Ehingen / Donau (Germany), 13 June 2018 – “Long, powerful and versatile” is Liebherr’s description of its new LTM 1230-5.1 mobile crane at its customer days 2018 at the manufacturing plant in Ehingen. The highlights include the length and lifting capacity of the telescopic boom. Its predecessor, the LTM 1200-5.1, also had one of the […]
Category Archives: Crane News
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Nenzing (Austria) June 2018 – The Port of Vado Ligure is expanding its capacity. Mounted on the barge “Wise”, the Liebherr duty cycle crawler crane HS 8130 HD is removing sediment from the mouth of the port and is increasing the depth of the water to enable trouble-free shipping. As one of the major hubs […]
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany), 13 June 2018 – Liebherr is set to unveil a new 800-tonne crawler crane to visitors from all over the world at its 2018 customer days – the LR 1800-1.0. Outstanding lifting capacities and low cost transport around the world are the main features of the new large crane. It has […]
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Leading lifting solutions specialist, GGR Group has received the UK’s first industrial-assembly-crane, the AC500, from manufacturer HEMATEC, based in Germany. The innovative AC500 allows operators to pick and carry loads of up to 500kg and can boom out to an impressive 5.1 metres. It is able to lift to a height of 10.5 metres and its […]
Crane News, New cranes
New Liebherr LTM 1090-4.2 with 60-metre telescopic boom shows what it can do on constricted sites
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) June 2018 – The variable support base for Liebherr mobile cranes, VarioBase® is established in practice is a solution to space problems on sites. The feature developed at the Liebherr Plant in Ehingen allows the flexible use of restricted set-up space. On two exemplary job sites in Denmark and Switzerland it […]
Crane News, General, Safety
CM Labs Releases Industry’s First Simulation-based Crane Signaller Training Solution
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Montreal, QC, June 19, 2018 — CM Labs today announced the release of its new Signaller Training Station, a simulation-based solution that is the only one of its kind in the industry. Designed to work in conjunction with CM Labs’ Vortex® Trainer and Advantage simulators, the Signaller Training Station allows trainers to simultaneously engage multiple […]
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Below-the-hook equipment manufacturer Modulift and Siemens Heat Transfer Technology B.V. combined forces to design a special rig for lifting modules that weighed nearly 200t a piece. Modulift sent two rigs for on- and off-load in Korea and Thailand respectively—a total of 16 no. 34t capacity MOD 34 beams in addition to slings, shackles, tie-plates, and […]
Crane Business, Crane News, Jobsite reports
Linden Comansa and BKL install a modular building on a Berlin rooftop
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German rental and crane specialist BKL supplies a tower crane model 21LC750 for the Construction of a modular hotel on top of a shopping centre. One of Germany’s most powerful hire cranes, a Linden Comansa 21LC750 from BKL Baukran Logistik’s crane fleet, now stands on the parking deck of Berlin’s mall Ring-Center. Until the summer, […]
Crane Business, Jobsite reports, New cranes
ALE uses unique skidding techniques for korchagin topside in Russia
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ALE has used a unique offshore skidding technique for the first time to assist with the offshore installation of the satellite platform (SP) topside, weighing 2,565t, for the Korchagin oil field development project in Russia. ALE was contracted to perform the engineering, weighing, jacking and load-out of the SP topside, as well as the mooring […]
Companies, Crane Business, New cranes
First LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane delivered to Asia – Set Win Group delighted with its Liebherr 450-tonne machine
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) June 2018 – The Set Win Group took delivery of its new LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane during the Liebherr Customer Day at Hong Kong. Managing Directors Alan and Raymond Kan are delighted with the new flagship in their fleet: “The LTM 1450-8.1 exceeds our expectations. It was the right decision at […]