Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd. (RSS) is raising the capacity and diversity of its rigging stock, whilst equipping itself to respond to increasing demand for complex below-the-hook solutions, to more efficiently serve the heavy-lift sector. RSS attends to a myriad of industries from six UK locations but its most recently opened site is in Warrington, […]
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A decade of continued innovation with the AL.SK crane anniversary
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Apr
Apr
ALE is celebrating the 10-year anniversary since the launch of the AL.SK crane series, which have performed some exceptional and record-breaking lifts previously thought impossible. In 2006, ALE’s Research and Development (R&D) division, based in Breda, the Netherlands, began developing concepts for a new crane. ALE wanted the new design to have the highest capacity […]
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Apr
Apr
ALE has completed a landmark crane lift of the historic HM Bark Endeavour ship, weighing 274t, in Stockton-on-Tees, UK. HM Bark Endeavour, one of only two full-scale replicas in the world of the ship commanded by explorer Captain James Cook for his voyage to Australia and New Zealand, needed to be moved from its current […]
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Apr
Apr
Rental company City Lifting supplies a Linden Comansa tower crane model 21LC750 with maximum load capacity of 50 tonnes for the construction of a hotel next to Terminal 2. With almost 80 million passengers in 2017, Heathrow airport in London is one of the world’s busiest in traffic. Thousands of travellers use this huge airport […]
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Mar
Mar
ALE has used its innovative heavy duty jib for the first with the the AL.SK350 crane whilst performing the inaugural lift, weighing 1,276t, of an FPSO module integration project in Nigeria. The world’s largest capacity land based crane, the AL.SK350, has been rigged in its current biggest configuration with a 124m a-frame main boom, 49m […]
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ALE saves time and costs on wind projects with latest tower cranes
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Mar
Mar
ALE has added three new tower cranes to their extensive global fleet that are expected to make cost and time savings for clients in the wind sector. The innovative K1650L crane has lifting capabilities like no other free-standing tower crane on the wind energy market, with an increased lifting height, and the ability to work […]
Crane Business, Crane News, Jobsite reports
ALE utilises innovative barge for wind component load-out
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Mar
Mar
ALE’s latest marine investment, the SARAH S barge, has been deployed on its inaugural job to transport transition pieces (TPs) as part an offshore wind project in the UK. ALE was contracted to provide the specialist offshore engineering as well as the marine transportation, sea-fastening, load-out and ballasting of over 100 TPs for Ørsted’s Hornsea […]
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Feb
Feb
ALE has increased its jacking capacity to over 100,000t with the introduction of new jacking systems and enhancements to existing technologies. In order to fill a gap in the market and satisfy client demand to perform the jacking operations on three jobs at the same time, ALE has built four new towers for the Mega […]
Crane Business, Jobsite reports
ALE’s innovative mega jack 800 scores hat-trick with STS crane jack-ups in Barcelona
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Feb
Feb
ALE has used its award-winning Mega Jack 800 system to heighten and jack-up three STS crane, weighing 1,390t each, in Barcelona, Spain. ALE was sub-contracted by ZPMC to jack-up the cranes almost 6m high, so the cranes could be extended at the Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST). Due to the ongoing activities on-site and the […]
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Nov
Nov
ALE has completed their heavylifting operations for the Earls Court project in London, UK. ALE was contracted by Keltbray to use its innovative heavylifting crane, the AL.SK190, to lift 61 portal beams, weighing between 100t – 1,500t, out from the London Underground and over the District Line. During the project ALE performed the largest single […]