Ehingen / Danube (Germany) June 2017 – Emil Egger AG, a transport and heavy haulage contractor based in Sankt Gallen, has been operating Switzerland’s strongest crawler crane for several weeks. A Liebherr crawler crane LR 11000 has recently been supplied from the plant in Ehingen for its first job in Zurich. The 1000 tonne crane will […]
Category Archives: Crane Business
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Jun
Kolkata (India), June 2017 – NCC Ltd. has taken delivery of a Liebherr LTR 1220 telescopic crawler crane, which is equipped with polyamide pads for operation on metro site. The crane is currently working on the Nagpur Metro project. In this project the crane hoists girders for the two new metro lines which have a […]
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ALE are leading the way with employee learning and development as dozens of employees graduate from the ALE Leadership Development Programme. Launched in 2014, the programme was designed to train and develop team members across the group using internal trainers. Since then, over 100 ALE employees across different locations and teams, from finance and […]
Crane Business, Jobsite reports
Technology meets art – two Liebherr tower cranes build stage set in Bregenz
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Jun
Bregenz (Austria), 08 June 2017 – Liebherr is a construction partner to the Bregenz Festival: Two Liebherr tower cranes constructed the lake platform. The 154 EC-H 6 Litronic was specially anchored to the bed of Lake Constance for the opera “Carmen”, while the 71 K has been owned by the Festival since 2000. The construction […]
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ALE has started a long-distance transportation project to Oman. So far, ALE has transported two heavylift (HL) and 20 over-dimensional cargo (ODCs) as part of the new IBRI IPP power plant project in Ibri, Oman. The global heavy-lifting contractors secured the scope to receive and transport 110 ODC and HL cargo 640km on a challenging […]
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Jun
GGR Group announced today that construction work has started on a new, state of the Head Quarters. Located in Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, the site is just a five minute walk from Hadeenham Rail Station, with direct links to and from the capital, London. The build is expected to be completed November 2017. The new head […]
Crane Business, Jobsite reports
Liebherr LR 11350 and LR 1750 crawler cranes complete tandem hoist to position a bridge in Manchester
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Jun
Jun
Ehingen / Donau (Germany) June 2017 – As part of a major railway construction project in the North of England, the Scottish contractor Weldex uses two Liebherr crawler cranes to complete a central construction phase. In February both crawler cranes performed a tandem hoist for a 560-tonne arched bridge over the River Irwell in Manchester. […]
Companies, Crane Business, New cranes
Indonesian port operator places order for eight Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbor Cranes
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Konecranes has won its hitherto biggest order for Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbor Cranes in the Asia-Pacific region. In the course of 2017 and at the beginning of 2018, Java-based port operator PT Berlian Jasa Terminal Indonesia (PT BJTI) will add eight more cranes to its existing fleet of eight Konecranes Gottwald machines. For particularly eco-efficient […]
Crane Business, Jobsite reports
Precise sea wall positioning down to the nearest millimeter: SENNEBOGEN 880 EQ for land reclamation in Dubai
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May
May
Everything in equilibrium – it’s easy with the SENNEBOGEN 880 EQ: Dubai is growing and growing, so every meter counts as potential new building ground – land reclamation is an important objective. Bilal Transport uses a SENNEBOGEN 880 EQ to position stone blocks weighing up to 7 metric tons for coastal fortifications. Bilal General Transport […]
Companies, Crane Business, Jobsite reports, New cranes
TOPKRAN takes delivery of the first Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 mobile crane in Russia
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) May 2017 – Moscow crane rental company TOPKRAN took delivery of a Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 mobile crane in April. This is the first crane of this type in Russia. TOPKRAN will primarily use the new crane in the construction of underground railways. The Liebherr 750-tonne machine can lift tunnel drilling machines […]