construction […]
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LTM 1050-3.1 hoists a grand piano into a forest clearing for its “Muse”
04
Mar
Mar
ESB Kranverleih Transport und Hebetechnik GmbH received an order for a very unusual job in spring 2020 – a valuable grand piano had to be hoisted into a cleared section of forest near Erolzheim in southern Germany and set up there to be played. The order was placed by Andreas Reiner, a German photographer and […]
03
Mar
Mar
Constructing FPSO and FLNG modules onshore has allowed EPCs and owners to expedite project schedules and increase cost-effectiveness. By constructing the hull and topsides simultaneously and at greater scale, the time to first production has been reduced. As these components grow, their efficiency rises – but so does the challenge of their integration. The […]
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Mar
Mar
Crane contractor Schuch is modernising its fleet with three new Liebherr mobile cranes. The LTC 1050-3.1 compact crane and two LTM 1070-4.2 mobile cranes have been added to the Schuch Group fleet in Germany. The company is readying itself to face current and future challenges on the market by means of continuous new and replacement […]
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Jan
“What belongs together will grow together” was how Willy Brandt, the former German Chancellor, described the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. Over 30 years later, another example of how the country is still growing together was played out in Berlin. By completing its very first job, the new Liebherr LR 1800-1.0 […]