Ehingen / Donau (Germany), 13 June 2018 – Liebherr is set to unveil a new 800-tonne crawler crane to visitors from all over the world at its 2018 customer days – the LR 1800-1.0. Outstanding lifting capacities and low cost transport around the world are the main features of the new large crane. It has […]
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Crane Business, Jobsite reports
The new SENNEBOGEN 624 E taxi duty cycle crane with casing machine proved its worth in France
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Speyser, a family-run company from Bas-Rhin, France, is widely known in eastern France for its expertise in special large-diameter and deep drilling operations. As a loyal partner of SENNEBOGEN, they reaffirmed their confidence in the machine manufacturer by investing in a completely new duty cycle crane concept. One of the first construction sites to use […]
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Leading lifting solutions specialist, GGR Group has received the UK’s first industrial-assembly-crane, the AC500, from manufacturer HEMATEC, based in Germany. The innovative AC500 allows operators to pick and carry loads of up to 500kg and can boom out to an impressive 5.1 metres. It is able to lift to a height of 10.5 metres and its […]
Crane News, New cranes
New Liebherr LTM 1090-4.2 with 60-metre telescopic boom shows what it can do on constricted sites
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) June 2018 – The variable support base for Liebherr mobile cranes, VarioBase® is established in practice is a solution to space problems on sites. The feature developed at the Liebherr Plant in Ehingen allows the flexible use of restricted set-up space. On two exemplary job sites in Denmark and Switzerland it […]
Crane News, General, Safety
CM Labs Releases Industry’s First Simulation-based Crane Signaller Training Solution
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Montreal, QC, June 19, 2018 — CM Labs today announced the release of its new Signaller Training Station, a simulation-based solution that is the only one of its kind in the industry. Designed to work in conjunction with CM Labs’ Vortex® Trainer and Advantage simulators, the Signaller Training Station allows trainers to simultaneously engage multiple […]
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Below-the-hook equipment manufacturer Modulift and Siemens Heat Transfer Technology B.V. combined forces to design a special rig for lifting modules that weighed nearly 200t a piece. Modulift sent two rigs for on- and off-load in Korea and Thailand respectively—a total of 16 no. 34t capacity MOD 34 beams in addition to slings, shackles, tie-plates, and […]
Companies, Crane Business
Raimondi Cranes appoints first official Italian agent overseeing various territories
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June 20, 2018 (Legnano, Milan, Italy) – Raimondi Cranes SpA, established in 1863, has announced the appointment of Italasme Srl to represent the company across four key areas in Italy: Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, and the Aosta Valley. Headed by Davide Lama, Italasme has already commenced commercial activity, and has inaugurated its agency appointment with its […]
Companies, Crane Business, Events, Media
New major investment at Liebherr in Kirchdorf: Ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the new logistics centre for production
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Liebherr-Hydraulikbagger GmbH starts a new investment in the future in Kirchdorf an der Iller, thus strengthening the development of the original location of the overall Liebherr Group. The first construction phase of the logistics centre for production started on 11 June 2018 with an official ground-breaking ceremony. Liebherr will invest a total of around 35 […]
Crane Business, Crane News, Jobsite reports
Linden Comansa and BKL install a modular building on a Berlin rooftop
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German rental and crane specialist BKL supplies a tower crane model 21LC750 for the Construction of a modular hotel on top of a shopping centre. One of Germany’s most powerful hire cranes, a Linden Comansa 21LC750 from BKL Baukran Logistik’s crane fleet, now stands on the parking deck of Berlin’s mall Ring-Center. Until the summer, […]
Crane Business, Jobsite reports, New cranes
ALE uses unique skidding techniques for korchagin topside in Russia
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ALE has used a unique offshore skidding technique for the first time to assist with the offshore installation of the satellite platform (SP) topside, weighing 2,565t, for the Korchagin oil field development project in Russia. ALE was contracted to perform the engineering, weighing, jacking and load-out of the SP topside, as well as the mooring […]