Wilbert's new luffer

Wilbert’s new luffer

Wilbert has shown the WT205L e.tronic luffing-jib tower crane. Although the crane uses WT200 mast sections, the rest of the 200tm-class crane is new. It has variable-frequency controls on all motions, 45kW hoisting and luffing motors, and reeving from one to three falls, according to saleswoman Christine Wilbert. Maximum load is 12t, and it can lift 2t out to 60m jib-end. Maximum tower height is 77.8m.

Wilbert’s WT205L tower crane

The company is planning to launch 300tm and 320tm saddle-jib tower cranes this summer. Its largest tower is the 650tm WT650, she said.

The company’s current tower crane production is 50 units per year. Wilbert currently subcontracts out steel fabrication to German, Czech and Polish firms, but this is set to change next year, when it opens a new Waldlaubersheim, Germany factory whose construction begins in May.

Christine Wilbert said that the company, which rents out cranes as well as manufacturing them, hopes to have a Wilbert-only tower crane fleet in three to five years, depending on the cranes’ popularity.

Wilbert’s WT205L tower crane Wilbert’s WT205L tower crane

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