The 11-axle XCA4000 wheeled mobile cranemade by XCMG, has actually made its very first lifts at a 200 MW wind farm in Jing County, Hengshui, China.
The XCA4000 crane has actually a ranked lifting capability of 4,000 tonnes and, according to the spec sheet, can raise 230 tonnes to a height of 170 metres. This makes it the most significant wheeled mobile crane ever developed.
Previously this month it raised a series of elements at the Jing County wind farm for Hebei Rongcheng Technology. These consisted of a 130-tonne wind turbine nacelle, a 40-tonne wheel center, and 3 95-metre-long blades weighing 28 tonnes each, to a height of 162 meters for assembly on the tower.
The XCA4000 has more than a lots sensing units dispersed on the boom to identify and remove dangers in real-time, XCMG states.
It utilized to be the Germans that blazed a trail on the greatest mobile cranes– Gottwald, Demag and latterly LiebherrNow it is the Chinese, driven by need for setting up ever larger and greater wind turbines. XCMG has actually made more than 200 mobile cranes with capabilities of 1,000 tonnes or above recently.
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