One of the world’s largest capacity land based cranes, the AL.SK190, has performed its first lifts in Turkey. This primary milestone has been successfully achieved by handling and installing two critical components delivered at the greenfield petrochemical site in Aliağa, Izmir province in Turkey. IZMIR VINC, in partnership with ALE, used the mighty AL.SK190 crane […]
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Four SENNEBOGEN cranes in use in Algeria: 6113 is the latest addition to SAPTA’s machinery pool
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Jul
Jul
Algerian customer SAPTA, a specialist in bridge construction, is currently using four SENNEBOGEN cranes at the same time near Algiers. The crawler- and telescopic cranes lift heavy construction parts weighing up to 60 t. The latest of these cranes is a SENNEBOGEN 6113 telescopic crawler crane with a capacity for 120 t. As a long-standing […]
Jobsite reports, New cranes
Dragline bucket operation for water supply: SENNEBOGEN 55 t duty cycle crane
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Jul
Jul
The New Zealand sales and service partner Pace Cranes recently delivered a new SENNEBOGEN 655 duty cycle crane to the customer Rangitata Division Race Management Limited (RDRML). The place of use is around 113 km south of Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island – where the 55 t duty cycle crane continuously dredges the bed […]
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Jul
Jul
Spanish crane rental company Gruas Deca S.A. has rigged a mobile crane with a one-over-two below-the-hook solution from Modulift to replace roof sections at Estadio Municipal de Balaídos, the stadium of La Liga football club Celta Vigo. The 650t Terex Demag crane with 60m telescopic boom was used with a MOD 110H and two MOD […]
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Jun
Jun
Ehingen / Donau (Germany) June 2016 – A new-build Russian Orthodox church is being built in the centre of Paris not far from the Eiffel Tower. A total of five domes covered with gold leaf will crown the structure on its completion. The hoist of the largest dome by a Liebherr mobile crane drew a […]
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Jun
Jun
A hulking 1,400t capacity gantry crane, rigged with below-the-hook equipment from Modulift, has lifted nearly 100 transition pieces weighing 380t each onto barges in Poland for transportation to the Race Bank offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The crane, owned by Bilfinger Mars Offshore, stands 120m high on the Ostrów Brdowski island and is a […]
Jobsite reports
Liebherr 1000 EC-B 125 Litronic tower crane used for the first time to erect a wind turbine
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Jun
Jun
Biberach / Riss (Germany), 13 June 2016 – A Liebherr tower crane recently erected a wind turbine at an altitude of around 800 m in the Prechtaler Schanze Wind Farm in the Black Forest. The 1000 EC-B with its extremely low footprint erected for the first time a wind turbine with a hub height of […]
Crane Business, Jobsite reports
Airport construction in Singapore: Flexible 120 t telescopic crawler crane in use
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Jun
Jun
The expansion of Singapore Changi Airport with an additional, fifth terminal is in full progress. This is being led by a joint venture of the construction companies Penta-Ocean and Koon Construction. For the first time in Asia, a new SENNEBOGEN 6113 is being used in the form of a 120 t telescopic crawler crane for […]
Jobsite reports
Liebherr LR 11350 crawler crane operated by Mammoet erects large wind farm on the IJsselmeer
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May
May
Ehingen / Donau (Germany) May 2016 – For around one year the IJsselmeer (Lake IJssel) in the north of the Netherlands was the scene of an unusual job for a Liebherr LR 11350 crawler crane. The second most powerful crawler crane model from the plant in Ehingen erected the complete “Westermeerwind” wind farm from a massive […]
Jobsite reports
Liebherr cranes: the installation of Nossa Senhora Aparecida Sanctuary bell tower in Brazil
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May
May
Ehingen / Donau (Germany) Mai 2016 – Two Liebherr mobile cranes were used in the assembling of the metallic structure of the bell tower of the National Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora Aparecida, in São Paulo (Brazil). The Sanctuary in the city of Aparecida is the second largest catholic temple of the world, behind only of […]