07.07.2013

First job for 4,000 tonne XCMG

Sinopec Engineering’s 4,000 tonne XCMG XGC88000 crawler crane has carried out its first commercial lift.

The crane, which was developed jointly by XCMG and Sinopec Engineering, successfully lifted and installed a 118 metre high, 1,679 tonne propylene tower at an industrial park in Yantai city, in north east Shandong Province.

The lift follows a full testing programme in which XCMG claimed a world record lift when the 88,000 tonne metre crane raised a 4,500 tonne test load on a 60 metre boom at a radius of just over 17 metres.
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The 88,000 tonne/metre XGC88000 on the large tonnage testing site