Refurbished Lock Gate Successfully Installed At Gambsheim Rhine Lock READ YOUR FREE COPY HERE: https://moveitmagazine.com/2024/02/06/refurbished-lock-gate-successfully-installed-at-gambsheim-rhine-lock/ After ten months of repairs, a refurbished lock gate at the Gambsheim Rhine lock in France, situated on Europe’s most crucial waterway, was successfully reinstalled last autumn. The intricate operation was carried out by MSG Krandienst GmbH, a company based in Kehl, Baden-Württemberg, using advanced Liebherr mobile cranes. The installation posed numerous challenges due to the limited working area, significant distances between cranes, and a gate weighing 84 tonnes. Christian Spreuer, in charge of project planning at MSG, highlighted the complexity of the task, particularly with ongoing renovation work restricting crane movement. The Gambsheim Rhine lock, which facilitates the passage of nearly 100 ships daily, is undergoing a comprehensive four-year renovation. This involves lifting out and reinstalling massive lock gates, a process requiring precision and expertise. During the recent installation, space constraints necessitated a complex lifting process with the Liebherr cranes. The meticulous maneuvering of the gate demanded intense focus from crane operators Klaus Himmelsbach and Ralf Göltzer. The use of innovative technology, including the LICCON work planner, facilitated the smooth execution of the operation. With plans to continue renovation work until 2026, MSG Krandienst GmbH will remain involved, supported by their fleet of Liebherr cranes. #MSGKrandienst #Liebherr #MoveItMagazine

Versailles-Inspired Eco-District ‘Parc Du Lac’ Takes Shape With Liebherr READ YOUR FREE COPY HERE: https://moveitmagazine.com/2023/12/05/versailles-inspired-eco-district-parc-du-lac-takes-shape-with-liebherr/ An eco-friendly residential district, named ‘Parc du Lac,’ is underway near Versailles, France, on historic grounds featuring a 17th-century canal from the Palace of Versailles’ former water supply system. Liebherr tower cranes, including models such as the 340 EC-B 16 and 205 EC-B 10, are actively constructing energy-efficient buildings on ten hectares of land near the ‘Lac de la Sourderie’ lake in Voisins-le-Bretonneux. Cobat Constructions, the responsible construction company, utilizes seven Liebherr tower cranes with distinctive blue and red paintwork. The project, initiated in April 2021, is set for completion in 2024, providing more than 500 apartments, commercial spaces, and public facilities, including a crèche, community center, and sports center. The cranes, operational since June 2022, boast hook heights ranging from 40 to 75 meters, with lifting capacities of up to 16 tonnes. The historic canal at the heart of the Parc-du-Lac district is a well-preserved remnant of the Palace of Versailles’ gardens’ water supply system, adding a unique historical touch to this modern residential development, strategically located 25 kilometers from Paris and ten kilometers from Versailles. #Liebherr #TowerCranes #CobatConstructions #MoveItMagazine

ATS Cranes Lifts Five Bridge Sections For A3 Expansion In Luxembourg READ YOUR FREE COPY HERE:https://moveitmagazine.com/2023/10/23/ats-cranes-lifts-five-bridge-sections-for-a3-expansion-in-luxembourg/ ATS Cranes, a branch of Steil Kranarbeiten in Trier, together with their partners, accomplished a significant feat in late September 2023. They were awarded the contract to widen several bridges on the bustling A3 motorway that connects Luxembourg and France. The Pont Berchem bridge was one of these structures. The A3 expansion to six lanes, including a hard shoulder and an exit lane to the Aire de Berchem Quest service area, necessitated the creation of a new bridge. This remarkable bridge spans 85 meters without any supporting pillars, presenting a challenging task for Frederic Kleinhans, Operations Manager at ATS Cranes in Frisange, Luxembourg. Using their Liebherr LTM 1650-8.1 and LTM 1300-6.3 cranes, ATS Cranes had to rotate five girders weighing between 87 and 92 tonnes by 90 degrees before installing them onto the abutments. The meticulous planning of the crane positions was crucial, as the 90-degree rotation and placement had to be executed in a single operation. The relatively new LTM 1650-8.1 crane, equipped with a 45.3-meter boom, a 17.5-meter radius, and 180 tonnes of ballast, played a central role in the nighttime construction. The LTM 1300-6.3 crane, ballasted with 94 tonnes, had a 29.4-meter boom and a 15.3-meter radius. Both cranes were operated by experienced professionals who demonstrated exceptional precision during the challenging slewing process, with the massive steel girders passing just centimeters from the cranes’ luffing cylinders. The entire operation took place over a weekend, benefiting from good weather and minimal wind conditions. Tandem lifts are not only impressive but also complex to plan. ATS/Steil used their CAD software to calculate and visualize various set-up configurations and boom combinations based on factors like footprint, overhangs, payloads, start and end radius, and ground pressure. This meticulous planning ensured that the construction site setup was precisely executed without on-site measurements during the night. Frederic Kleinhans commended his highly motivated and well-trained team for their dedication and expertise, highlighting their ability to complete the demanding task with the utmost precision. The last girder was successfully placed into position at 3 am on a Sunday morning. #ATSCranes #Liebherr #LTM1650-8.1 #LTM1300-6.3 #MoveitMagazine

