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First LTR 1220 for Brazil

Brazilian heavy lift and haulage company Guindastes Tatuapé has taken delivery of the first 220 tonne Liebherr LTR 1220 telescopic crawler crane in Brazil.

The LTR1220 features the same 60 metre boom found on the LTM 1220-5.2 All Terrain crane and is fitted with a 12.2 to 22.2 metre bi-fold swing-away, which can be extended further with two seven metre lattice sections. The crane has already worked on a number of projects and is currently erecting concrete beams for the construction of a new railway line at Guarulhos Airport in Sao Paolo.

Founded in 1960, the family owned company has a fleet of more than 100 – including four Liebherr LTM 1220-5.2 telescopic mobile cranes. It also offers heavy haulage services as well as a number of boom lifts and telehandlers.

Liebherr LR 11350 to lift three coke drums

ALE’s Argentina branch used a Liebherr LR 11350 to lift three coke drums at the YPF refinery in Buenos Aires.

The coke drums weighed 435 tonnes each. ALE was also contracted to transport them, along with lifting derricks, coke drum structures and several other columns and heavy components. To transport the coke drums to the installation area, ALE used four 22 axle lines of conventional trailers.

For the lifts ALE used a 1,350 tonne capacity Liebherr LR 11350 lattice boom crawler crane. To reduce the ground bearing pressure the crawler was set up on load spreading mats usually used for ALE’s AL.SK crane.

Hernán Asensio, ALE project manager, said, “In this project we faced several challenges; working to install such large, heavy coke drums in a small working area filled with obstacles such as trees and buildings. Because of the client’s schedule, the heaviest pieces needed to be lifted during the windy season, which posed another challenge.

“By using the LR 11350 crane with P boom and four configurations, we were able to optimise the manoeuvres in the limited space we had available and minimise the removal of any obstacles. The client was pleased we could provide the engineering solution within the challenging environment.”

This transport and installation of the coke drums took three months to complete.

Third LTM 11200 9.1 for Max Bögl

German crane group Max Bögl has taken delivery of its third 1,200 tonne Liebherr LTM 11200 9.1 making it six Liebherr crane so far this year.

The new crane features the 100 metre main boom option, which when combined with the luffing jib takes the maximum system length up to 188 metres.

Bögl took its first LTM11200-9.1 in April 2013 and its second in May of this year, the latest unit was recently handed over at Liebherr’s plant in Ehingen.

Peter Guttenberger, director of transport and machines at Max Bögl said: “We particularly use our LTM 11200 9.1 in the wind power industry. They are perfect for erecting hybrid towers”.

The other four Liebherr cranes taken this year include two 45 tonne LTF 1045-3.1 truck-mounted cranes a 100 tonne LTR 1100 and 220 tonne telescopic crawler cranes. The company has also ordered two more LTR1100 crawler cranes for delivery in the first half of 2015.

Liebherr supplies Krandienst’s first crawler

Hamburg-based crane company Autokranvermietung Krandienst Schulz has entered the crawler crane hire market with the purchase of a Liebherr LR 1600/2.

The crane features Liebherr’s new SL13 boom system, designed to assist with the erection of the latest generation of wind turbines with hub heights of more than 150m.

Krandienst has already hired the crane to a wind turbine project, with the LR 1600/2 erecting 2.5MW-class turbines at Neiler, in the Swabian Alps. The project involved lifting 63t loads to a hub height of 138m.

Company owners Günther Sichward and Michael Schmidt-Pöpping said: “We continue to see plenty of demand for cranes in the wind industry. But our large telescopic cranes are no longer suitable for erecting the latest generation of wind turbines.”

Krandienst operates 24 telescopic mobile cranes, with load capacities from 30-750t.

Argentina’s largest crane assists coke project

ALE has completed the lift of three coke drums at a Buenos Aires refinery, using what is said to be the largest crane in Argentina.

The Argentina branch of ALE completed the project, which involved the transport and lift of the three 435t, 42m-long drums, using a 1,350t Liebherr LR11350 crane.

The job was undertaken as part of YPF’s Nuevo Coke A project, and also involved weighing, transporting and lifting derricks and coke drum structures, as well as transporting and installing columns and heavy components.

ALE’s project manager Hernán Asensio said: “We faced several challenges; working to install such large, heavy coke drums in a small working area filled with obstacles such as trees and buildings. Because of the client’s schedule, the heaviest pieces needed to be lifted during the windy season, which posed another challenge.

“By using the LR11350 crane with P boom and four configurations, we were able to optimise the manoeuvres in the limited space we had available and minimise the removal of any obstacles.”

Liebherr supplies tower cranes to Kingdom Tower

Liebherr has won the contract to supply four HC-L series tower cranes to the Kingdom Tower project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Three 280 HC-L 16/28 cranes and one 357 HC-L 18/32 Litronic will be supplied to the project, with jib lengths of 40 – 45 m and lifting capacities of 11 – 12 tonnes at a radius of 35 m. The 280 HC‑L luffing cranes will be used to build the side wings of the Kingdom Tower, with hook heights reaching some 400 m. The 357 HC-L will be on the main tower, with a hook height of some 1,000 m.

To reach these heights the cranes will move upwards in several climbing stages. They will be positioned on the sky terrace of the building or on various cantilever platforms mounted on the outside of the building.

According to Liebherr, the positive experience contractor Saudi Bin Laden Group has had with its cranes on other projects were one of the main reasons for their use on the Kingdom Tower. For example, two 280 HC‑L cranes were used on the CMA Tower in the King Abdullah Financial District project in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

The Kingdom Tower will be the first structure in the world to be over 1,000 m high. It will also have the highest ever visitor viewing platform at a height of 630 m. The skyscraper with 170 storeys is part of the “Kingdom City” urban development project in the north of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.