Šoštanj, Slovenia
Austrian crane firms Prangl and Felbermayr, and German firm Breuer & Wasel, have all played a role in the construciton of a new power plant in Šoštanj, Slovenia.

Felbermayr lifted two gigantic pipes inside the cooling tower of the recently built Block 6 unit at the Šoštanj power plant in Slovenia. To complete the job, which was commissioned by Breuer & Wasel, the company used a Terex AC 1000 as its main crane.

In order to install two pipes, the AC 1000 all-terrain crane had to work together with a 500t assist crane inside a cooling tower of the power plant.

The AC 1000 was configured with a 42m luffing jib, 13m outriggers, and a counterweight of 108t for the lifts. Telescopic segments one through three were extended 90% each, while segment four was extended 45%. This set up provided the AC 1000 with a total boom length of 84 meters.

A tandem lift and a single lift, were performed by the team, the tandem lift was first: A 40m-long 37t plastic pipe was lifted to a height of 64.5m over a protruding edge of a height of 56m. Working at a radius of 28.6m, the AC 1000 picked up the load in tandem with the 500t Liebherr assist crane.

During the lift, the radius was reduced to 23m and the pipe was rotated 45° at a hook height of 64.5m, then it was set down on a concrete pipe at the center of the cooling tower.

The AC 1000 took on the second lift by itself: This time, the crane had to lift a 12m 25t plastic pipe. Once this pipe was attached to the spreader, the load at a radius of 23.7m. When it had lifted to a height of 78m, the AC 1000 was able to set down the second pipe on top of the first one. The particular challenge in this case was that crane had to hold the pipe in position for five hours until the special adhesive required to join the two pipes was fully cured.

Austrian hire firm Prangl also worked on the power station with the insertion of 14 tanks. The company had to lift the individual industrial boilers into a multi-storey power plant hall using a wide array of different methods, through three insertion openings, and then position them with pinpoint accuracy. The operation was preceded by numerous project and feasibility studies.

Kazan, Russia
Russian rental firm SOP & G Recently finished the assemby of metal constructions at the Kazan-Arena sports stadium in Kazan, Russia. The company has been working on the project for almost two years and used several large crawler cranes including the Liebherr LR 1750 -2 pcs. and Liebherr LR 1350/1 – 1 ps on the job.

For the erection of the metal construction, which weighed around 500t and SOP&G have used two Liebherr crawlers the LR 11350 and LR 1750, as well as two Liebherr mobile cranes the LTM 1350 and LTM 1045.

The stadium is almost ready and the first event which is the XXVI International University Games this summer, it will also host games at 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Warsaw, Poland
A Maeda Mini Crane was put to work on the site of Zlota 44 in Warsaw, the most expensive apartment block building in Poland.

The apartments situated at Zlota 44 are being built by Orco Property Group and when completed the building will reach a height of 192m, making it the third highest skyscraper in the capital.

Work on the outside elevation was being carried out by Kyotec Polska with the help of a Maeda MC285 CRM(E) Mini Crane. This compact crane was delivered to each floor via the trade lift.