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New website for Techlift
Some days ago international heavy lift consultancy Techlift has launched a new corporate website. The company is based in Prenton, UK, and operates offices in the US and Australia. Techlift offers a worldwide heavy lift, transport & marine consultancy service. The offered services include detailed liftplanning and engineering as well as feasibility studies, heavy lift management, marine and demolition consultancy. The project site shows some very interesting job samples from around the world, working together with some of the best known crane hire companies. To me the new website appears well-arranged and informative: www.techlift.co.uk.
Tags: consultancy - corporate website - Crane hire - engineering - Heavy lift - liftplanning - Techlift
Franz Bracht crane hire in Porta Westfalica
Some days ago the german crane hire company Franz Bracht has opened a new location. Beside the existing 12 locations in North-Rhine-Westphalia they have now established a further facility for mobile cranes in Porta Westfalica, located right beside the Bundesstraße 482. We don't have information yet about the number and type of cranes based at the new facility. Further investments of the company will be executed for new cranes. Amongst several others a crawler crane type 7700 from Sennebogen and a Liebherr telescopic crane LTM 1500-8.1 will be added to the fleet of cranes.
Tags: Crane hire - Franz Bracht - Liebherr - LTM 1500-8.1 - Porta Westfalica - Sennebogen 7700
Ainscough orders first crawler crane
Vertikal.net reports that UK based crane hire company Ainscough has ordered its first crawler crane. At the end of 2009 the leading british crane hire company will add a Terex-Demag CC 2500-1 to its fleet.
Sogecofa acquired by Mediaco
Mediaco, the leading crane hire company of France has acquired its competitor Sogecofa Group. This acquisition covers a fleet of 150 mobile cranes up to 500 tonnes and 400 employees. Including Sogecofa, Mediaco now offers 700 cranes in 70 depots and 2400 workers. Mediaco has increased the company to its nowadays size from six depots with 60 cranes in 1990. The forecast for the turnaround in 2008 is 300 million Euros. In the beginning of 2009 Mediaco expects to take delivery of the Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1
Freo Cranes get Grove Cranes
Freo Cranes from Australia took delivery of the first crane from a big order made at Manitowoc Crane Group. The order covers three models from the Grove crane range: the GMK 4080-1, the GMK 5130-1 and the GMK 5220, which was the first to be delivered now.
Emerson Crane ordered five new Liebherr cranes
Emerson Crane Hire from the UK has ordered five new mobile cranes from Liebherr in Ehingen. In the next 18 months they will take delivery of one unit LTM 1055-3.1, refering to Liebherr the most dominant crane in the 60 to class, one unit of LTM 1090-4.1, an LTM 1100-4.1, an LTM 1130-5.1 and one unit of LTM 1250-6.1. Emerson Crane Hire is servicing the area in and around London.
Tags: Crane hire - Ehingen - Emerson - Liebherr - LTM 1055-3.1 - LTM 1090-4.1 - LTM 1100-4.1 - LTM 1130-5.1 - LTM 1250-6.1
400th Spierings crane for John Sutch Crane Hire
John Sutch Crane Hire of Liverpool has purchased the 400th Spierings truck mounted folding tower crane. The unit an SK599-AT5 was delivered to central Manchester by Leo Spierings, the founder of Spierings, himself. Immediately after the handover the crane went straight to work in the apartment and retail development. This is the fourth Spierings Crane purchased by John Sutch.
Source: KHL.com
Sarens expands in Asia
Belgian lifting giant Sarens has entered into a joint venture with Australian crane rental company Trans-Lift in Australia. The new venture, Sarens Trans-Lift, will offer contracting, crane hire, and special transport. Sarens has operations in about 20 countries around the world. 'The Australian market looks to have a lot of potential with regards to the ongoing and coming investments in the windmill industry,' sales and marketing manager Hendrik Sarens told Cranes Today. Australian power plants and petrochemical plants are investing to bring their operational units to higher emissions standards, he said.
Big cranes included in the venture include the 800t Liebherr LTM1800 AT, 600t Terex-Demag CC2800 crawler, and 250t Hitachi Sumitomo SCX2500 crawler. Trans-Lift Pty started operations in November 2003, when it purchased a 550t Liebherr LG1550 lattice-boom truck crane from Brambles Industrial Services. ''As Trans-Lift Pty Ltd rapidly expanded in became obvious that there was room for a heavy lift and transport company in Australia to go head to head with Lampson,' Sarens Trans-Lift director Jack Leverington told Cranes Today. 'An overall view of the heavy lift industry in Australia shows a shortage of experienced big crane operators, heavy lift supervisors.
One of the attractions to Sarens was their preparedness to bring experienced people to Australia to train our engineers, supervisors, operator and riggers / dogmen on all aspects of heavy lift,' he said. 'At the moment the Australian mining, infrastructure and construction industries are busy and by having access to cranes like the Sarens CC8800 gives us some clout on large projects.' Hendrik Sarens said that the company has joint ownership because 'it is important to keep a homeland presence in the company.'
