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 […]
Category Archives: Crane News
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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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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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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 […]
Companies, Crane Business, Crane News, General
conAgro marks appointment as official Raimondi Cranes agent of Cyprus with sale of three new topless tower cranes
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December 17, 2018 (Legnano, Milan, Italy)- Raimondi Cranes has today announced the agency appointment of conAgro Ltd as the sole official Cypriot dealer of its tower and luffing cranes and its range of crane accessories in the country. The new agency appointment, effective immediately, is launched in tandem with conAgro’s sale of three Raimondi MRT111 […]
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) December 2018 – Construction work on rail tracks which require railway traffic to be postponed for a limited time generally have one thing in common – massive time pressure. The essential thing is that the trains start moving again on schedule after the end of the planned track closure. The installation […]
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A fleet of UNIC URW-1006 mini spider cranes have been sold to the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and logistics Organisation (FMI) in Denmark. These green UNIC mini cranes will be used by military staff to help repair and maintain vital machinery for Defence Operations. The UNIC URW-1006 mini crane is extremely portable and quick […]
Crane News, General, Jobsite reports
Greater safety for wind turbine erection work using the single-line guiding system from Liebherr
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Ehingen/ Donau (Germany) December 2018 – The blades on the latest generation of wind turbines are nowadays installed individually using rotor blade yokes. Liebherr has developed a system for this future-oriented application, which makes the installation process safer, more economical and in many cases also greener – the SLGS single-line guiding system. To stabilise long […]
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The tower crane manufacturer took the most of Asia’s leading trade show for construction machinery by announcing new models and upgrades and presenting new corporate materials Very few times a company has the chance to gather around most of their customers, friends and potential clients. Bauma China, Asia’s most important trade show for construction machinery, […]
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany), November 2018 – The Polish crane and heavy haulage company Dźwigi Mazowsze Marcin Zielonka has taken possession of the first Liebherr rough-terrain crane of type LRT 1100-2.1 in Poland. It is the first rough-terrain crane in the company’s fleet and is earmarked for long-term construction sites and applications on rough terrain. […]