Search Results: 'liebherr'

Liebherr builds in Bucharest
15 December, 2008
Liebherr has supplied six tower cranes for the City Gate Project in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.

Construction in Istanbul relies on tower cranes
12 December, 2008
Istanbul’s skyline is being changed forever as the boom for shopping and residential towers continues.

Liebherr predicts 'consolidation phase' in 2009
10 December, 2008
Although German construction equipment manufacturer Liebherr predicts that its total sales in 2008 will reach EUR 8.4bn, an increase of 10% over 2007, it has hinted that sales will fall in 2009. In particular, tower crane sales have already begun to weaken.

?The kangaroo of the crane world??
08 December, 2008
Australian pick and carry cranes are like the continent's well-known marsupials: they are rather funny-looking, but they are good at what they do and wholly adapted to their environment. Greg Keane reviews the history and the future of these multi-tasking articulated cranes

Crane rental in China
08 December, 2008
Although most cranes are still bought by end users, an increasing proportion are being bought by crane rental companies from domestic players, and by joint ventures funded by international firms keen to get in on the action, reports Will Dalrymple

In our fleet: Irga Group, Brazil
08 December, 2008
Lupércio Torres Neto, president of Irga Group, talks to Cranes Today about his company and its fleet

K10000 rises again
08 December, 2008
The contender for the world's largest tower crane, Krøll's K10000, has been erected for a plant upgrade at Canada tar sands firm Syncrude. Will Dalrymple reports

Tall ship cranes
08 December, 2008
Potain and Liebherr have both recently supplied giant tower cranes to shipyards.

Review of the year, 2008
08 December, 2008
At the start of 2008, it looked like the crane industry was set for a sustained boom. Despite a little local difficulty in the US residential construction market, company results for crane builders and rental firms pointed ever upwards. However, a January poll of Cranes Today readers found that almost half of respondents only expected the boom to last one more year. After twelve months of economic turmoil, it looks like those readers may have been right to have doubts. Will North reports

Leader: Eat my black smoke
08 December, 2008
I have to confess something. Now that the price of fuel has come down, there is nothing better I like to do than opening up the throttle on my Subaru Impreza and screaming down the motorway.

Sarens and Nass to speak at Middle East Cranes
03 December, 2008
Ludo Sarens, CEO of Belgium's famous heavylift contractor, will speak at Cranes Today's Middle East Cranes conference in Dubai, 24-25 February 2009. He will speak with Sami Nass, of Bahrain's AA Nass Group, about the 10-year-old joint venture between the two, Sarens-Nass.

Towers tower over Bauma China
28 November, 2008
Tower crane manufacturers at Bauma China have set their sights beyond the boundaries of China. Most of these exhibitors have export managers and have already sold some cranes outside of China, although rarely to the USA or Europe. There were large luffing-jib, flat-top and saddle-jib towers.

Crawler breaks ground on HK government buildings
21 November, 2008
A Liebherr HS 855 HD Litronic duty cycle crawler crane equipped with 25 t free fall winches is currently carrying out bored pile excavation at the Tamar site at Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour.

Fagioli scales it up
06 November, 2008
It all looks fairly ordinary until you see how tiny the cars and people are. Fagioli was intimately involved in one of the biggest alternative lifting projects ever, on a giant offshore regasification terminal assembled in huge modules in Spain. Will Dalrymple reports

Fagioli moves into heavy lift
16 October, 2008
Italian special transport firm Fagioli has bought a 750t capacity crawler crane, in a move to expand its scope of services to include heavy lift.

All in a night's work
14 October, 2008
Fagioli used SPMTs to install a motorway bridge in a single night??. Mike Clark reports.

Nenzing fits crawlers with railings as standard
14 October, 2008
Liebherr Nenzing Crane Co. is now fitting handrails as standard on top of crawler cranes delivered to US customers to reduce the risk of operatives falling while climbing over the crane.

TNT Crane and Rigging
13 October, 2008
TNT Crane and Rigging has been hiring cranes in Texas for 25 years. Co-founder Randy Dobbs reviews the company's history, and new investor Mike Appling describes future plans.

Mammoet's giant Liebherr helps build huge Malaysian platform
10 October, 2008
Netherlands-based Mammoet is using a 1,350t capacity Liebherr LR 11350 crawler crane to help build the infrastructure for an offshore gas platform being constructed by Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering at its shipyard in Johor.

Liebherr extends 100 tonner
07 October, 2008
Liebherr has launched an upgraded version of its four axle 100t capacity mobile. The new LTM 1100-4.2 adds 8m to the boom, compared to the LTM 1100-4.1, launched in 2003.