Montreal, QC, April 19, 2017 — CM Labs Simulations today announced the release of the all-new Luffing Tower Crane (LTC) Training Pack, the first simulation-based LTC training platform on the market. Immediately available for deployment across the full catalog of Vortex® Construction Equipment Simulators, the LTC Training Pack is CM Labs’ most feature-rich crane simulation […]
Category Archives: Crane Business
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GLY Construction will use Linden Comansa’s 64-tonne luffer to build the Rufus 2.0 Block 21 project, part of Amazon’s new headquarters. Model LCL700 is the largest luffing-jib tower crane from manufacturer Linden Comansa. It was launched in April 2017 with two versions of maximum load (50 and 64 tonnes / 110,230 and 141,090 lb) and […]
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ALE has completed a landmark crane lift of the historic HM Bark Endeavour ship, weighing 274t, in Stockton-on-Tees, UK. HM Bark Endeavour, one of only two full-scale replicas in the world of the ship commanded by explorer Captain James Cook for his voyage to Australia and New Zealand, needed to be moved from its current […]
Crane Business, Jobsite reports
Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbor Crane for Italian multi-purpose terminal
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Konecranes has won a repeat order from Terminal San Giorgio S.r.L. (TSG) for a Konecranes Gottwald Model 7 Mobile Harbor Crane. The order was received in the first quarter of 2018, and the crane will be commissioned in June 2018 in Genoa. The mobile harbor crane will handle containers, general cargo and project cargo in […]
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The Grand Rapid Express is a group of six fully automated metro lines in Greater Paris to be realized by 2030. The project is planned to include 72 stations along its 205 km of tracks. Construction work commenced two years ago. The already existing fully automated lines will be upgraded and extended, and four completely […]
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Nenzing (Austria) April 2018 – An urban construction project is currently being executed in Moscow: an ultra-modern bus terminal with a capacity of 15,000 passengers per day. The contractor Fensma is relying on Liebherr in two respects during the deep foundation phase. Red Square: The stage of Russian history and pulsating centre of Moscow. Only […]
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Ehingen / Bad Schussenried (Germany), April 2018 – A Liebherr LR 11000 crawler crane operated by heavy haulage and transport contractor Emil Egger AG installed a silo with a capacity of 470 cubic metres in Oberriet, a Swiss municipality on the border with Austria. The Betomat 5/470 mixing plant it installed is also manufactured by […]
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Rental company City Lifting supplies a Linden Comansa tower crane model 21LC750 with maximum load capacity of 50 tonnes for the construction of a hotel next to Terminal 2. With almost 80 million passengers in 2017, Heathrow airport in London is one of the world’s busiest in traffic. Thousands of travellers use this huge airport […]
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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 […]
Crane News, Jobsite reports
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 […]