The crane will be joined by another EUR 6m worth of equipment currently on order. The company has spent a further EUR 9m on equipment in the past two years.
William O’Brien Plant Hire has depots in Cork, Limerick and Waterford. The company employs more than 80 people.
William O’Brien Jr. continues the 50-year-old family business started by his father. “Central to our current investment plans are a recent land purchase at Little Island which will be used to build a new state-of-the-art maintenance facility for our fleet of vehicles. We expect construction to begin on this project in April next year with an expected completion date of November 2009”.
The EUR 1m Spierings crane takes about 15 minutes to erect once on-site. It has 60m jib and 36m high mast, and can lift a maximum of 5.5t at 42m.
Spierings SK 2400-ATF for William O’Brien of Ireland Spierings SK 2400-ATF for William O’Brien of Ireland