Heavy Lifting

Enerpac hydraulic cylinders are set to have a key role in the final construction of the ITER fusion tokamak in 2024. On completion of assembly of the tokamak’s vacuum vessel sectors, nine cylinders now pre-installed at the bottom of the machine will lift a 11m diameter, 320t, circular poloidal magnet (PF6) into position at the […]

Ainscough Crane Hire’s Heavy Cranes team joined forces with Gilpin Demolition and Dorset Council to remove a sunken fishing vessel from Weymouth Harbour. The boat, called FV Gitte and built in 1982, was a former Danish trawler that was 17.7m in length. It had been moored up in the harbour behind Weymouth Pavilion since being […]

An Enerpac push-pull system has been used to construct the world’s largest observation wheel. Opening mid-October, the Ain Dubai observation wheel is over 250m tall, significantly higher than the 168m, High Roller observation wheel in Las Vegas, and almost twice the height of the London Eye. Constructing the world’s largest and tallest observation wheel is […]

Enerpac has enhanced the ETR-Series Trolley System with higher capacity trolleys and swivel plates to accommodate header beams and other lifting systems With a 50t (500kN) and now 100t (1000kN) capacity per trolley, the electrically driven trolleys can carry heavy loads up to 800t (8000kN) horizontally in a continuous smooth movement, including acceleration and deceleration. […]

Handling Specialty made history in 1995 when it was contracted to produce the underwater stage lift system for Cirque du Soleil at the Bellagio, in Las Vegas.  The ‘O’ show continues to perform two shows per night after 24 years on the original Handling Specialty lift systems. It is an extraordinary engineering feat from an […]

Hungarian heavy lifting and machine assembly specialist, Megakran Plc, relied upon its Enerpac SL400N hydraulic gantry to move an 85t sheet metal press between factories located in Somogy County in southwest Hungary. The SL400N gantry provided easier access to the press than using a mobile crane. With a large vehicle production industry, Hungary is one […]

Leading Turkish heavy lifting company, Hareket, relied upon Enerpac strand jacks to install superheater and vaporisation modules at the first United Arab Emirates waste-to-energy (WTE) facility in Sharjah. Generating up to 30MW of electricity, the facility will contribute to Sharjah’s effort to achieve, ‘zero waste-to-landfill,’ and the UAE to meeting its 2021 goal of diverting […]

On behalf of TechnipFMC, Jumbo Offshore successfully completed the first phase of work on Energean’s Karish gas field, offshore Israel, in October. Jumbo’s scope of work included transport and installation of 14 suction piles (part of a 14-point FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) mooring system), a tie-in manifold and a 24in deepwater gas sales […]

Portuguese heavy lift and specialist transport contractor, LASO Transportes AS, has used a combination of Enerpac SBL500 telescopic hydraulic gantry and side shifts to precisely position two presses weighing up to 160t. Using the side shift allowed the automotive presses to be lifted and positioned in three dimensions to fit reinforced concrete platforms. Industrial moves […]

Enerpac, a global leader for precise positioning of heavy loads, has helped move some of the largest structures on earth. With the introduction of a new, greener heating system at Alderley Science Park in Cheshire, UK, it was important to retain the existing boiler house and remove the boilers intact for reuse elsewhere. Heavy lift […]