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A 10-tonne bronze horse erected with a lifting frame
Felbermayr Linz was assigned a heavy transport order with a historical background. In mid-August, the bronze casting of Alexander the Great’s legendary warhorse Bucephalus was transported to the…
Record length push convoy
At the beginning of August, a large-capacity push barge was used to ship concrete parts with a total weight of 500 tons from Felbermayr Wasserbau in Vienna. The prefabricated parts are required for a…
A world first with 70 meter working height
The new F-70 LTK work platform, a world first in lifting technology, recently brought the Felbermayr operating personnel and two employees of a cleaning company up into the air. In doing so, a…
Heavy transport for environmentally friendly energy
A total of 16 pressurised heat accumulators, each weighing 90 tonnes, were transported from Rain am Lech to Cottbus for the conversion of a combined heat and power plant from lignite to gas operation.…
Crane ship for bridge construction in use
In May, the crane ship from Felbermayr hydraulic engineering was used for the construction of a temporary bascule bridge for pedestrian and bicycle traffic. The installation became necessary due to…
Lifting frame used for fruit press installation
In mid-April, the heavy equipment installation team from Felbermayr was called in to replace a fruit press weighing around 25 tonnes. The setting was the factory of the Austrian fruit juice producer…
Unrestricted range of services despite pandemic
The spread of the pandemic “coronavirus COVID-19” has the world on tenterhooks. Consequently, individual countries have established their own set of rules that are making work processes either…
Horst Felbermayr – pioneer of heavy goods logistics deceased
After a serious illness, the heavy goods logistics and building industry lost a great entrepreneur in Horst Felbermayr on 13th March 2020. The company boss from Wels (Austria) shaped the business for…
Rockfall protection for the deepest gorge in the Alps
In a cooperative joint venture, Felbermayr specialised civil engineering is working until the end of October on rockfall protection measures in the Salzburg Liechtensteinklamm gorge. This is necessary…
Apprentice training at Felbermayr
As an internationally active family business, Felbermayr is looking for people with a great variety of interests and qualifications. Alongside specialists from the areas of construction and transport,…
Grounding-breaking for the new group headquarters
Together with the Upper Austrian State Governor Thomas Stelzer and the Municipal Leader Andreas Rabl, the Wels family company Felbermayr celebrated the official ground-breaking for the erection of the…
Support frame bridge in action
In the summer of 2019, the project department of heavy transport specialist Bau-Trans transported a 23 metre long steam drum weighing 105 tonnes, from Nüziders in Vorarlberg to Upper Austria. Many…