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Alpine heavy haulage for storage power plant
Last summer, Bau-Trans processed a total of thirteen heavy transports with unit weights of up to 152 tonnes for the Obervermunt II storage power plant project in Vorarlberg. The most important means…
Special transport for Power Tower
In late September, Felbermayr transported two 30-metre tanks from Wels to Graz. Their destination was the Power Tower in Graz’s Reininghaus district. Once they had arrived there, the 37-tonnes hot…
189-metre boom for chimney demolition job
In the coming weeks, Styria's highest building to date will be razed to the ground. A crawler crane with a maximum hook height of 187 metres is used for this purpose.
High voltage pylon crane lifting operation
In order to change the route of a high voltage line in Canton Rüthi in Switzerland, a mobile crane was deployed by Bau-Trans’ Vaduz location in early August. The crane pad’s position between a…
Concentrated power for wind farm
Until autumn of this year, Felbermayr’s Transport and Lifting Technology department will erect 13 wind power systems on the Styrian Handalm pasture. In addition to three large cranes, the feat will be…
1,000 tonnes of service weight to lift a bridge into place
In late April, Felbermayr’s Crane Rentals Department lifted into place a 245-tonne bridge in Vienna. The construction of Vienna’s new Main Station and the associated adaptation of the traffic system…
Innovative machine transport
In January, Felbermayr’s subsidiary Wimmer Maschinentransporte relocated a 68-ton press for an internationally active automotive supplier. The heavy haulage transport to Hungary covering approximately…
Tandem lift for transformer recycling
At the end of February, a transformer core weighing around 108 tonnes was lifted out of the transformer tank by Felbermayr crane rental. The components were then dismantled and as far as possible sent…
Small scale hydroelectric power station on the Danube Island
Work on construction of a small scale hydroelectric power station has been in progress on the Danube Island in Vienna since June 2016. When it is finished the challenging civil engineering project…
Record journey – rail transport of 482 tonnes
At the beginning of December 2016, Felbermayr's Department for International Low-Loader Rail Transport (ITB) carried out the heaviest ever rail transport executed in Europe. A generator stator was…
Tunnel chain Klaus
From April to November, employees of the Felbermayr division civil engineering worked on the expansion of the tunnel chain Klaus. The scope of the contract mainly included road and pipeline…
Special transport delivers Christmas tree
The time before Christmas is often full of challenges and that is also true for heavy haulage operators. Even though traction units and not reindeer pull the trailers and sleighs are replaced by…