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French rental company Dumont Clean Services
has bought a Barin underbridge inspection unit for
work on a number of French road bridges.
The ABC 200, manufactured in Italy and
assembled on a Scania P400 LB 8x2 truck,
provides a main horizontal platform made of
steel and aluminium alloy. It is fitted with an
electronically-operated 4 m alloy lift for operators
to inspect bridge soffits.
The ABC 200 has an under bridge extension
of 20 m and a maximum working depth of 9 m.
Capacity is 550 kg.
DUMONT INVESTS IN BARIN
Lufthansa flies with Genie
German airline Lufthansa has purchased two
Genie Z-34/22 N electric articulating booms
for maintenance of its aircraft at Budapest
Liszt Ferenc International Airport.
The pair were sold by Terex AWP
distributor for Hungry Huntraco Zrt and have
been equipped with specially adapted aircraft
protection packages.The machines have a
working height of 12.52 m and a maximum
horizontal reach of 6.78 m.
“The airport terminal is always busy with
vehicles and machines. Inside the maintenance
hangar we can be working on up to four or
five aircraft at a time. Space is limited, so we
need all the manoeuvrability we can get,” said
Krisztián Radó, tools, GSE & calibration
specialist and lift equipment administrator for
Lufthansa in Budapest.
Alimak’s Amazon adventure
Two Alimak rack and pinion hoists were
installed on transmission towers along the
Amazon River, each as tall as the Eiffel tower
in Paris, France.
The pair of Alimak Hek SE 500 FC hoists
were installed to provide vertical access to two
tubular towers carrying three 500 kV and two
230 kV power cables across the Amazon River
in Brazil. Located near the Equator, and with
the nearest village of Almeirim an hour’s travel
by speedboat, the environment would prove
challenging.
At heights of 295 m, the transmission towers
are the tallest of their kind in South America
and the power line system stretches 1240 km
through the Amazon rainforest.
The company was awarded the contract
for supply and installation of the hoists by
contractor Isolux Corsan.The pair have a
maximum lifting height of 288.6 m and came
into use at the site in March 2013.They allow
service and maintenance personnel to access
power cable stays and aircraft warning lights
located on each tower.
In the case of a power
outage, the car uses gravity
and a centrifugal brake system
to slide back to the nearest
landing at a controlled speed – an important
feature for this project. Should the elevator car
exceed the rated speed when descending, the
car is stopped automatically
by the Alimak safety device.
Alimak Hek SE 500 FC reaches the top of one of
the 295 m transmission masts
Alimak’s hoist heads up one of the
transmission towers
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View from tower top with
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