Mediaco Secures Major Swiss Acquisition READ YOUR FREE COPY HERE: https://moveitmagazine.com/2023/07/26/mediaco-secures-major-swiss-acquisition/ Mediaco has taken a significant step in its European and international growth strategy with the recent confirmation of its acquisition of Matthey-Petit SA, a prominent Swiss lifting company. The roots of Matthey-Petit SA SA trace back to 1927 when Arthur Matthey founded a transport company. Over the years, the company ventured into lifting and exceptional transport under the leadership of Claude Matthey, particularly through the acquisition of Petit Levage in 1991. Currently, Matthey-Petit Levage boasts an impressive fleet of 110 pieces of equipment, including 25 cranes ranging from 40 to 500 tons (Terex AC500), 4 Liebherr MK cranes with capacities from 88 to 140 tons, and 2 Spierings AT6 cranes. The company operates from two locations, Geneva and Lausanne, ensuring effective service coverage. With an annual turnover of 15 million euros, Matthey-Petit SA operates a modern fleet consisting of 25 cranes, 23 tractors, 52 heavy trailers for exceptional transports, and 11 truck-mounted cranes capable of lifting up to 120T/m. The acquisition of Matthey-Petit SA represents a significant strategic move for Mediaco, a family-owned and independent group based in Marseille. It not only fortifies the company’s presence abroad but also complements its existing four agencies in Germany, established between 2015 and 2020. This acquisition underlines Mediaco’s strong determination and ambition for international growth. Looking ahead, Mediaco plans to expand its Swiss subsidiary by acquiring new equipment in 2024, including 5 cranes ranging from 60 to 450 tons, 3 truck-mounted cranes with capacities up to 145t/m, and two complementary mobile tower cranes known as “MK.” A comprehensive development plan encompassing organic and external growth will be implemented to support the growth of Matthey-Petit Levage in Switzerland and offer customers the latest and most efficient machinery available in the market. To facilitate this expansion, the group has announced the recruitment of 20 new employees within the next 18 months. The integration of Matthey-Petit Levage’s 65 employees into the Mediaco group has been met with enthusiasm, and the company extends a warm welcome to its new collaborators, who join the existing workforce of 2,200 employees. Mr. Claude Matthey will continue to play a pivotal role as an administrator within the company, ensuring a smooth transition. Mediaco, under the leadership of Alexandre-Jacques Vernazza, remains at the forefront in France, excelling in the domains of lifting, handling, and industrial transfers. With a nationwide network of 90 agencies and an international presence, the family-owned group has experienced remarkable growth, surpassing 200% in less than a decade. Presently, Mediaco employs 2,200 people and boasts an extensive fleet of 3,000 pieces of equipment, including 850 cranes with capacities ranging from 30 to 1,200 tons. The group’s overall turnover stands at an impressive 425 million euros, with lifting and handling activities accounting for 380 million euros, positioning Mediaco as the third-largest crane operator in Europe. #Mediaco #Matthey-Petit #cranes #MoveItMagazine

