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Mammoet expands in Antwerp and LATAM

Mammoet has opened a new crane depot at the Port of Antwerp and new offices in Latin America.

The new Antwerp depot is designed to ensure Mammoet has cranes in the vicinity of its customers in the petrochemical, container shipment and dredging industry, giving quick services and helping to optimise customer project planning and delivery.

Mammoet’s new offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil, replacing the company’s previous premises in the city, will serve as the main offices for the whole Latin America region. New offices are also now open in Bolivia and Rio de Janeiro to reinforce Mammoet’s local presence.

Christiaan Lavooij, managing director of Mammoet Latin America, said the company was expanding its business in Latin America by providing a full range of services in support of clients’ projects.

It is continuing to work with Sao-Paulo-based IRGA, a major Brazilian transport and logistics company. The partners have worked together on several large projects, including in the wind power industry.

Spydercrane equips mini crawlers with Hirschmann

Spydercrane has equipped four models in its mini crawler range with Hirschmann’s new qSCALE I2 load moment indicator (LMI).

The URW375, URW376, URW547 and URW706 models now feature the qSCALE I2, designed to assist operators by displaying crane load and geometric information, including actual/allowable load, boom length, boom angle, radius and anti-two block.

The LMI has a colour graphic display and customized software to meet Spydercrane’s requirements.

Spydercrane models equipped with the qSCALE I2 are already in use in the oil, gas and construction industries.

ALE load-out at 47,830t platform

UK-based heavy lift specialist ALE completed a 47,830t load-out of a Russian oil and gas production platform.

The load-out of the Arkutun Dagi topside, occurred at the Arkutun Dagi oil field of the east Russian coast and was also a first of a kind project for ALE’s Mega Jack system. The 42,780t topside was jacked to a height of 24m in 11 hours, with the Mega Jack configured in four sets of towers, giving an overall jacking capacity of 60,000t.

ALE’s full scope of work included stand jack pulling, a high capacity modular ballast system and 3D barge monitoring, as well as full engineering work and project supervision.

The weight, which included a 5,135t support frame, working tolerances of the barge were smaller than during conventional load-outs.

The high capacity modular ballast system was adapted for each barge, with 2400 Cu M/Hr ballast pumps used, enabling the pump and power pack operation to be completed from one central control using computerised control.

Liebherr LTMs in mammoth airport hangar tandem lift

The Felbermayr Group has used Liebherr LTM 1400-7.1 and LTM 1350-6.1 mobile cranes in a tandem lift of a 190t truss for a new Austrian airport hangar construction.

The lift of the 100m-long truss was part of a steel skeleton erection for a maintenance hangar for business jets at Schwechat Airport, Vienna.

Wels-based crane and heavy load contractor Felbermayr also used three smaller Liebherr mobile cranes for positioning and installing cross and connecting elements.

A total of 800t of steel was lifted to form the hangar structure.

Meanwhile, Felbermayr has been investing in its Eastern European operations with purchases of the Liebherr LR 11000 crawler crane with 1,000t lifting capacity and three large LR 1750 crawler cranes.

The LR 11000 is currently installing a 300t reactor at a refinery near Bucharest.

Sennebogen precision lift for Guggenberger

A Sennebogen 643 mobile telescopic crane is being used by Guggenberger to lift prefabricated concrete sections on a residential construction project in Bavaria.

German construction and civil engineering industry supplier Guggenberger, which has its own gravel, concrete and asphalt facilities, says the 40t Sennebogen with 4-point outrigger has a range of up to 43m with attached fly boom and is lifting components weighing up to 9.8t on the site in Neutraubling.

The concrete components needed to be placed with pinpoint precision to form a storage canal under a road to channel rainwater.

Guggenberger is using the Sennebogen to cover all construction site requirements, citing benefits such as short set-up times and maximum mobility and manoeuvrability on narrow sites.

Local Sennebogen sales and service partner IBS Baumaschinen supplied the 643 M.

Liebherr builds rescue crane for German army

Liebherr has developed an armoured rescue crane for the German army to aid rescue and towing of the army’s new generation of vehicles.

Passenger protection was a high priority when the order for the G-BKF was placed, so Liebherr worked with Rheinmetall Defence to produce the armoured driver’s cab and armoured crane cab, which has been extended 250mm compared to the standard cab to provide storage space for personal protective equipment and integrate military communication equipment. The driver’s cab has a double-thickness steel bulkhead construction and the transparent armour offers ballistic protection, while the armoured crane cab is a composite build to reduce weight.

The G-BKF is mounted on a four-axle all-terrain crane chassis, using Liebherr’s own D946TI 544bhp engine. In towing mode, vehicles up to 16t can be mounted on the lift cradle, with two Rotzler Treibmatic winches mounted on the rear. A telescopic 20.9m boom can handle loads up to 20t.