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production line – such as to the storage area or on to the ship loading area. “The SPMTs to be delivered will be the backbone of our production line,” says Tomasz Bogdan from Baltic Towers, emphasising the importance of the new vehicles. Baltic Towers was established in 2023 as a result of cooperation between the Polish Industrial Development Agency S.A. and the Spanish company GRI Renewable Industries, S.L. The joint project is a significant
factor in strengthening the Polish offshore wind energy supply chain.
IN THE FIELD
Out in the field the wind industry is driving innovation by specialised transport equipment end users, too. Cologne, Germany-based heavy haulage specialist HKV, for example, has used a 12-axle combination of Cometto SPMT powered by a 202 kW Power
HKV using
Cometto SPMT on a windfarm job site north of Wolfsburg
Pack in order to achieve time- efficiencies on a windfarm job site north of Wolfsburg.
The company was using one of Sarens has
expanded its vehicle fleet with additional Scheuerle SPMT K24 axle lines. From left to right: Hendrik Sanders, Markus Pflederer, Carl Sarens, Wim Charita, Bart Uyttebroeck, Phillip Muemken celebrating the expansion
its Liebherr LR 1700-1.0 crawler cranes to assemble multiple wind turbines. The track between the wind turbines was too small for the crawler crane to move itself, plus they were a distance of between one to two kilometres apart. Rather than disassemble the crawler crane after each turbine, HKV used the SPMT to transport the crawler in just two main loads. First of all the 105 tonne upper
and undercarriage, with winch and A-frame, were moved. This was followed by the complete derrick boom, 42 metres long and weighing a total of 53.8 tonnes, as well as the ballast weight of 200 tonnes. “Thanks to the SPMT solution,
our customer HKV has reduced the relocation time of the crawler crane by around 1.5 to 2 days,”
says Joachim Kolb, sales manager at Cometto. “This meant that the overall construction of the wind farm could be considerably shortened and accelerated.” With a basic width of just
2,430 millimetres and electronic multi-directional steering, the self-propelled MSPE 48T module is well-suited to such narrow routes, says Cometto. The axle and ambient lighting with the night light kit on the vehicle also had a positive effect, as this ensured safety during night-time transport.
FLEET EXPANSION International heavy lift and transportation specialist Sarens is undertaking a large amount of wind power-related transport work. Most recently it has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Porto do Açu and Prumo in Brazil. It says this marks a major step forward in
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