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INTERNATIONAL AND SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT
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OCTOBER 2013
Siemens in Baldwins expansion
UK crane rental company
Baldwins Crane Hire has
acquired a 500 tonne capacity
Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1
wheeled mobile telescopic
crane on a seven year finance
lease from Siemens Financial
Services (SFS). The lease is for
approximately GB£2.6 million
(US$ 3.9 million).
The agreement follows
another finance lease deal
made with SFS in July this
year for three Nooteboom
trailers costing GB£340,000
($510,000).
Richard Baldwin said,
“With the financial support of
SFS we are able to grow our
crane fleet’s profile in order to
meet the diverse needs of our
customers as well as to expand
our business.”
Brian Foster, head of
industry at SFS, said, “We have
already supported Baldwins
Wolff towers in helicopter lift
Three Wolff tower cranes have
been assembled using the
lifting capability of a helicopter
at an Alpine construction site
in Ischgl, Austria.
The WK 5015s were
assembled by Silvrettaseilbahn
to help with the expansion of a
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Transport company Van der
Vlist has helped with the
assembly of two pieces of
the Botlek bridge. The bridge
is currently undergoing
construction in Rotterdam,
Netherlands. The parts that
make up the structure are
referred to as sinker pieces
and measure 100 metres long
and weigh 265 tonnes each,
a company spokesperson
explained. They will be
used to hold power cables
underneath the bridge.
For the project Van der
Vlist was contracted to
take delivery of the bridge
sections and store them at
the Moerdijk terminal. After
being delivered, the sections
were then lifted from the port
by three floating cranes and
transported to the bridge site
for installation. The bridge is
due to be completed in 2015
and will be one of the largest
movable bridges in the world,
a spokesperson added.
ski resort in the Alps,
2,812 metres above sea level.
To accommodate the
difficult site conditions, the
components of the saddle jib
tower cranes were transported
by truck to Fimbatal, 1,950
m above sea level. They
were then transported and
assembled into position piece
by piece using a heavy lift
helicopter owned by Heliswiss
International. Work for the
towers included erecting two
on the acquisition of mobile
cranes in the past and
are delighted to further
our cooperation.”
The 8-axle LTM 1500-8.1
has an 84 metre 7-section
telescopic boom with
maximum reach of 91 m when
configured with a lattice jib.
The wheeled mobile telescopic
crane will join two more
LTM 1500-8.1 units already in
the fleet.
Rothmund gets three Terex ATs
Crane rental company
Rothmund, based in
Pforzheim, Germnay, has taken
delivery of three Terex all
terrain cranes.
The order includes a 5-axle
Terex AC 100, a 140 tonne
capacity AC 140 Compact and
a 6-axle AC 250-1 all terrain
crane.
Heiko Brückner, general
manager at Rothmund, said,
“For nine years we have had a
Terex AC 100 all terrain crane
and we have been pleased with
its performance. We decided
on the AC 250-1 because of its
performance and its massive 80
metre telescopic boom. The AC
140 Compact factor was, as the
name says, the compactness for
a crane of this class.”
The cranes were handed
over at Terex in Zweibrücken,
Germany, to Heiko Brückner.
Crane expert Peter Klumpp
and crane driver Achim Teufel
also attended the event.
The all terrains will be
added to Rothmund's
rental fleet.
The helicopter moved 200 tonnes
of crane parts through the air. As
the individual weights could not
exceed five tonnes this required
extensive planning
The Wolffkran assembly
team (from left to right): Josef
Neuhold, Roland Utringer, Daniel
Kindhauser, Robert Seidler
Eckhard Rothmund and Heiko
Brückner in front of their
three new Terex cranes
pylons, 64 and 90 m tall, for a
new aerial tramway, a company
spokesperson said.
Engineer Markus Walser,
on the Silvrettaseilbahn board,
said, “Despite being a first, the
tight schedule and the complex
conditions, Wolffkran Austria
coped with the assembly
professionally and without
any problem.”
