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at Bauma 2022, which follows 24 Liebherr cranes delivered in 2022. The order, which will continue
into 2024, includes six additional LTM 1300-6.3s. “The concept of the LTM 1300-6.3 with its 90-metre telescopic boom combined with compact dimensions is perfect for universal operations here in the Middle East,” said Al Faris shareholder Keonne Pinto. “This type of crane is eagerly awaited in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.” Al Faris is one of Liebherr's
largest customers worldwide and currently has around 460 Liebherr cranes in its fleet – including mobile cranes ranging from the LTM 1030-2.1 to the LTM 11200- 9.1 and crawler cranes ranging from the LR 1350 to the LR 11000. Al Faris has also added a
Tadano GR-800EX rough terrain crane to its fleet, as announced by Tadano earlier this year. Al Faris will use the Tadano GR-800EX on a variety of infrastructure projects. The crane was purchased through Tadano's distributor, United Al Saqer Heavy Equipment L.L.C. According to Al Faris the crane meets all the requirements that industrial customers have for crane service providers, including excellent performance characteristics, cutting-edge technology, high fuel efficiency, and the ability to flexibly work with various outrigger spreads. “The GR-800EX has all this
and more which is why it meets our needs perfectly,” said Keonne Pinto, who points to the Smart Chart system and the crane’s two- stage swing-around jib as specific examples. “Thanks to these exceptional characteristics, our GR-800EX will quite literally pay for itself very quickly.” He added that the high
reliability of the GR-800EX, as well as the associated low maintenance costs, is something that the team at Al Faris finds invaluable.
The handover of AL Faris’s new Tadano GR- 800EX. From left to right: Lloyd Mentario (sales manager of United Alsaqer Heavy Equipment LLC); Yasutaro Fujita (sales manager of Tadano ME Lifting Equipment Trading LLC); Yasuaki Kishimoto (CEO & president of Tadano ME Lifting Equipment Trading LLC); H.W. Pinto (Managing Director of Al Faris Group); Nader Al Quraan (General Manager of United Alsaqer Heavy Equipment LLC); Kieve Pinto (Executive Director of Al Faris Group)
Demand for crawler work is
strong, too; not surprising given the scale of many jobs and the harshness of the jobsites.
SAVING TIME Scale was a challenge for project consultant, Fluor, at the Umm Wu’al Sulphuric Acid and Power Plant, owned by fertiliser manufacturer Ma’aden Waad Al Shamal Phosphate Company (MWSPC). The plant is in the northeast of Saudi Arabia where a new industrial city is being built.
The plant is structured around
three sulphuric acid trains containing a total of nine vast process towers; it produces almost 14,000 tonnes of fertiliser a day. MWSPC was looking to upgrade the facility and replace the original towers with cleaner, more efficient equivalents. It needed to keep downtime to an absolute minimum. The problem was the towers were not designed to be lifted in one piece when they needed to be replaced and the conventional approach for dismantling them piece-by-piece would take several months for each train.
Fluor reached out to heavy lift specialist Mammoet for a solution. Using 3D computer modelling Mammoet determined that, by using its 1,600t capacity Demag CC8800-1 and 1,250t capacity CC6800 crawler cranes, in combination with its 3,200t MSG-80 ring crane, it would be possible to reach above the confines of the site, extract all nine of the towers intact, move them to a central staging area, and hoist replacements into position. To convince MWSPC and Fluor that this operation could be achieved, Mammoet prepared a detailed engineering study. A finite element (FE) simulation
showed how the towers would respond to the pressure of being hoisted out of the plant. And a series of bespoke frames and slings were designed to safely cradle them throughout the move. Abdullah Terkaoui, project
manager for Mammoet explains: “Our methodology enabled our customers to reduce the planned shutdown schedule for each train from 120 days to 45 days. Then, as the operation progressed, further time savings were realised: the
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