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TO INCREASE FUTURE ROAD CAPACITIES, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW TUNNELS IS A NECESSARY STEP. IN ITALY, THE 750 KM LONG AUTOSTRADA A1 IS IN THE PROCESS OF A MAJOR UPGRADE. A CHALLENGING MISSION WITH SEVERAL TUNNEL PROJECTS, AMONGST OTHERS THE ONE CALLED ‘SANTA LUCIA’. A KEY POINT INCLUDING ...
Myshak Crane & Rigging utilized its entire fleet of Hydra-Slide hydraulic skidding equipment in addition to various other heavy rigging tools to changeout a horizontal converter at a fertilizer production plant in Alberta, Canada recently. The old and new converters weighed 514 tonnes and ...
Collet’s third girder bridge project in a four week period, this time the team were off to Willenhall Substation. Having already delivered Cellarhead and Lovedean in the previous weeks, this would be the third of their August National Grid projects, and with the 170 Tonne transformer ...
ALE has achieved another world first and provided a bespoke engineering solution to heighten the prototype of one the world’s highest wind towers, the Nabralift self-erecting tower, with limited use of cranes for significant time and cost savings in Navarra, Spain. The leading global ...
As part of a collaborative scope for one of the biggest offshore wind farms in the world, ALE and their Conbit operation have reached the half-way milestone for the marine transportation, sea-fastening, load-out and ballasting of over 100 transition pieces (TPs) for Ørsted’s Hornsea Project ...
ALE has utilised its experienced team and in-house design expertise to complete the heavylifting activities for the RRS Sir David Attenborough the new polar research vessel for Britain. As part of the primary contractor’s, Cammell Laird, full turnkey ship build of the high-profile polar vessel, ...
ALE has utilised the largest-ever capacity cranes in Iraq while performing the heavy lifting works at the Karbala Refinery Project. The quick mobilisation of the cranes has also enabled ALE to optimise the overall project schedule. As part of a bigger scope involving several contracts for ...
ALE has utilised its experience of transportation over long distances and its international branch network to transport the heaviest convoy in Saudi Arabia. A total of five slug catchers will be transported internationally through built-up areas and across vast distances. In July, ALE completed ...
ALE has used its innovative Mega Jack system to lift both halves of the main arch of Matagarup Bridge in Perth, Australia. ALE executed the complex lifting and installation works for two 400t steel wishbones that form the large central arch of the bridge, with the completed arch reaching 72m ...
A dozen wireless Straightpoint (SP) load cells were added to a custom-built lifting frame that utilized 12 pick points to raise a pair of non-identical refinery modules at a major brownfield project at Saint John in New Brunswick, Canada recently. The 100-tonne capacity Radiolink plus ...
ALE has successfully completed a bridge launch in Spain using time and cost-effective methodology. The steel arch bridge, weighing 2,100t and measuring 200m long, was launched over the Júcar River in Cullera by ALE using SPMTS instead of traditional methods to avoid costly reinforcements. “This ...
Mammoet partnership with Spanish heavy transport specialists Arbegui and Transmodal announced, with the aim to strengthen its presence in the fast-growing Spanish market. As strong market growth in the manufacturing and construction sectors drives a surge in heavy lift and transport ...
On 12th June 2017, Ex-HMAS Sydney was docked at the Western Australian Government owned Australian Marine Complex Common User Facility (AMCCUF) in Henderson, Western Australia. AMC Management, the Facility Manager and Floating Dock Operator, relied on Scheuerle Self-Propelled Modular ...
• Sankyu transports bridge element in the Japanese city of Nagasaki and thus connects the old town to the reconstructed Dejima Island • Newly erected bridge acts as the main entrance to the historical trading post of Dejima The Japanese island of Dejima was a fan-shaped, artificial island in ...
