Manitowoc has appointed ANK Cranes as its Grove equipment dealer in Norway and Sweden.
ANK Cranes is based in Rælingen, Norway, and Billdal, Sweden. Leaders Martin Andersson, Thor Nordahl and Anders Kiel and their staff will add many years of mobile crane experience to the Manitowoc team.
ANK Cranes is currently receiving extensive training at the Grove factory in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, to meet Norwegian and Swedish customers’ needs.
Wisconsin-based Manitowoc has been providing heavy lift cranes for a USD865 million bridge upgrade project in Florida, USA.
Sarens’ SGC-250 crane, named Big Carl, has lifted the 750-tonne polar crane into place at Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant project in the UK.
Earlier this year, Sarens installed a complex event structure for the Ghent Jazz Festival in Belgium, lifting preassembled frames for the main tent as well as other smaller marquees.
Hungarian crane company Mamut Daru has added a 450-tonne capacity LTM 1450-8.1 crane from Liebherr to its fleet.
A Modulift spreader beam was used recently in the northeast of England to support the recalibration of a vessel’s crane for a national ship repair company.
Netherlands-headquartered Hapo International Barges has purchased the 1,200-tonne capacity cranes that were formerly fitted onboard Cadeler’s Wind Orca and Wind Osprey installation vessels.
