The Mammoet outlet in Leuna made quite an impression with a smart solution and the use of two large Liebherr mobile cranes on a site in Berlin. The positioning of lattice supports weighing around 80 tonnes for a future municipal railway bridge from just one side of the river made both financial and logistic sense […]
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Dubai is spreading relentlessly into the arid desert region. The terrain is being developed through micro-tunneling projects that insert pipes in the dry earth – a 120-ton telescopic crawler crane from SENNEBOGEN lifts all of the equipment into the bore shafts. Hosting Expo 2020 will bring new impetus to Dubai. Expo will give rise to […]
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Reiden (Switzerland), 23 November 2018 – Swiss crane contractor VHB SA took delivery of a Liebherr MK 88 Plus mobile construction crane in November. The mobile construction crane was commissioned at Liebherr-Baumaschinen AG in Reiden as part of an induction training programme for the new crane. Managing Director Philippe Porret travelled with crane driver Alexis […]
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Nenzing (Austria) November 2018 – By 2030 the container port in Jätkäsaari will be transformed into an attractive district of Helsinki. In order to improve the soil conditions, the Finnish company Takanen is applying Liebherr equipment. The noteworthy on this jobsite: nine years ago, the Nordic countries experienced a highlight in their musical history here. […]
Crane News, General
Ale’s agreement with port of dundee and om heavy lift increases port services for renewables sector
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ALE has expanded its heavylifting services by establishing a non-disclosure agreement with the Port of Dundee and OM Heavy Lift to provide the full service of port operations. ALE, the global heavylifting specialists who provide the handling, transportation and installation of heavy loads with over 40 branches worldwide, signed the agreement with OM Heavy Lift, […]
Crane News, General
Liebherr Tower Cranes concludes test phase for its first high-tensile fibre ropes
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Biberach (Germany), 20 November 2018 – Working with Austrian rope manufacturer, Teufelberger, Liebherr has developed a new type of high-tensile fibre rope for hoisting applications which will increase the lifting capacity. During the development project, more than 100 different fibre rope prototypes, measuring around 70,000 metres in length, were developed. These underwent extensive testing on […]
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The design of new solutions for the 21LC1050 Flat-Top tower crane, launched two months ago (September 2018), allowed COMANSA’s R&D team to apply some of these developments to two of the manufacturer’s most successful cranes. Thus, models 21LC660 and 21LC750, mainly designed for large industrial projects, energy, mining and PPVC construction, improve their performance significantly. […]
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November 14, 2018 (Fernandina Beach, Fla.) – A1A Software LLC continues to improve the interface and features of 3D Lift Plan, making it easier for customers to use the crane lift planning program as a sales tool, for bid proposals, crane selection and setup, lift planning, and documentation. “We have utilized WebGL technologies to enable […]
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Covey Crane Service of Spencerport, NY has just added a new Manitex TC45142C, 45-ton capacity boom truck to their fleet. They purchased it from their local Manitex dealer Empire Crane Company, who has sold over 25 Manitex boom trucks in 2018 alone. Raymond Ziegler, president of Covey Crane said “we chose to purchase a Manitex […]
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A Bedfordshire, UK-based crane inspector utilised a Bluetooth-enabled, 6.5t capacity Radiolink plus load cell from Straightpoint (SP) to complete periodic inspection of an all-terrain crane recently. It was the latest in a series of similar assignments including load tests on lifting machines such as tower, loader, and other mobile cranes. JG Statutory Inspection Services Ltd. […]