WORLD NEWS
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INTERNATIONAL AND SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT
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DECEMBER 2013
XGC88000 BREAKS
ANOTHER RECORD
A 4,000 tonne capacity class
XGC88000 heavy lift lattice
boom crawler from XCMG
has broken a lifting record at
a coal liquefaction project in
Shenhua Ningxia, China, the
manufacturer said. It lifted a
Fischer-Tropsch oil synthesis
reactor into place. The reactor
had a diameter of 9.6 metres
and a height of 54.4 m.
It weighed 2,155 tonnes and
took 2.5 hours to install. The
crawler was configured with
84 m of boom.
The reactor was tilted up and
rotated before being installed
on its foundation. Tailing was
carried out by a 1,000 tonne
capacity crawler crane.
The Shenhua Ningxia
project is being carried out by
Shenhua Group and Shenhua
Ningxia Coal Industry Group.
Annual capacity will be to
produce 4.04 million tonnes
of oil and olefin. The crawler
made a further seven similar
lifts on the project.
More than 10 Liebherr HS 885 duty cycle crawler cranes are working
on the construction of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express
Rail Link (XRL), an underground railway line running through
Hong Kong.
The main contractor for the Hong Kong section of the line is
MTR Corporation. The contractor is using the duty cycle crawler
cranes to remove spoil from the tunnel excavation. About 1.7 million
cubic metres of earth is expected to be removed from the tunnels, a
company spokesperson said. Attachments on the crawlers include
grabs, drag buckets, diaphragm wall grabs and pipe laying ancillaries,
a spokesperson added.
The West Kowloon Terminus (WKT) Station North will be the only
Hong Kong station on the XRL. The main tunnel is 26 km long and will
link to a main station complete with 15 stations, where daily traffic of
around 99,000 passengers is expected.
New Tidd PC 25 pick
and carry in from NZ
The latest pick and carry
crane to make an impact on
the niche market segment in
Australia and New Zealand is
the Tidd PC 25,
writes Brent
Stacey
. First seen on the crane
display at September’s Crane
Industry Council of Australia
(CICA) national conference in
Hobart, this new product for
the Australasian market will
give crane operators another
product choice in a market that
has an estimated 4,000 units
in operation.
The pick and carry
crane, manufactured in
New Zealand, has moved
across the Tasman Sea with
two product demonstration
days held in Melbourne and
Perth, Australia. The Tidd
crane is being distributed
and supported throughout
Australia via the Manitowoc
Crane Group network.
While the new pick and
carry crane introduces what
will be a new name in
manufacturing to many, those
with a keen sense of history
will be aware of the TRT name.
Tidd Ross Todd Pty Ltd was
well known for manufacturing
complete crane carriers in
the 1970s and 1980s, which
then had imported upper
works from Grove and others
mounted on them.
A recent open day to
demonstrate the Tidd PC 25
was at WATM Bayswater, the
Western Australian Manitowoc
dealer’s headquarters in Perth.
Feedback was very positive,
said Bruce Carden, TRT
manufacturing director. One
visitor commented, “I like
the finish. It’s very well put
together, it will be interesting
to see what a production unit
looks like.”
Carden replied, “This
is serial no. 006 off the
production line. WATM receive
number 007 next week and you
are welcome to come back then
and Anthony Lazenby [WATM
managing director] can show
you it when it arrives, it will
be identical.”
Fassi showcases new crane
Italian crane manufacturer
Fassi launched a new medium
capacity class crane at the 12th
Solutrans trade show in Lyon,
France during November 2013.
A prototype Fassi F165AZ,
developed for the French
market, was showcased by
Miltra Sas, the exclusive
importer of Fassi cranes in
France. The F165AZ, rated
at 15 tonne-metres,
is in the medium
capacity class and has
an outreach of 8 metres.
The boom telescopes using a
single hydraulic cylinder inside
the outer boom, a company
spokesperson said. Production
is scheduled to start in the
early months of 2014.
The prototype Fassi F165AZ crane
