wind turbines
BladeLifter takes on longest rotor blades
Due to its enormous performance reserves, the fourth generation Scheuerle BladeLifter allows all fleet operators to have a high level of investment security as well as economic efficiency and offers transport safety even when moving the longest rotor blades. The Steil Kranarbeiten company has used this solution for numerous last-mile transport of rotor blades up […]
Liebherr enables Port of Esbjerg to handle large offshore wind turbine parts
The Port of Esbjerg is a long-standing partner of Liebherr and has recently ordered a second LHM 800. The new crane is already the seventh Liebherr mobile harbour crane to be used at Denmark’s largest port. Next-generation offshore wind turbines will be lifted with the new heavy-duty crane. Liebherr will deliver a further crane of […]
Safer, faster and more cost-efficient wind turbine blade replacement
The wind energy market demands constant innovation from its supply chain, as Crosby Airpes’s craneless wind turbine rotor blade exchange system proves. As wind farm operators meet unprecedented demand for new turbines, they must also maintain installed towers, nacelles, and other components. Central to that work is the removal and replacement of rotor blades, […]
DLM weighs turbine blades at MHI Vestas
Dynamic Load Monitoring (UK) Ltd. (DLM), of Southampton, UK has provided a wireless weighing solution for MHI Vestas Offshore Wind’s facility at nearby Fawley. MHI Vestas needed an accurate way of measuring the weight of their 80m long turbine blades (the length of nine London buses back-to-back) at both the root and the tip upon […]