Also, Sarens has renamed and reorganised its Thailand-based business, which recently won a large contract by Samsung at a Petroleum Authority of Thailand site. Following Sarens' purchase of a majority of shares, the company, formerly known as SES Sarens Equipment Services is now called Sarens Asia. Sarens has provided the company with a 850t Gottwald AK680 lattice-boom truck crane, 300t Terex-Demag CC2000 crawler and 140t Liebherr LTM1140 AT as well as additional crane operators and support staff. Jungmu Suh is general manager, Anthony Banfield is technical-commercial manager and Eric van Mulders is financial controller.
Sarens has also set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Venezuela. The branch, intended to serve only the country, makes the second Sarens presence in South America, after the company's affiliation with Tecmaco Integral in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The fleet consists of relatively small telescopic-boom wheeled mobiles.
Source: Connectingcranes.com
Tags: AK 680 - CC 2800 - Crane hire - Gottwald - Hitachi Sumitomo - LG 1550 - LTM 1800 - Mobile cranes - Sarens - SCX 2500 - Tecmaco Integral
Ainscough buys 41 cranes
The UK's biggest rental company, Ainscough Crane Hire, has bought 37 Liebherr ATs for £12m. Thirty are 55t capacity LTM 1055-3 models from Liebherr Ehingen, plus six 100t capacity LTM 1100-5.1 and two LTM 1220-5.1s. All will be delivered before April 2005. Ainscough has also increased its fleet of mobile tower cranes. Following its purchase of a Spierings SK 599-AT5 self-erecting tower crane earlier this year, Ainscough has bought a used SK 598-AT5 from Spierings, and a used Liebherr MK 80 from UK crane rental firm Commhoist. None of the Liebherr ATs include a wrap-around fly jib. Managing director Martin Ainscough told Cranes Today that there were three reasons for the special request. Operators will not need to work at height when installing the jib section.
Earlier this year, draft UK legislation was published suggesting that those working at height will be required to take extra safety precautions. 'It reduces the risk factor,' Ainscough said. 'One of the problems with wrap-arounds is that they are not used all the time. I believe they are potentially dangerous not if the procedure is followed correctly but, as they are used infrequently, there is a danger of going through the incorrect pin sequence. There have been incidents in the UK where operators have connected the fly jib in the wrong sequence and it has fallen and hurt people.' The order follows Ainscough's criticism of fly jibs for this reason at Cranes Today's Crane Safety conference in June. Third is a weight issue: without the fly jib, the cranes are lighter the jib weighs about 1.5t, according to David Milne, managing director of Liebherr crane and concrete divisions in the UK. The decreased weight will increase fuel economy. The cranes will not, however, be able to travel faster than the 40mph speed limit they do at the moment. Although the UK heavy equipment roading regulations called STGO allow higher speeds for lighter vehicles, the cranes would have to go without counterweight to be able to travel at 50mph on motorways.
Ainscough said that his company will send out the next larger crane to make up the difference with the lack of a fly jib. 'The cranes have 55t capacity and good long booms anyway. And we are finding that a lot of sites these days are so health and safety conscious, and so short on space, that they want a fully-powered boom that extends straight out, and in many cases they will go to the next machine up' to get that, he said. Milne said that cranes are often sold without fly jibs in Continental Europe where the cranes need to be light in order to meet stringent 12t per axle maximum loading travel restrictions.
Source: Connectingcranes.com
Tags: Ainscough - Crane hire - Liebherr - LTM 1055-3.1 - LTM 1100-5.1 - LTM 1220-5.1 - MK 80 - Mobile tower cranes - SK 599 AT5 - Spierings
Terex-Demag in 108m wind power lift contract
A Terex-Demag CC 8800 crawler crane, providing a lifting capacity of up to 1,250t and boom lengths of up to 216m has been used to help build the first German near-shore wind-power project, which has been put into service by wind power installation designer ENOVA. The height of the hub is 108m, rotor blades are 53m in length, and the weight of the steel tower is 850t.
Engineers in charge of the project called upon Belgium-based crane operator Sarens claimed to be the only European company to have a Terex-Demag CC 8800 to help with the assembly. Apart from the sheer dimensions, the location in the middle of the Ems River also constituted a challenge. The crane and all power plant components had to be loaded onto a pontoon in order to complete the assembly.
The tower components were completed first. Subsequently, the plant's engine carrier, generator, hub and rotor blades were mounted at height. For these tasks the crane was configured SSL/ LSL at a system length of 138m. The Superlift counterweight of 400t complemented the 100t central weight at height and the 220t counterweight. Terex-Demag said that, with 92 offshore plants projected in the North Sea, its CC 8800 would play an important role in the future.
Source: Connectingcranes.com
Tags: CC 8800 - Crane hire - Crawler crane - Enova - Sarens - Terex-Demag - Wind Power installation
