CITY CRANES Ӏ SECTOR REPORT
seem strange that a heavy crawler can be battery-only while a lighter city crane cannot. Gibbs explains why. “It’s about weight,” he says. “Crawlers get carried to their job site on a flatbed truck and only move slowly for short distances around the site.
TADANO IN DEMAND
The Schmidbauer crane rental and haulage group, headquartered in Munich, Germany, ordered no fewer than six Tadano city cranes last year. “The extremely compact AC 3.045-1 City is simply our crane of choice when it comes to projects in urban areas and tight work sites,” reports managing director Dr. Mitja Schimek. His colleague Christian Schlagbauer, manager at the Ingolstadt branch, also has words of praise for the compact design and the resulting maneuverability behind the AC 3.045-1 City. “On top of that the crane generally has extraordinary lifting capacities and especially when telescoping under load,” he said. “This makes it unbeatable from our perspective when it comes to indoor projects.” Schmidbauer ordered all six AC 3.045-1 City units with an e-Pack prep package for zero-emission crane operation. The cranes
Mobiles and city cranes, however, drive themselves – often for miles at up to 40 km an hour on public roads and motorways. The battery needed for that would be massive and would add huge weight to the crane on the road. This would be inefficient and
demand yet more power capacity from the battery… so it is very deliberate that the city crane is a plug-in. “On the road we power all our cranes on hydro-treated vegetable oil (HVO), aka ‘renewable diesel’ rather than
can make full use of the electric power even in cleanrooms. This expands the range of applications for a crane that is already extremely versatile but is also crucial for the company’s green future.
Meanwhile Dutch industrial service
provider Convoi is also familiar with the advantages behind the Tadano cranes: “We’ve had AC 40 City cranes at work since 1997, and they have proven time and time again that they are the perfect cranes for machinery relocation projects. In a nutshell, they are compact, powerful, and extremely maneuverable above all, which makes them simply unbeatable when it comes to work in small spaces. And now, with the new AC 3.045-1 City, we’re giving it a state-of-the- art sibling,” explains Convoi site supervisor Remco Scheffers while picking up his new crane in Lauf, where it was handed over by Tadano Sales Manager Richard Beenen. Convoi ordered the Tadano AC 3.045- 1 City with comprehensive equipment, including a runner, cameras, and remote control. “The crane will be operated by Convoi Switzerland to extend its crane fleet and, more specifically, the AC 3.045-1 will be used for new installations,” reports Remco Scheffers, who goes on to mention another advantage behind the AC 3.045-1 City: “Its practical axle loads and compact dimensions make it particularly easy to get travel permits for it, which makes the compact Tadano City crane even more cost- effective for us.”
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