Offloading, Shifting, and Standing Up 12no Tanks

Synergy Lifting were approached by an international company setting up a new foam manufacturing facility in the UK. Part of this new factory setup needed 12no tanks putting into position in a very tight space.

The 12no tanks, weighing 7te each, were delivered to site and offloaded into laydown areas outside the new factory. To offload them, we utilised a Liebherr LTM 1060-3.1 mobile crane.

We then positioned each tank in front of the factory ingress point and used two pick and carry cranes to take them inside – a Valla 120E electric pick and carry crane and a Valla 75 electric pick and carry crane. As you can see from the project photos, it was a very tight fit! Thanks to our skillful operators, all 12no tanks were taken in through this tight opening without any issues.

The hard part was yet to come. The tanks now needed to be lifted into a pit and then standing up and positioning inside the pit. The first tank was brought alongside the pit and a city crane was utilised to lift it into the pit. We then used the city crane and one of our pick and carry cranes to top and tail the tank. Headroom was particularly tight so this had to be done under ridge of the roof. We then had to skate the tank along into its final position using a custom jig we created for this particular job. This then had to be repeated another 11 times!

On this job, we also assisted with other work such as the installation of overhead cranes.

Another firm had already been approached to look at this work prior to Synergy Lifting but they had not been able to commit. Understandably, this was not just a straightforward crane hire job. This work needed a firm with multiple disciplines. Offloading the tanks was straightforward. Shifting them inside needed our specialist pick and carry cranes. Lowering them into the put and standing them up was only made possible by our careful planning and skilled team.

If you have new equipment being delivered to your factory and the site constraints make it a difficult task for ingress or positioning then get in touch with us. Likewise, we can also remove old equipment from factories too.