Rent forklift up to 16 tons lifting capacity

After the last trip on Easter Monday, the funicular carriages were lifted off the rails. Back in 1974, as today, EMIL EGGER took care of the logistics.

Two hours of work in around one minute: the 120-year-old Sitter Bridge is excavated for the first time for extensive renovation work. This measure is part of the renewal of the railroad line between Gais and Appenzell.

The passenger ship MS Yellow was transported from Zug to Sugiez by EMIL EGGER using heavy goods transport.

The final for the “Prix SVC Ostschweiz” took place on March 7. For the eleventh time, the Swiss Venture Club (SVC) is honoring exemplary small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Marco Fritsche hosted the award ceremony in the Olma exhibition halls. The event offered the 900 invited guests from business, science, politics and the media insights into entrepreneurship in the region.

In the night from 15. on the On January 16, as part of the repair work on the Grenzacher Bridge in Muttenz, we were able to lift the new 275 t, 50 m long reinforced concrete composite bridge over the N02 freeway using our 750 t crawler crane. Thanks to our modern equipment, it is possible to handle such unique load cases with this category of crane.

Last week we had the pleasure of transporting a railcar box from St. Margrethen to Dresden for our customer Stadler Rail.

Seventh largest mining excavator in the world weighing 800 tons transported from Birsfelden to Herisau.

Recently, a piece of engineering art was maneuvered through the Zurzibiet from Winterthur to Basel. A special transporter from EMIL EGGER, loaded with a piston compressor from Burckhardt Compression AG, took on the challenge of transporting the valuable cargo safely along the Swiss roads.

The MS Schwyz changes the lake. The ship with a length of 31.2 m, a width of 7 m and a height of 4.4 m was lifted out of Lake Zug on Monday morning by two pneu cranes of the EMIL EGGER Group and loaded onto an articulated lorry. It will change lakes and be transported to Lake Walen under challenging conditions and, if everything goes according to plan, will finally be put into the water on Thursday.

The EMIL EGGER Group is one of the top 20 crane service providers in the German-speaking region. In an eight-week deployment, we made an impressive contribution to renewable energy in Switzerland by installing six wind turbines in the Swiss Jura. The impressive turbines, manufactured by Enercon, are expected to produce 22 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually. Key to the successful erection of these wind turbines were modern Liebherr crawler cranes, which lifted loads of over 70 tons to an astonishing height of 100 meters.