LTM 1650-8.1 Used By Foselev To Dismantle Port Crane READ YOUR FREE COPY HERE: https://moveitmagazine.com/2023/04/11/ltm-1650-8-1-used-by-foselev/ Foselev SA, a French crane rental contractor, has successfully dismantled an ageing port crane in Port-La-Nouvelle on the Mediterranean using its most powerful telescopic crane, the Liebherr LTM 1650-8.1. The crane had an 80-metre telescopic boom and Y-guying, which made it capable of handling individual components weighing up to 122 tonnes. The port, which is the third largest in France on the Mediterranean, handles a variety of goods such as wheat, fertiliser, coal, and oil. Three modern Liebherr mobile port cranes, including one LHM 280 and two LHM 420 models, now handle bulk and general cargo, rendering the ageing double jib crane over 30 metres in height obsolete. The port authority commissioned Foselev SA, a nationwide rental company employing over 2,500 people with a fleet of 920 vehicles, including a large number of Liebherr mobile cranes, to complete the task. Its Foselev Sud Ouest outlet based in Port-La-Nouvelle coordinated the operation. The LTM 1650-8.1, Foselev’s most powerful telescopic crane, was selected for the complex job, and its T5Y configuration made it perfect for dismantling the crane components. The crane’s 80-metre telescopic boom and Y-guying demonstrated their strengths during the job, and the heaviest single component, the counterweight of the double jib crane, weighed 122 tonnes. The job was completed on schedule at the end of February 2023, satisfying the port authority. The Liebherr LTM 1650-8.1 mobile crane delivers top lifting capacities on eight axles with telescopic boom lengths of 54 or optionally 80 metres. With lattice extensions, it can achieve lifting heights of up to 152 metres and radii of up to 112 metres. Thierry Volatier from the relevant Foselev outlet, which coordinated the crane job, commented: “To achieve the low support pressure of 6 t/sq m required by the port authority, we had to reduce the surface pressure, so a 21 sq m support plate was placed under each of the four outriggers of the LTM 1650-8.1. The strong wind (Tra Montagne) was a challenge with speeds reaching up to 100 km/h. Although the Liebherr crane is designed and approved to operate in higher wind speeds, we suspended work for a few days for safety reasons.” # FoselevSA #Liebherr #Cranes #LTM1650-8.1 #MoveItMagazine

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LIEBHERR HELPS TO BUILD “ARBORETUM” READ YOUR FREE COPY HERE: https://moveitmagazine.com/2022/12/01/liebherr-helps-to-build-arboretum/ “Arboretum”, a park with 1,000 planted trees and modern workplaces surrounded by an abundance of wood is the vision for Europe’s largest timber campus in Nanterre near Paris. Ten Liebherr EC-B series tower cranes are involved in the 650 million Euro project designed to create a new connection between nature and the workplace and is sustainable thanks to its solid wood construction. The “Arboretum” project on the banks of the Seine will provide 125,000 square metres of office and service space and will be mostly built of solid wood. The offices are set to be spread over five buildings and each of them will be named after a tree: Almond, Pine, Cedar, Fir and Spruce. A park, a fruit and vegetable garden for the use of campus restaurants, and two renovated industrial buildings will complete the area. Measures designed to reduce the site’s carbon footprint include the reuse of materials, bioclimatic architecture and a geothermal system that will cover up to 80 percent of heating and cooling requirements . GCC, a longstanding customer of Liebherr, has two 220 EC-B 10s, two 250 EC-B 10s, one 250 EC-B 12, two 285 EC B 12s, two 340 EC-B 12s and one 370 EC-B 12 in operation on the project. The jibs in use are between 47.5 and 60 metres in length. Hook heights range from 41 to 59 metres. As a result of these configurations and their flat-top design, the cranes can rotate above each other without encountering any problems. The transport and assembly-optimised cranes can, depending on the model, lift a maximum of ten or twelve tonnes. A 280 EC-H 12 high-top crane is additionally in use for the construction of the service centre. Having as many as ten cranes on a construction site requires precise planning for efficient site operation. The top-slewing cranes, which will remain in operation until mid-2023, have to be coordinated with one another so that they don’t interfere with each other’s lifts. To ensure optimal safety, all cranes are equipped with an anti-collision system from the French manufacturer AMCS Technologies. The machines also include LiUP operator lifts, which particularly benefit crane operators and service engineers working at high hook heights, as is the case here. LiUP is designed to transport two people or a load of 200 kilograms. It gives crane operators quick access to their workplace and spares service engineers a strenuous climb during maintenance work. Precise positioning The construction of the new office buildings involves 20,000 cubic metres of wood from sustainably managed forests, as well as 55,000 cubic metres of concrete. All loads, some of which weigh several tonnes, have to be moved, and this is where the Liebherr tower cranes come in. The top-slewing cranes are being used for positioning timber and concrete elements such as posts, beams, columns, staircases and lifts. This work is supported by the Micromove fine positioning mode. The assistance system makes perfect use of Liebherr’s own high-performance drives so that loads are moved with precision over the course of several minutes and positioned with accuracy. This protects precast filigree concrete parts and existing constructions on site. Comprehensive service Most of the cranes are new machines that GCC has secured under a leasing agreement. “Leasing means that customers always benefit from the latest cranes,” explains Sébastien Chalvet, Liebherr Key Account Manager for the Île-de-France region. Liebherr-Grues à Tour is responsible for overall fleet management, “Working this way ensures that cranes are perfectly maintained for maximum availability, and that we can guarantee our customers the highest possible safety standards.” #Liebherr #TowerCranes #EC-B #Arboretum #MoveItMagazine