• Mammoet transports a 1,200 tonne bunker of the New Hollandic Waterline on 88 Scheuerle SPMT (Self-Propelled Modular Transporter) axle lines • With the help of the Scheuerle SPMTs, the bunker is transformed into a “Objet Trouvé” – an object which has been playfully placed at ...
In the Venezuelan Orinoco Oil Belt, the expansion of La Cruz refinery – owned by Petroleos de Venezuela SA – is steadily progressing. As part of the Deep Conversion Project, the operating company has been continually expanding the oil production in the state of Anzoátegui, 300 kilometers ...
With 24 SPMT (Self-Propelled Modular Transporter) axle lines, Transportes y Gruas Aguado, Spain, expanded its existing fleet of vehicles in mid-2016. Since this time, the vehicles from Scheuerle (TII Group) have been permanently in use – most recently assigned for transporting two ...
Industrial lifting specialist Pooler-LMT has been appointed the UK Agent for Enerpac Integrated Solutions including their range of Hydraulic Gantries, self propelled modular trailers and hydraulic strand jacking systems. Pooler-LMT joins a global network of Enerpac distributors, a selection of ...
Enerpac has been awarded a contract from Holtec International, a diversified energy technology company, to design, fabricate and commission a 170 metric ton Vertical Cask Transporter. The transporter combines the lifting capability of a hydraulic gantry with the flexibility of a self-propelled ...
The TII Group, incorporating SCHEUERLE, NICOLAS, KAMAG and TRATEC attracted a lot of attention with a wide range of innovation during bauma 2016. Technological leadership is the Group´s recipe for success – the new vehicle technologies introduced at bauma 2016 are correspondingly groundbreaking ...
Rapid Response Solutions (RRS) has transported a 56t refuse compactor 150 miles from Aylesford, Kent to Bishop’s Cleeve, Gloucestershire using a four-axle tractor unit and Nooteboom trailer. The Portsmouth, UK-headquartered lifting and transport specialist, which is regularly called upon by ...
For the expansion of the infrastructure for the Cygnus gas field in the North Sea, ALE UK has once again been relying on SCHEUERLE SPMTs. On 168 SPMT axle lines and using a loose coupling mode, a 4,140 t segment of a production platform as well as a total of four support elements with unit […]
Several days ago, a yellow-painted colossus left the SCHEUERLE Fahrzeugfabrik production facility in Pfedelbach and headed to Heilbronn. For the transportation of the ship section transporter with a 800t payload along the route to the harbour great precision was required as the almost eight ...
Situated offshore Sabah, Malaysia in a water depth of 1,854 feet (565 meters), is the Malikai oilfield. Operated by Shell, it is currently being equipped with all necessary infrastructures for exploration. Amongst this infrastructure is also a living quarters module. The module weighs a total ...
ALE has performed a unique relocation of a rock crusher in July at Cliffe Hill quarry in Leicestershire UK. The global heavylift specialists were contracted by Tenova Takraf to relocate a primary crusher, weighing 700t, within the granite quarry operated by Midland Quarry Products. The route ...
ALE and Aertssen Kranen have completed their scope for the Optara project, a nine month project involving the transportation of modules from Spain to Belgium and the installation of the main equipment modules for Tecnicas Reunidas. As part of a joint venture with Aertssen Kranen, who were ...
An alternative logistics solution was ALE’s answer to a power plant component transport challenge on the Carrington Power Station project in the UK. Heavy lift, transport and installation specialist ALE completed a turnkey package to transport and install heavy equipment for the Carrington CCGT ...
Collett & Sons Ltd celebrate the first of many projects to come through their Grangemouth facility. As wind turbine components keep getting bigger the challenge for transport companies and equipment manufacturers to overcome these difficulties gets ever more complicated. Whether onshore or ...
During the recent Innovations Days event, Goldhofer’s handed over its fifth »Faktor 5« high girder bridge to the UK specialist Allelys Heavy Haulage. Company Directors David and Peter Allely chose the name Hector for their high girder bridge, which has a deadweight of 100 tons and a ...