A Manitowoc MLC165 heavy-duty crawler crane has been sold into the Mexican market for the first time, to service the country’s growing petrochemical industry. The 165t crane was purchased by rental company Grúas Villarreal for the Ethylene XXI plastic production project, set to begin in early 2015 and due to produce more than 1m t of polyethylene annually. General manager Cynthia Villarreal said: "We know we can depend on Manitowoc cranes for complex projects such as the Ethylene XXI. The MLC165 was the best candidate because it's a crane … [Read more...]
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Sennebogen crane builds harbour wall
German construction company Aug. Prien is using a Sennebogen 6130 HD duty cycle crawler crane on a pontoon at a harbour in Hamburg. The 6130 HD is working on the creation of the new Elbbrücke quarter, one part of the ongoing HafenCity Project. This involves around 3,500 sq m of the harbour basin being filled in to produce space for a subway station and building development. This area will be enclosed and protected from the sea by a 160m-long mixed sheet pile wall, with the crane installing the king piles. Conventional ramming was not an … [Read more...]
Liebherr crawler completes steep Alps
A Liebherr LTR 1060 crawler crane has tackled the 40% gradients of the Swiss Alps to extend a railway tunnel. Switzerland-based crane company Clausen Kran used the LTR 1060 to navigate the steep inclines and tight bends at an altitude of 2,020m, to extend a tunnel on the Gornergrat railway in Zermatt, in the Wallis region of Switzerland. The tunnel is being extended to allow a ski run to be built over it, which will host FIS (International Ski Federation) events. The LTR 1060 completed the 920m route -- which had an ascent of 180m -- … [Read more...]
Liebherr turns assist crane into ballast
Liebherr has introduced a new boom erection concept for crawler cranes, which allows an auxiliary crane to replace the majority of the assembly ballast. The new approach should work particularly well on wind farms, where large amounts of counterweights is needed just to raise the boom, and ballast trailers transport is difficult and expensive. The German company developed the approach for its LR 1600/2 crawler cranes, for applications handling wind farm components that require long booms. In a demonstration given by Liebherr at its … [Read more...]
Sennebogen 690 HD building road tunnel
A Sennebogen 690 HD duty cycle crawler crane is being used as an all purpose crane to assist construction of an underground road system in Singapore. A Sennebogen 690 HD duty cycle crawler crane is being used as an all purpose crane to assist construction of an underground road system in Singapore. Tuksu Engineering & Construction is employing the crane for the Sentosa Gateway Tunnel project, a two-lane one-way road for outgoing traffic from the island of Sentosa, set for completion by the end of 2015. The 90t Sennebogen 690 HD crane … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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