A reader has sent us a fascinating video of a job in Zams, Austria, the client, a food company building a supermarket and restaurant, had to install a clear span concrete floor into an existing building. Might it also qualify for our Death Wish series though?
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In the face of extreme challenges presented by Alpine weather and topography, a pair of Saez tower cranes was erected to help construct a new cableway station at Mont Blanc, one of Europe’s highest mountains. IC reports
Swiss crane rental firm Leu used two of its Liebherr mobile cranes to construct a salt storage facility for United Swiss Salt Works (Schweizerische Rheinsalinen).
Duro Felguera has supplied a Linden Comansa flat top tower crane to help build part of its Petronor oil refinery in Muskiz, Spain.
Following extensive trails with higher axle loadings in the UK, off-road tyre specialist Mitas has launched an All Terrain crane tyre, the CR-01 for the replacement tyre market.
Two Manitowoc cranes installed a wind tower in Cleveland, Ohio, over a four-day period earlier this year. Located outside the headquarters of Lincoln Electric, the 443-foot turbine is one of the largest urban wind towers in North America.
The UK’s Tower Crane Register, introduced in 2010, will be abandoned, as recommended in an independent review of health and safety legislation published in November 2011.
Spanish tower crane manufacturer Linden Comansa has announced the world’s largest flat top tower crane range, topped by a 64 tonne model.
At the Liebherr factory site in Ehingen, Germany, a lattice boom crane is towering 150 m above the ground in a form that has never been seen before. At the lower part of the crane the lattice sections are assembled parallel to each other; at the top, the double boom has been joined together to form a single boom.
Proving that no challenge is too large, Boscaro Crane Attachments took on the opportunity to build a custom ordered self dumping bin, which could possibly be the world’s largest under-hook self dumping bin.