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Crane Rental bolsters fleet with five new cranes

Crane Rental Corporation, based in Orlando, Florida, has further expanded its fleet with the purchase of five cranes.

The company added a 275t Manitowoc 999 crawler crane; a 230t Link-Best LS-298 crawler; two 130t Grove RT9130E hydraulic rough-terrain cranes; and an 80t Grove RT880E hydraulic rough-terrain crane.

The move was made in response to “increasing demand in almost every sector of our industry”, said company president Alan Ashlock.

Crane Rental had already expanded its fleet this year, purchasing cranes including a Peiner SK415 tower; a 660t Manitowoc 18000 crawler; a 600t Terex AC 500-2 all-terrain hydraulic truck crane; and a 275t Grove GMK 5275 all-terrain hydraulic truck crane.

Updated Liebherr cranes extend boom reach

Rieger & Moser has replaced two existing cranes in its fleet with new Liebherr mobile cranes, both with longer telescopic booms.

The Ulm, Germany-based crane company purchased a 60t LTM 1060-3.1 with a 48m telescopic boom, replacing a 23-year-old Liebherr LTM 1040-1 with a 26m boom. This will enable many jobs to be completed without the installation of a folding jib, reducing crane erection time.

Also added was a 95t LTM 1095-5.1 mobile crane with a 58m telescopic boom, hook height of 82m and working radii of up to 60m.

This replaces an LTM 1100-1 with a 45m boom, which Rieger & Moser purchased in 1997.

Potain helps Lyon reach new heights

Two Potain tower cranes are being used to construct what will be the third-largest building in France.
At 200m high, the Tour Incity will be the tallest building in Lyon when completed, and will comprise 44,000 sq m of offices as well as four restaurants.

The project’s main contractor Bouygues erected two of its Potain tower cranes at the site: a 16t MD 550 top-slewing crane using 60m of its 80m jib, and a 12t MDT 222 topless crane using 30m of its 65m jib.

The cranes are operating for 14 hours a day, building one floor a week over 30 months and climbing 15m a month, to final working heights of 280m.

The schedule has been imposed due to the inner-city location, with a busy road, school and shopping mall all adjacent to the site.

The demands of the location also led to Bouygues climbing the MDT 222 internally, using a floor climbing system involving a frame attached the building’s concrete core. The MD 550 is installed with Potain’s external anchorage system, with frames fixing the mast to the outside of the building.

Julian Bargues, job site manager at Bouygues, said: “Working in such a tight space means we need very precise load control and smooth movement, two things we know Potain cranes are ideal for.”

Pressing issue solved by Terex Superlift

Three press components each weighing at least 200t have been lifted out of a factory in Germany using a 650t Terex Superlift 3800 lattice boom crawler crane.

Crane company Viktor Baumann employed the crane to lift two 270t components and one 200t components from an SGL Carbon facility in Bonn, at a working radius of 26m.

The Terex crane was assembled by a team of five at the SGL premises, using a 220t assist crane. It was set up with an SSL configuration, a heavy 48m main boom, and a 36m SL mast. 165t of counterweight was used on the crane’s superstructure, with 320t on the SL counterweight tray.

Liebherr provides right chemistry for Karl Scholl

German crane company Karl Scholl has targeted the chemicals industry with the addition of a 300t Liebherr LTM 1300-6.2 mobile crane to its fleet.

The LTM 1300-6.2, with a 78m telescopic boom, replaced the company’s 250t LTM 1250-6.1, providing higher load capacity and an additional 6m in boom length.

The crane, now the largest in the fleet of Heidelberg-based Karl Scholl, is said to be the smallest luffing jib crane on the market. It was supplied by Liebherr’s Ehingen facility.

The long telescopic boom and luffing jib make it particularly suitable for use in the chemicals industry, said the company.

Liebherr takes to the Autobahn

German crane company Autokranverleih Pengel has used its new 220t Liebherr LTM 1220-5.2 mobile crane at a motorway construction project.

The LTM 1220-5.2 replaced Pengel’s LTM 1160/2, previously the largest crane in the company’s fleet. The greater load capacity of the LTM 1220-5.2 was one of the reasons for the acquisition, said the company.

After being delivered in September, the crane was used at one of the largest construction sites on the A14 Autobahn in the north-east of Germany.