Lampson International Builds 3,000-Tonne Crawler Crane

摘要

Heavy-lift specialist Lampson International LLC has finished load-testing its largest crane, the Transi-Lift LTL-3000, which can lift loads weighing 3,000 tonnes and is said to cost more than $25 million. Standing today in Lampson's Kenne-wick, Wash., facility, the unit was sold in 2010 to Hitachi Transport Ltd. to build a now-delayed Higashidori nuclear power-plant for Tokyo Electric Power Co. The LTL-3000 sports updated technology. "It's a departure from the previous Transi-Lifts in that the hoist system is entirely hydraulic," says Bryan Pepin-Donat, Lampson's director of contracts and international business. Previous models used friction drives, he explains.