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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New Liebherr LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane delivers strength and flexibility
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) March 2018 – The Ingolstadt site of crane contractor BKL Baukran Logistik has had a new Liebherr LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane since February. The first job for the brand-new eight-axle crane, the dismantling of a 75 metre construction crane, was perfect for it. The 85 metre telescopic boom on the LTM […]
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Vancouver, WA Microcranes, Inc. introduces the ISO Certified M1 Global Model Microcrane®. A leader in the emerging mini crane industry, the company focuses on developing, producing and distributing eco-friendly battery powered or electric, small, portable lifting equipment used indoors, outdoors and on roof tops. The M1 Global design fits through 36 in. doorways, narrow aisles […]
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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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Mar
Mar
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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Linden Comansa will be attending the main tower crane event in North America in June, showing its wide range of products and services The city of Miami was one of the U.S. most booming areas for construction in 2017, despite the problems caused by Hurricane Irma to the local tower crane industry last September. Probably […]
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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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Mar
Mar
In tunnel engineering, superlatives are the norm, and new records are set, somewhere in the world, almost every day. Kilometre-long bores through mountain massifs, deep below the seabed or only centimetres away from existing urban infrastructure: everywhere, man and machine successfully drill their way through. In most cases, tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) from Herrenknecht provide the […]
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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. […]