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The first Manitowoc 16000 with wind attachment in India is currently working on one of the country’s largest wind farms. As well as being the first crane of its kind in India the Manitowoc 16000 is also the largest new crawler crane ever purchased by owner Amrik Singh & Sons Crane Services Pvt Ltd.

A striking new landmark in the Central Business District of Perth Western Australia is near completion. Three Potain luffing jib cranes are playing an essential role in building the City Square Tower or C2 project. The cranes are all scheduled to leave the job site in the final weeks of 2011.

A fleet of 16 Grove rough-terrain cranes is right on schedule to complete the construction of over 2 000 villas in a one-year period as part of a new residential development in Abu Dhabi UAE. The cranes are working 24 hours a day at the $750 million Al Falah development a new stand-alone community that will eventually house 60 000 UAE nationals.

Excavation work on Thames Water’s £635 million ($980 million) Lee Tunnel in the UK is progressing well with the help of a Potain MD 560 B. The crane is removing excavated soil from tunnel shafts and is scheduled to help with concreting later in the project.

Five Potain cranes are constructing pylons at the Viaduto do Corgo in Portugal. The viaduct will be one of the longest — 2 796 m — and tallest in the country.

Nearly a dozen Manitowoc crawler cranes and several Grove RTs have been key players in the development of the Rolling Hills Wind Project in southwestern Iowa. Helping erect 193 wind turbines are three Manitowoc 16000s each with a wind attachment; two Manitowoc 14000s; two Manitowoc 888s; two Manitowoc 2250s and several Grove rough-terrain cranes.

A Manitowoc 2250 crawler crane and a Grove GMK6250L all-terrain crane helped construct a two-story underground parking structure at a mixed-use apartment complex in Bloomington Minn. U.S.

Manitowoc welcomed nearly 400 guests to its factory in Charlieu France this September to showcase expansions and upgrades incorporated into the facility over the past 12 months.

A GTK1100 assembled three 2 MW wind turbines in just nine days. The project included mast erection and nacelle and rotor blade installation. For crane owner Wiesbauer it also marked the 50th turbine assembly by this GTK1100 in the last four years. The crane has also worked on a range of industrial and energy projects during the same time period.

A Grove GSK55 trailer-mounted crane traveled to a remote mountain village in Germany for a recent job. The crane’s operator said the GSK55 negotiated the mountainous roads with ease but said the same journey with a normal all-terrain crane would have been much slower. 

Manitowoc announced that NIBM will sell Potain top-slewing cranes in Belgium. NIBM currently sells Potain cranes in the Netherlands and the Northrhine-Westphalia region of Germany.