Sarens

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

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