A Modulift spreader combined with a 45m-long beam attached to a gantry and a crawler crane as 750t monopiles were tandem lifted from pontoons onto land in Cuxhaven on Germany’s North Sea coast. Schmidbauer GmbH & Co. KG was challenged by Cuxport GmbH to develop a solution for lifting the monopiles, bound for the Nordsee […]
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International product design company, IDC (Industrial Design Consultancy), has helped Select develop an innovative new windsail solution for luffing jib cranes facing tough space and safety restrictions in urban environments. This new windsail technology has meant that Select’s cranes have been able to achieve a smaller parking radius whilst retaining the full operational wind speed […]
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Representatives from the GGR Group were officially presented with the Queens Award for International Trade at their Head Quarters in Oldham, Manchester. Lord Lieutenant, Mr Warren Smith, the Queens representative of Greater Manchester, was joined by Sales Director of GGR Group, Michael Heneghan and Marketing Manager Daniel Ezzatvar, to receive the formal exchange of the accolade on Wednesday […]
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ALE has transported a transformer, weighing 249t, almost 6,000 miles, from Stafford, UK, to Gillem in Manitoba, Canada. ALE were contracted with the full turnkey scope of work, including the full project management, and engineering of each phase. The transformer first embarked on its extensive journey at the beginning of August and was transported and […]
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The world’s largest capacity land based crane, the AL.SK350, has performed its inaugural lifts in Brazil, using its 4,000t winch system and high speed slew. ALE is currently using the AL.SK350 crane to lift and install approximately 40 modules, weighing up to 3,000t, onto the P-74 FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) vessel in the […]
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ALE’s UK branch has jointly won the ‘Best Energy Project’ award for its collaboration when undertaking jack-up and roll-up operations in Suffolk, UK, by the East of England Energy Group (EEEG) Awards 2016. As part of the Dudgeon offshore wind farm project, ALE were given the scope of lifting components, performing multiple site moves, rolling-up […]
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Düsseldorf, Germany, 27 September 2016 – Terex Port Solutions (TPS) continues to set milestones in South America. TPS has received two orders for large cranes from Chile. In the third quarter of 2016, a diesel-electric Terex® Gottwald Model 8 mobile harbour crane in the G HMK 8410 two-rope variant has been delivered to Terminal Puerto Arica S.A. (TPA) in […]
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Liebherr LG 1750 mobile lattice boom crane operated by Wiesbauer has plenty in reserve
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) September 2016 – As part of the Stuttgart 21 infrastructure project, a pedestrian bridge had to be removed to be replaced by a new railway bridge in Baden-Württemberg’s state capital. Crane contractor Wiesbauer assembled its Liebherr LG 1750 lattice boom crane on the banks of the River Neckar to remove the […]
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) September 2016 – The first job awaiting the new Liebherr LR 1750/2 crawler crane operated by Fanger Kran AG was a demanding one in central Switzerland near Lucerne. The crane had to handle a gross load of around 270 tonnes to replace a 30-metre cylinder. In a very constricted space in the production […]
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Unloading – Transporting – Placing: The flexibilitiy of the 120t Telescopic Crane is impressive
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The Gollwitzer Company has become an internationally renowned and reliable partner in the special excavation work branch. During the construction of a 90 m stormwater reservoir in the German town of Neumarkt, the company successfully employed a 120 t telescopic crane, the SENNEBOGEN 6113. The pre-cast concrete components that the crane operators Roland Schiener and […]