Grimsel dam – assembly of the luffing jib cranes

Our industrial relocation team recently had the task of temporarily storing, transporting, lifting and positioning a bottle washing and filling system for Allegra Passugger Mineralquellen AG.

In 2016, Bystronic Laser AG started the cooperation with EMIL EGGER. What began with simple warehouse logistics has developed over the last few years into trained and process-oriented production logistics.

On Sunday, July 17, 2022, a train of the Appenzeller Bahnen derailed in Wasserauen after colliding with a car. To help the railcar back onto the tracks, EMIL EGGER was quickly on the scene with two mobile cranes.

A locomotive collided with a stationary construction train at Zollikofen station (BE) on Thursday, June 2, 2022. The locomotive driver was slightly injured. No other persons were harmed.

Not far from the fashionable spa and resort town of St. Moritz in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, a Liebherr LR 11000 crawler crane has installed a 176-ton railroad bridge. This most powerful crawler crane in Switzerland belongs to the logistics and transport company EMIL EGGER AG and got the job done at an altitude of just under 2,000 meters in the Alps – with an unusual setup configuration due to lack of space. In total, three aged truss bridges of the Rhaetian Railway were replaced by the Liebherr crane.

EN: Im Herbst 2021 wurde mithilfe des Raupenkrans LR 11000 der EMIL EGGER AG die Autobahn A1 in St. Gallen auf einer Länge von rund 190 Metern überdeckt. EN: Dabei mussten 186 Spannbetonträger mit 85 Tonnen Gewicht und 30 m Länge millimetergenau platziert werden.

Dismantling and reassembly of a reworked hydropower turbine at Matte power station on the River Aare in Bern. EMIL EGGER dismantled the guide vane and the impeller with a total weight of 24 t and brought it from Bern to the ANDRITZ manufacturing plant in Kriens, for a general overhaul. After the overhaul, we transported the turbine back to its place and also took over the assembly with the help of a pneumatic crane.

On Wednesday 9.2.2022 in the course of the afternoon, in the Vaud Alps, a railcar of the Villars-sur-Ollon – Bretaye rack railroad was buried by an avalanche and plunged down the slope. Fortunately, except for the driver, there were no persons on board and there were no injuries. Until then, no comparable event had ever occurred on this slope.

Fascinatingly fast erection of a house for laying hens in Neuenegg. The wooden trusses were delivered via special transports and our mobile construction crane, together with Renggli’s assembly team, ensured the rapid placement of the large components on site.

For the assembly of a parking garage in Wohlen, our team arrived with the smallest powerhouse of the EMIL EGGER crawler crane fleet, the 250 tonner. Steel structure and concrete elements are set at the same time.