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15 July 2015

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Africa's Largest Tonnage Crawler Crane Made in Changsha

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On the vast land of South Africa, a green-coated crawler crane, spreading in the air in a "V" shape, successfully completed the lifting work of wind turbine towers for a key wind power project, which drew praise from on-site construction personnel. A 1,250-tonne crawler crane produced by Zoomlion was recently successfully delivered to customers in South Africa and completed its first lift, becoming the crawler crane with the greatest lifting capacity in Africa.

In recent years, Changsha's construction machinery and equipment have sped up to enter the African market, with concrete machinery occupying the largest African market share. The crawler crane that recently arrived in Africa is one of Zoomlion's super large general hoisting equipment star products, and it is the first ultra-high wind power hoisting product in the industry that breaks through the limitation of 190-meter wind power hoisting height and has a rated lifting weight of 185 tonnes.

Zoomlion tapped into the African market in 2007, making it one of the earliest enterprises in China's equipment manufacturing industry to do so. The company has established a relatively mature sales network system and a three-dimensional localized operation pattern in Africa, and created records such as exporting China's largest tower crane to Africa.


The crawler crane lifts a wind turbine tower. (Photo/Yang Muyi, Changsha Evening News)


The handover ceremony of the crawler crane. (Photo/Yang Muyi, Changsha Evening News)


Source: en.changsha.gov.cn