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Spierings runs into difficulty
Five companies within Spierings Holding, owner of Spierings Kranen the Dutch based mobile self erecting crane group, have been placed into administration, following a court hearing earlier this week. Employees were informed yesterday. The court agreed on the bankruptcy of the companies while Spierings Kranen will remain in business although it [...]
Liebherr booked €200 million at Bauma
Liebherr has said that it took €200 million worth of orders at last months Bauma exhibition. A statement from the company said: The Liebherr stand at Bauma 2010 “The ‘Bauma’ has given additional stimulus to the economic upturn that was already evident in this business sector. The new Liebherr stand met with widespread approval, [...]
Derrick crane 200 DR 5/10: The dismantling specialist
Derrick cranes are ideal for lifting very heavy loads, and are often needed to lower cranes that have been operated on tall buildings. In Seattle, USA, a 355-mt fly-jib crane was taken out of a 36-storey office block by a Liebherr 200 DR 5/10 Litronic derrick crane. Its intelligent PLC system monitored all crane movements until this high-level [...]
Sanghvi orders 60 cranes from Sany
India-based crane rental company Sanghvi Movers has ordered 60 new cranes from Chinese manufacturer Sany Heavy Industries. As India's largest crane rental company, Sanghvi already has a fleet of more than 350 units up to 800 tonnes capacity. Sany will supply from its lattice boom crawler crane series as follows: 10 units 630 tonne capacity; 22 [...]
Mammoet adds more Kobelco crawlers
Heavy lift specialist Mammoet has added five 250 tonne capacity Kobelco CKE2500-2 crawler cranes to its fleet for oil and energy-related projects worldwide. They are to be supplied with main booms up to 91.4 m, together with 61 m luffing boom and 61m luffing jib configurations, as well as tilt cabs. Between them, they are destined for Brazil, the [...]
Wemotec and Palfinger to launch spider crane
German based crane, access and telehandler rental and engineering company Wemotec, has teamed up with Palfinger to produce a new long boom specialist spider crane. Wemotec's new SMK320.67 spider crane The new crane, the SMK320.67, (SMK = SpezialMontageKran which translates as special installation crane) has stowed dimensions of 4.87 [...]
Liebherr makes strong foothold in Kingdom
JEDDAH: The old saw that necessity is the mother of invention was never more true than in the case of the German crane manufacturer, Liebherr. In 1947 German master builder Hans Liebherr felt that life would be far easier for builders if they could take a crane to a building site and erect it without all the crew and fuss that accompanied the [...]
New dimension of large diameter bearings from Liebherr
Liebherr has achieved a new scale of size in the manufacture of components for cranes in the Offshore sector: on March the 8th, the roller bearing ROD 10005 has been delivered for the first time – which with a weight of a good 25 tonnes is the heaviest single-piece large diameter bearing in the history of the company. The ROD 10005 slewing [...]
Ezra buys large offshore cranes
Singapore-based marine equipment and supplies provider Ezra Marine Services Pte Ltd has placed an order for two MacGregor active heave-compensated subsea knuckle-jib cranes. The order includes a 150t SWL crane with an under-deck-mounted winch with a 3,000m wire. It will be installed on a deepwater anchor-handling towing/supply vessel and [...]
Dubai Death Wish
Today’s Death Wish comes from Dubai and is the subject of a safety alert issued by Buildsafe UAE. A steel fixer wishing to move from one side of a large site to another persuaded a tower crane operator to give him a ride….on the hook – and he didn’t just move him along at a low level… but took him to a considerable height.Fortunately [...]
