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A quarter century of rail
The three transport routes of rail, road and water are a fixed constituent part of the Felbermayr company philosophy. To be strictly accurate, on the 1st of July the division for international…
Power station construction on the River Traun
After around two years of building time, the work on the erection of the replacement construction of the Traunleiten power station near Wels entered the home straight. At the start of the coming year,…
Heavy haulage and installation for a cold levelling machine
In the middle of April Felbermayr Schwermontage was called upon for the heavy haulage of two cold levelling machines and positioning them on their foundations. All this took place at the voestalpine…
Sewer refurbishment using short pipe relining
Felbermayr used what is called “short pipe relining” to refurbish a sewer in Graz during March. This process enabled a section of sewer approximately 600 m long to be refurbished extremely quickly,…
Trimodal heavy transport for "power plant relocation"
More than ten years ago a gas power plant was planned in the eastern Hungarian city of Vásárosnamény. However, it was never erected even although the major components, such as the turbine and stator,…
"Heavy work" for wheat starch factory
Heavy transports as well as lattice boom and mobile cranes were required within the course of the expansion of a wheat starch factory in the Lower Austrian town of Pischelsdorf in February. Felbermayr…
Crane use in cement plants
Heavy-transport vehicles and mobile cranes from Felbermayr were used in early January for the modernisation of a cement plant in Upper Austria. In doing so, components with individual weights of more…
Exchange of experience at the assembly meeting
For the second time already, the Felbermayr subsidiary company Wimmer Maschinentransporte hosted an assembly meeting in Sulzemoos in Bavaria. Around 40 lead managers attended in order to further…
Rehabilitation of war-time buildings
In early May, Felbermayr’s Building Construction Department started work on the rehabilitation of a number of buildings from the 1940s located in Linz’s Bindermichl district. Master builder work is…
Work platforms provide glittering light
Transport services and crane, fork lift and work platform rentals are part of the portfolio of Bau-Trans’s Vaduz location in Liechtenstein. Boom lifts are really popular in the time leading up to…
Lifting bridge for transformer transport
Late October’s transport of a 150-tonne transformer involved Bau-Trans’s Assembly Logistics and Transport Services Departments as well as ITB (International Flatbed Rail Transports) and Felbermayr’s…
Crane job for world’s biggest church bell
At a height of more than three metres, the largest one of the five bells of the new orthodox Church in Bucharest is regarded as the largest suspended church bell in the world. The 25-tonne bell was…