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“Are you in the process of planning your heavy cargo project? We would be happy to support you with a non-binding conversation. To help you make the right decisions now and successfully complete key milestones, we share our expertise and experience with you.”
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- Individual, economical and customer-optimized solutions
- Creation of bases for variant decisions
- Project planning and engineering
- Transport, insertion and assembly as part of the full-service concept
- Optimal equipment (strand jacks, shifting units, mobile & crawler cranes, lifting systems, SPMT)
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TECHNICAL MANUAL
In order to be able to quickly evaluate the suitable devices, the technical manual is available with a practical overview index. Digitally also available as an interactive PDF. On more than 300 pages you will find our heavy cargo range at a glance including technical drawings & dimension tables. Our project managers are available to provide you with further information.
Benefit from the experience of our specialists
Contact person in the field of heavy lifting
Michael Dudler
Division Manager Heavy Cargo
Management
Dipl. Civil Engineer HTL/FH / Dip. Wirtschaftsing. GH/EMBA
- Several years of experience in heavy load logistics (mobile & crawler cranes, special transports, heavy lifting)
- Many years of experience or activity in project and technical management in bridge construction and deconstruction
- Design and construction of formwork, falsework and special scaffolding (composite formwork carriages, feed and free-assembly scaffolding, climbing formwork, etc.)
Andreas Schönenberger
Projekt lead crawler cranes & heavy lifting
Crane work
BSc Mechanical Engineering ZFH
- Several years of experience in heavy cargo logistics (mobile & crawler cranes, special transports, lifting & sliding technology)
PRECISION AND RELIABILITY APPRECIATED THROUGHOUT SWITZERLAND
IMPRESSIONS FROM THE LIFTING AND SLIDING APPLICATIONS
- HEAVY CARGO EMPLOYEES
- 216
- HEAVY CARGO OPERATIONS P.A.
- 40,000
- HEAVY CARGO VEHICLES
- 295
HEAVY GOODS PROFESSIONAL EMIL EGGER
SBB Pfungen station
Last weekend, the ETE employees performed an extraordinary feat. The starting signal for the operation was given on Friday morning at 4:00 am. At Pfungen railway station, we were able to move a pre-concreted pedestrian subway including the associated stair and ramp elements up to 170 t with our 1000 t Liebherr LR 11000 crawler crane.
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190 TONS OF RAILWAY SUBWAY PLACED
The LR 11000 was erected for the placement of a 190-tonne passenger subway at Martigny railway station in the Valais. The parts of the giant crane were delivered with 25 tugs and assembled with a mobile crane.
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284 MODULES TRANSPORTED AND PLACED BY CRANE
On behalf of Burckhardt Compression AG, Winterthur, we were allowed to lift a 280 t compressor from the production site in Winterthur with our 500 t lifting system, move it and then load it onto our 18-axle special low-loader. With a total weight of more than 420 t and a total length of almost 60 m, including the two impact vehicles, we then drove along cantonal roads in the direction of Auhafen/Basel.
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Industrial relocation with special transport
On behalf of Burckhardt Compression AG, Winterthur, we were allowed to lift a 280 t compressor from the production site in Winterthur with our 500 t lifting system, move it and then load it onto our 18-axle special low-loader. With a total weight of more than 420 t and a total length of almost 60 m, including the two impact vehicles, we then drove along cantonal roads in the direction of Auhafen/Basel.
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Recovery after train accident
At the end of March, a violent storm blew a three-car train composition off the tracks in Lüscherz, Bern. Of the 16 passengers on the train at the time, three were injured. Fortunately, there were no serious injuries. EMIL EGGER AG was entrusted with the rescue.
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Replacement beaver bridge in Biberbrugg with 1000 tons crane
Numerous onlookers followed the work of replacing the 60-year-old beaver bridge in Biberbrugg from September 30 to October 2. Toneatti AG, together with subcontractors such as EMIL EGGER, carried out the long-planned work. After dismantling the old bridge, the new one, 17 m long and weighing 240 tons, was then set with millimeter precision.
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Crane work for power pole assembly
Several cranes from the EMIL EGGER fleet were deployed in the Engadine to ensure smooth assembly: an 80-ton crane, a 100-ton pneu crane and, in some cases, a 250-ton mobile crane with a hook height of over 90 meters.
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All-terrain crane Tadano AC 7.450-1 Operation in Dübendorf
Tadano AC 7.450-1 mobile crane in operation on a high-rise construction site in Dübendorf. Due to the confined space, a compactly built crane with enormous lifting height was required, which can erect construction cranes up to 100 m.
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42 m high observation tower was completed in three strokes
The wood used for the construction of the tower comes directly from the hardwood forest. Approximately 310 cubic meters of wood were processed. The whole tower weighs a total of 190 tons. The challenge of stacking the weighty and large prefabricated elements of 42 tons each on top of each other was solved by means of crane work by EMIL EGGER AG. The modules were mounted on top of each other in three lifts up to a height of 42 m by means of a 450-tonne pneumatic crane.
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When the smallest is suddenly the highest
In the spring of 2022, our smallest C6 mini crawler crane had a big job on the landmark of eastern Switzerland – the Säntis – at an altitude of over 2500 metres. Various crane jobs had to be carried out as part of a research project.
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