Ehingen / Donau (Germany), 13 June 2018 – “Long, powerful and versatile” is Liebherr’s description of its new LTM 1230-5.1 mobile crane at its customer days 2018 at the manufacturing plant in Ehingen. The highlights include the length and lifting capacity of the telescopic boom. Its predecessor, the LTM 1200-5.1, also had one of the […]
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Nenzing (Austria) June 2018 – The Port of Vado Ligure is expanding its capacity. Mounted on the barge “Wise”, the Liebherr duty cycle crawler crane HS 8130 HD is removing sediment from the mouth of the port and is increasing the depth of the water to enable trouble-free shipping. As one of the major hubs […]
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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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 […]
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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 […]
Companies, Crane Business, New cranes
First LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane delivered to Asia – Set Win Group delighted with its Liebherr 450-tonne machine
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) June 2018 – The Set Win Group took delivery of its new LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane during the Liebherr Customer Day at Hong Kong. Managing Directors Alan and Raymond Kan are delighted with the new flagship in their fleet: “The LTM 1450-8.1 exceeds our expectations. It was the right decision at […]
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A dozen wireless Straightpoint (SP) load cells were added to a custom-built lifting frame that utilized 12 pick points to raise a pair of non-identical refinery modules at a major brownfield project at Saint John in New Brunswick, Canada recently. The 100-tonne capacity Radiolink plus dynamometers were provided by Stoney Creek, Ontario-based Equipment Corps Inc., […]