Ehingen / Donau (Germany) October 2018 – A modern Liebherr compact crane was used to carry out maintenance work at a power plant in Saxony. The Liebherr LTC 1050-3.1 proved to be the ideal choice of hoisting equipment to install a forced draught fan in very constricted conditions with a limited room height. A large […]
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Companies, Crane Business, Crane News, General
750th Liebherr mobile construction crane goes to Heros
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Oct
Oct
Biberach / Riss (Germany), October 2018 – Liebherr has delivered its 750th mobile construction crane to Heros Kraanverhuur B.V. The Belgian-Dutch haulage contractor is a long-term customer of the construction machinery manufacturer and already uses a large number of Liebherr machines for its wide range of services. The landmark crane was handed over at Liebherr-Werk […]
Crane News, General
Lifting technology: Konecranes modernises the rotary crane at the DLR test facility for rocket drives
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Oct
Oct
Konecranes modernises the rotary crane at the test facility for rocket drives at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR (German Aerospace Centre), installing the latest technology for increased efficiency and safety. Konecranes modernises the rotary crane at the test facility for rocket drives at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR […]
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Oct
Oct
Three Modulift spreader beams were used in a one-over-two configuration beneath the hook of a 350t capacity mobile crane to remove the historic Castle Way footbridge in Southampton, UK last month (September). Lifting and height safety specialist TackleStore Ltd T/A SafetyLiftinGear.com supplied the beams—a MOD 70 and two MOD 12s—alongside slings and shackles. The company […]
Companies, Crane Business, Crane News, General
Gruas Aguilar modernises crane fleet with seven new Liebherr cranes
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Oct
Oct
Ehingen / Donau (Germany), October 2018 – Gruas Aguilar based in Madrid has purchased seven new mobile and crawler cranes from Liebherr. The cranes have lifting capacities ranging from 50 to 1200 tonnes enabling the Spanish crane and heavy haulage contractor to modernise its fleet. The order comprises one LTC 1050-3.1 compact crane, one LRT […]
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Oct
Oct
Milwaukee Crane & Equipment has installed a custom, 10-ton capacity overhead crane at Papé Machinery’s new construction and forestry equipment dealership in Ponderay, Idaho. The lifting equipment, manufactured by R&M Materials Handling Inc., had to accommodate extremely low headroom and satisfy the specifications that manufacturing giant John Deere requires of its distributors and regional partners. […]
Crane Business, Crane News, General
Belgian company ordered its 15 th Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbor crane
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Oct
Oct
Konecranes has won another order from Goeyvaerts-R bvba (Goeyvaerts), a rental crane expert. The order was placed in the third quarter of 2018 and the crane will be delivered to Antwerp in November 2018. It will be Goeyvaerts’ 15 th Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbor crane and the largest crane in their fleet. Goeyvaerts will add the diesel-electric crane to its […]
Companies, Crane News, General
Schick takes delivery of the most powerful 5-axle crane on the market – lifting capacity extension with the Liebherr LTM 1250-5.1 mobile crane
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Oct
Oct
Ehingen / Donau (Germany) October 2018 – Anton Schick GmbH took delivery of a Liebherr LTM 1250-5.1 mobile crane in July. “This means we now have the most powerful five-axle crane on the market in our fleet”, says Managing Director Anton Schick. The company based in Bad Kissingen in the heart of Germany will use […]
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Sep
Sep
The keys of the 244 luxury apartments of the “Azuri Penisnula” complex will be amongst the first couple to be handed over of the entire Eko Atlantic project, a spectacular business and residential city under construction on an artificial peninsula in Lagos, the Financial Capital of Nigeria. The State of Lagos and the Chagoury Group […]
General, New cranes
A Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbor Crane with new drive concept delivered to Bremer Weserport
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Sep
Sep
Konecranes supplied a mobile harbor crane with a new drive concept to Weserport in Bremen in June 2018. Weserport uses the crane in Terminal 1 of Bremen’s Industriehafen for loading and unloading general cargo and handling project loads. The new Model 6 mobile harbor crane in the G HMK 6507 two-rope variant offers Weserport a maximum lifting capacity […]