The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch non-profit developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, and Konecranes, a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, announced today a partnership to design, manufacture, and service The Ocean Cleanup’s Interceptor™, which is designed to extract plastic from rivers before entering the ocean. This is an important step as the […]
Category Archives: General
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Mar
Mar
Buying used cranes requires a good deal of trust. Since it was founded, Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH has delivered more than 10,000 used cranes to customers throughout the world. The market leader for mobile cranes is in fact also the largest used crane dealer in the world. Crane and heavy haulage contractor Força Diseño & Ingenieria […]
Two Sennebogen telescopic crawler cranes are rebuilding the French Riviera. The Port of Cannes has been carrying out renovation and reinforcement work on the Laubeuf and du Large seawalls since 2018: it is a major construction project for both the port and the City of Cannes. The main objective of this renovation work is to […]
Crane Business, Crane News, General, Jobsite reports
Liebherr LTM 1090-4.2 hoists work platform out of the river
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Oct
Oct
Historic backdrop – Wilden hoists work platform out of the river using Liebherr LTM 1090-4.2 mobile crane • Mobile cranes regularly hoist work platforms intot he River Wupper for inspecting bridge structures • Extensive preparations are required for the job near a listed suspension railway Work platforms are regularly placed into the water of the […]
Crane Business, Crane News, General, Jobsite reports
Liebherr LR 1500 crawler crane ready for any job
22
Oct
Oct
HKV’s Liebherr LR 1500 crawler crane is extremely flexible for handling heavy loads and erecting construction cranes, bridges and wind turbines • Two jobs with in aweek–short set-up time and good transport logistics impress • Liebherr 500-tonne crane can be used flexiblyf or erection work and heavy loads • Special boom systems available for erecting […]
Companies, Crane Business, Crane News, General, New cranes
Sweden gets a Liebherr R 980 SME crawler excavator
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May
May
Managing Director Patrik Snells is already the proud owner of 12 Liebherr machines and was given the opportunity by the mine operators to increase the flow volume, thanks to the high demand for Swedish iron ore. That’s why, following his investment in a R 976 in 2018, he has now decided on this machine which […]
Companies, Crane Business, Crane News, General
Cranes For You B.V., has landed a Benelux dealership agreement with XCMG
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Mar
Mar
A newly-formed Netherlands-based company, Cranes For You B.V., has landed a Benelux dealership agreement with the Chinese Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co., Ltd. – XCMG. Cranes For You B.V., based in Houten the Netherlands, will sell the full XCMG range of cranes and foundation equipment throughout the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. In addition it will […]
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Dec
Dec
ALE has used the 354,000te/m high capacity and long outreach of the worlds largest capacity land based crane to lift the first of three modules on top of the offshore topside for an oil and gas project in Texas, USA. The three modules, weighing a combined total up to 6,614t (7,290 US t with block […]
Crane Business, Crane News, General
Liebherr concrete mixing plant operates at an altitude of 2,340 metres in Switzerland
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Dec
Dec
Bad Schussenried (Germany), 19 December 2018 – A Liebherr Compactmix 1.0 is supplying the construction site for the “V-cableway” (or “V-Bahn”) project in the Swiss mountains with concrete. The project was a challenge both in terms of logistics and on-site operation. The Grindelwald-Männlichen Gondola Cableway company and Jungfraubahn railway company are planning to build a V-cableway that will […]
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Dec
Dec
Ehingen / Donau (Germany) December 2018 – One hundred thousand visitors stream to the small town of Ralswiek on the island of Rügen every summer. Every year, fascinating stories about the famous pirate Klaus Störtebeker are played out in great detail on a natural stage on the banks of the Jasmunder Bodden, a lagoon measuring […]