A PERFECTLY PLANNED NIGHT JOB READ YOUR FREE COPY HERE: https://moveitmagazine.com/2022/11/24/a-perfectly-planned-night-job/ The Tadano CC 38.650-1 crawler crane has performed exceptionaly when lifting a 250 tonne bridge during the night in the city of Hazebrouck, located in the north of France. This intervention was a subject to critical deadlines and Sarens’ project manager, Koen Rooms, wanted to leave nothing to chance: “That’s why we did a test lift the day before the planned response; This took place without any problem and validated all the preliminary calculations that we had carried out. We thus had the green light for the actual lifting operation scheduled for the next day, for which we had very little time.” It was therefore necessary to avoid at all costs the slightest delay during this intervention, from the assembly of the crane to its dismantling and evacuation, including the lifting operation itself. The site was indeed in the city center, at the station of the small town of Hazebrouck, located in the north of France. The 75 m long and 250 ton pedestrian bridge, planned to connect the station to a car park, had to be raised “in one piece” above eight railway tracks, moved, turned and finally placed on its foundations. To this end, the high-voltage lines above the tracks had to be de-energized for the duration of the intervention. “For this lifting operation, we opted for our Tadano CC 38.650-1 crane and equipped it in Superlift configuration with a 54 m jib, because it can reach exceptional load capacities. Plus, its compact design makes it easy to mount and move, even in the tightest of spaces,” says Koen Rooms. In order to disrupt traffic in the city as little as possible during the lifting operation, it was scheduled at night, over a weekend. Already the previous week, the Sarens team transported the crane to the construction site where they erected it in the space of 4 days in an SSL configuration, as well as a traffic lane made from wooden planks. Five hours lifting operation In order to be able to lift the bridge smoothly and avoid any damage, the Sarens team had developed special slings for the transom; these slings were used to lift the bridge. “The hoists made lifting rings unnecessary and not only helped us reduce assembly time, but also contributed to better control of the lifting operation.” This optimal preparation enabled the Sarens team to position the bridge on its foundations in just five hours, using the Tadano CC 38.650 crawler crane. “The crane had to lift the bridge to a height of 6 meters, within a working radius of 27 meters, and travel a total distance of 16 meters – a demanding task which the Tadano crane performed with flying colors”, summarizes Koen Room, with satisfaction at the end of the successfully completed project. #Tadano #CrawlerCrane #CC38650 #Superlift #Sarens #MoveItMagazine

LARGE ORDER FOR TADANO ALL TERRAIN CRANES FROM SARENS READ YOUR FREE COPY HERE: https://moveitmagazine.com/2022/11/18/large-order-for-tadano-all-terrain-cranes-from-sarens/ Sarens has placed an order for 24 Tadano all terrain cranes and Tadano E-Packs for their different European subsidiaries such as Belgium, Netherlands, France, Poland, and UK as well as for their Australian operations. The order includes six units each of the Tadano AC 3.055-1, AC 4.080-1 and AC 5.130-1, three units AC 4.100-4L, one AC 5.160-1, one AC 5.220L-1 and one AC 5.250-1. In addition, the order package is supplemented by six E-Packs for use with the AC 3.055-1 and AC 4.080-1 cranes. “We selected Tadano all terrain cranes because they are simply the benchmark for us in terms of performance and reliability in many areas of their respective classes,” comments Jan L Sarens, Group Equipment Trade Manager at Sarens. #Sarens #Tadano #AllTerrainCranes #MoveItMagazine

SARENS - Picture Of The Month 😎💙 PROJECT DETAILS: Dismantle an existing Goliath gantry crane and replace it with a new, larger one. LOCATION: St. Nazaire, France EQUIPMENT: CC 6800 + M1500 + LTM 1160 + RT 780, SMLT tower system 5800 and 3500, 152 axle lines of SPMTs, 4 x 650-tonne strandjacks, 2 skidding systems #project #france #SARENS #teamblue #innovative #thecraneclub

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