GIS 2017 WILL BE THE BIGGEST EUROPEAN EVENT OF THE YEAR DEDICATED TO THE LIFTING, INDUSTRIAL & PORT HANDLING AND SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES. A few months after the start of promotional and commercial activities, the number of confirmed exhibitors at the 6th edition of GIS-Giornate Italiane del Sollevamento e dei Trasporti Eccezionali has already significantly […]
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Companies, Crane Business, New cranes
Konecranes Gottwald QuaymateTM M50 Mobile Harbor Crane becoming popular with terminal operators in Korea
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The Konecranes Gottwald QuaymateTM M50 Mobile Harbor Crane is becoming a favorite of Korean terminal operators. Two of these diesel-electric machines were shipped to Korea in 2016, one to Ulsan and one to Incheon, and now a new Korean customer in Incheon has ordered a Quaymate M50 mobile harbor crane. From April 2017, the crane […]
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ALE has completed the whole turnkey solution to install the first-ever wind turbine in Saudi Arabia. Starting in January, ALE was contracted for the transportation, erection and installation of one 2.75-120 wind turbine at a wind farm in Huraymila, around 80km north of Riyadh. ALE received the wind turbine components from a vessel at the […]
Crane Business, General, New cranes
Sönke Jordt expands fleet with a Liebherr LTM 1250-5.1 mobile crane
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) February 2017 – Sönke Jordt GmbH & Co. KG based in Ratekau in Schleswig-Holstein took delivery of a new Liebherr LTM 1250-5.1 mobile crane at the manufacturing plant in Ehingen at the beginning of February. The 5-axle 250-tonne mobile crane represents an upwards expansion in the company’s fleet. Liebherr’s VarioBase® variable […]
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The Piacenza-based company inaugurates 2017 by introducing a new battery operated electric pick & carry crane that can lift and transport up to 58 tons. In 2017 JMG Cranes introduces a new crane to the market, the MC580: it is a battery operated electric pick & carry crane that can lift weights of up to […]
Jobsite reports
Liebherr LTR 1220 telescopic crawler crane builds water basins for innovative energy storage system
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) February 2017 – For several months the Max Bögl Group has been working on a smart concept to generate and store natural electricity in the north-east of Baden-Württemberg. A modern pump accumulator power plant is being built near Schwäbisch Hall along with four wind turbines with a total height of up […]
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Our UK sales and service partner, AGD Equipment, delivered a SENNEBOGEN 655 dragline excavator in the middle of 2016 to the customer, Thomas Armstrong Aggregates Ltd. Fitted with a 27 m boom and two powerful 160 kN freefall winches, the duty cycle crane digs tons of gravel every day for the manufacture of construction materials. […]
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With this new model, with maximum load capacity of 64 tonnes, Linden Comansa boosts its range of products and responds to the growing demand for high-tonnage luffers. The use of high-tonnage, prefabricated components and extremely large steel beams in construction is a growing trend, based on the fact that it reduces project-completion times. In construction […]
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) January 2017 – One year after the removal and refurbishment of a submersible sluice gate at the Aggertal dam, 50 kilometres to the east of Cologne, the sluice gate required to control the water level was reinstalled underwater. The job was carried out by a Liebherr LTM 1090-4.1 mobile crane operated […]
Companies, Crane Business
Indian crane contractor JNK Lifters takes delivery of Liebherr LTM 1250-5.1 mobile crane at the Bauma Conexpo India
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) February 2017 – Crane rental company JNK Lifters based in Mumbai took delivery of a new LTM 1250-5.1 mobile crane at the Liebherr stand at the Bauma Conexpo India construction machinery trade show. The high lifting capacity of the 5-axle machine and its VarioBase® variable support base with the main criteria […]