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Germany-based heavy haulage company Steil Kranarbeiten has taken delivery of the first Tadano GTC 1800EX to be handed over worldwide.
For Tadano, the deal also symbolically represents the integration of its Tadano and Demag brands: it was developed at Tadano Demag production facility in Zweibrücken and sold under the Tadano brand name.
Applications of the GTC 1800EX include installing and assembling prefab concrete elements, bridges, or tunnels in structural and civil engineering projects; as a setup and pre-assembly crane in wind power projects; and when maintaining large mining equipment and facilities.
Birgit Steil, general manager, Steil Kranarbeiten, said: “We expect, first and foremost, to save a lot of time and money with the GTC 1800EX. Especially because of the short setup times and the logistical advantages when it comes to transportation. Since the crane is also very versatile, we’ll be using it primarily at work sites with tight space conditions and on difficult terrain. With its intelligent IC 1 Plus control system, it has the advantage that it automatically determines the available lifting capacity under consideration of factors such as ground inclination and the track setting.”
Directly after the handover, Steil’s GTC 1800EX was taken to a wind farm in the Black Forest, where it was used to lift rotor blades and disassemble a Demag CC 3800-1 on site after the latter completed its last lift.
“We’ll first be using it primarily as an assist crane for our Demag CC 3800 in wind turbine projects. But it will also be extremely useful for installing prefab concrete elements. In fact, we ordered the crane with two winches precisely because of this,” said Steil.
Vincent Stenger, product manager, Tadano, said: “The Tadano GTC 1800EX offers high lifting capacities even at an angle of inclination of up to 4°. It is designed in such a way that it can be transported very efficiently, and it only takes one heavy-load lowbed trailer that can handle the base crane’s compact 3 x 3 m (w x h) transport size and four standard trucks to get it to a work site. Once there, it can be set up quickly in just a few steps. The crane’s powerful carrier delivers high tractive power and allows for stepless variable track width adjustment – even asymmetrical configurations are possible, which make it an extremely versatile machine under all terrain conditions.”
“With the GTC 1800EX, we have put an enormously powerful and competitive crawler crane on the market. We’re so confident in our development approach and the corresponding results to date that we’re currently working on a roadmap in Germany to bring additional GTC models to market. We’re coordinating this with the Tadano GTC product line, which is developed in the USA,” added Vincent.