Ehingen / Donau (Germany) March 2018 – Paris is growing. Massively. In 2016 the French capital and the surrounding départements were merged to form the “Metropole du Grand Paris” administrative unit. A total of 10 million people live in this enormous metropolis and there are plans to modernise and massively extend its infrastructure over the […]
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Liebherr LR 1500 crawler crane dismantles tunnel drilling machine on Sicily
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) March 2018 – Strong, compact and simple – the perfect description of the Liebherr LR 1500 in three words. And it was precisely these features which were required to dismantle a large tunnel drilling machine on Sicily. The 500-tonne crawler crane operated by Italian crane contractor Gradito completed the dismantling of […]
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ALE has used its innovative heavy duty jib for the first with the the AL.SK350 crane whilst performing the inaugural lift, weighing 1,276t, of an FPSO module integration project in Nigeria. The world’s largest capacity land based crane, the AL.SK350, has been rigged in its current biggest configuration with a 124m a-frame main boom, 49m […]
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ALE saves time and costs on wind projects with latest tower cranes
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ALE has added three new tower cranes to their extensive global fleet that are expected to make cost and time savings for clients in the wind sector. The innovative K1650L crane has lifting capabilities like no other free-standing tower crane on the wind energy market, with an increased lifting height, and the ability to work […]
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ALE utilises innovative barge for wind component load-out
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ALE’s latest marine investment, the SARAH S barge, has been deployed on its inaugural job to transport transition pieces (TPs) as part an offshore wind project in the UK. ALE was contracted to provide the specialist offshore engineering as well as the marine transportation, sea-fastening, load-out and ballasting of over 100 TPs for Ørsted’s Hornsea […]
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Baltic mobile crane rental company Strele Logistics supplied lifting and rigging equipment, including a Modulift spreader beam, as a 49t chimney was installed at a biological waste treatment facility in Kaunas, Lithuania last month (February). Strele accepted a scope of work to load the 35m-long, 2.75m-diameter pipe where it was manufactured at Enerstena Group’s facility, […]
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Polish marine electronics integration specialist Navinord has installed a state-of-the-art software package that includes four Straightpoint (SP) load cells on a 440t capacity floating crane, which is currently based near the Third Millennium John Paul II Bridge spanning the Martwa Wisła River in Gdansk, Poland. Its new owner renovated the crane, originally named “Consulado De […]
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ALE has completed the roof installation of the Olympic Parque Roca swimming pool in Buenos Aries, Argentina. The lifts were performed in December and finished in January. ALE installed six sections, weighing up to 50t, as well as a springboard and steel structure, using a 600t crawler crane with a luffing jib and 30.5m mast. […]
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A Further LR 1250 Enhances Crane Fleet and Convinces During Works Expansion
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Mar
Nenzing (Austria) March 2018 – The company Dornseiff expands its fleet with a crawler crane type LR 1250. Both the continuously variable main boom of the Liebherr crane and the possibility of increasing lifting capacity were huge advantages on the jobsite for the works expansion of the lighting manufacturer Osram in Regensburg, where Dornseiff’s new […]
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Linden Comansa will be exhibiting at the Big 5 Heavy show in Dubai
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Mar
Tower crane manufacturer and dealer AREMATES will show one of the models of higher demand in Emirates, the 16CM260 12t flat-top crane The Big 5, a brand of reference in the Middle East with regard to construction fairs, is organizing the Big 5 Heavy show, an event dedicated solely to machinery for public works and […]