![]() ![]() “The hoisting and slewing control system consists of the highest quality components and meets the highest performance level”Ĭarl Sarens, Director of Technical Solutions Such immense lifting height is the product of a 118-metre high-strength steel built main boom, which stands 160 metres high, and a 52.3 metre heavy duty jib which adds an additional 100 metres. It is only possible because of the SGC-250’s height – 0.25 km high in its tallest configuration, a little taller than One Canada Square in London’s Canary Wharf – and sheer load capacity. ![]() It is a process that construction director Rob Jordan describes as “innovative… pre-fabrication helps us boost quality, gives better conditions for skilled workers, and saves time”. More than 600 prefabricated sections of the new power station will be lifted into place, including the main sections of the steel containment liner and dome for each reactor building. The ring-based crane, the first of Sarens’ third generation of ring cranes, is now being put to work in its first project at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK. So even when extended out to a 100-metre radius, this crane is capable of lifting the weight of 8 planes, or 563 elephants.ĭesigned and built by Belgium-based heavy lifting powerhouse Sarens, it is called the SGC-250 – or, to use its nickname, ‘Big Carl’. A 250,000 tonne-metre rating means if the load is positioned 100 metres from the central mast the maximum lifting capacity is 2,500 tonnes. Dividing the tonne-metre rating by the distance from centre gives the max capacity at that distance. This gargantuan lifting machine has a capacity of 5,000 tonnes, thanks to a whopping maximum load moment of 250,000 tonne-metres.Ī tonne-metre is a measure of how much a crane can lift in relation to how far the load is positioned from the base of the central mast. The largest crane in the world, the SGC-250, uses the power of high-strength steel to deliver unprecedented lifting capacity.Ģ0 planes, 63 trains, 126 trucks, 1,408 elephants – the world’s largest crane can lift them all.
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