Heavy lifting

Much more than moving heavy cargo

The market for heavy cargo logistics and heavy lifting technology is subject to special framework conditions and requires a high degree of trust. Lifting and transporting heavy goods therefore requires a reliable and professional solution. EMIL EGGER is the suitable partner for this and offers a full-service concept from a single source. We are your partner for lifting, moving, lowering and dismantling any lifting material and loads up to several thousand tonnes.
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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.”

Andreas Schönenberger
Project Manager Crawler Cranes & Heavy Lifting

Full-Service

  • 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)

OVERVIEW ETE VEHICLE FLEET

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.

The entire vehicle fleet in the practical e-paper
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Benefit from the experience of our specialists

Contact person in the field of heavy lifting
Michael Dudler

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

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

Displacement pedestrian underpass

Shift 1500 tons

Push-pull units

HEAVY CARGO EMPLOYEES
216
HEAVY CARGO OPERATIONS P.A.
40,000
HEAVY CARGO VEHICLES
295

HEAVY GOODS PROFESSIONAL EMIL EGGER

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Successful reinstallation of the Sitter Bridge in Appenzell
EMIL EGGER at work on a challenging infrastructure project for Appenzeller Bahnen.
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185 tons of Reuss bridge on the hook
On the weekend of 22/23 March 2025, a significant milestone was reached in the renovation of the Reussbrücke Fluhmühle bridge in Lucerne: the first of three bridge sections was successfully lifted out – an impressive 185 tons of steel were suspended from the 1000 t crawler crane with an 84 m jib!
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Precision and teamwork for machine relocation in Künten
For the packaging and molded parts manufacturer Taracell AG in Künten, we mastered a challenging heavy goods logistics task.
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Dismantling of the B43 bridge over the DB facilities in Hanau
Work began on December 2, 2024 and is scheduled to be completed by March 2025. The first construction phase had its intensive phase in the last week of December. The second intensive phase will now follow over the next few weeks.
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Successful dismantling weekend in Muttenz
Last weekend we were able to complete the crane work for the dismantling of the Grenzacherstrasse overpass in Muttenz.
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Special transportation of large and heavy parts of a tunnel boring machine
Last week, EMIL EGGER AG delivered two of the largest and heaviest parts of the tunnel boring machine for the second tube of the Gotthard tunnel.
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Work of art installed in Zurich Werdhölzli
The artwork “Schräg im Gleichgewicht” was created in 1984. It was dismantled in 2014 for the renovation of the entrance area and temporarily stored at Werdhölzli.
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Crane hand in action with the special crane from EMIL EGGER
We had the exciting task of moving the façade supports with our special ESK 30 crane and the attached crane hand with millimeter precision on a nearly completed building.
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Dismantling of Freuler Bridge Muttenz
In the night from 8 to July 9, the first stage of the crane work for the dismantling of the Freuler Bridge came to an end in Muttenz.
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Swiss 1000 t crawler crane lifts bridge sections in the greater Stuttgart area
At the beginning of May, we were involved in the dismantling of the “Great Pflugfelder Bridge” in Kornwestheim. The truss bridge dates back to 1917 and crosses the tracks of an important shunting and transhipment yard in the greater Stuttgart area.
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