09.12.2006

Partytime at Spierings

Around 1,500 visitors joined the Spierings crane team today at the company’s production facility and Headquarters in Oss, the Netherlands for a party and open day.

Spierings had plenty to celebrate, it was the official unveiling of its new seven axle model SK 2400- AT 7. The first of the high capacity models which is now ready for delivery to Verschoor of Sassenheim, Holland. Vershoor is developing a habit for taking the first examples of new Spierings models.

The company has also just completed its 500th mobile tower crane and will celebrate its 20th anniversary at Bauma next year.

The new seven axle SK 2400- AT 7 was announced just before Christmas last year (See Spierings to launch 7 axle) and was planned with a lifting capacity of five tonnes at 42 metres radius and an under hook height of 36 metres. As well as taking the five tonnes up to its 56 metres maximum hook height..
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The new seven axle Spierings

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The new seven axle Spierings raises its tower

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Tower up the jib unfolds

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Up and ready to lift

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The new Spierings seven axle crane will take six tonnes out to 42 metres

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Handling a 14 tonne wheel loader at 20 metres radius demonstrates this cranes strength

The final calculations and following thorough stability testing by Dutch notified body, Aboma/Keboma, confirmed that the crane can in fact handle six tonnes at 42 metres radius and 38 metres hook height, allowing for a wind force of Beaufort Force six.
The crane can also take the six tonnes up to its maximum hook height.

As a result it has been christened as “The Spierings crane with the 120 percent load chart” capable, the company says, of replacing a regular 300 tonne telescopic mobile crane.
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Jacq Reijnders,(L) head of purchasing at Spierings talks to Roel Beer head of sales

The new crane demonstrated its prowess by lifting a 14 tonne Caterpillar IT38G loader to a radius of 20 metres. The cranes maximum lift capacity is 18 tonnes at almost 16 metres radius.
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The 500th Spierings crane sold to RKB

The second event of the day was the hand-over of the 500th Spierings crane built so far. The crane, a model SK 1265- AT 6, has been sold to crane hirer, RKB of Ridderkerk. RKB (Ridderkerks Kraanwagen Bedrijf) took delivery of the first ever Spierings crane back in 1987.
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Leo Spierings preparing to hand over the 500th crane that he has built

The company is the only Dutch crane rental company to have an exclusive Spierings fleet, with a total of 15 units of different models. The crane was handed over by owner and managing director, Leo Spierings to his first and most loyal customer Arie Dijksman, owner of RKB, his wife Anita and their son Erwin. Please register to see all images

Leo Spierings presents Arie Dijksman with a picture of everyone at Spierings with their 500th crane

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(L-R) Leo Spierings toasts the Dijksman family, Arie, wife Joke, daughter Anita and Son Erwin

Spierings said that the company has an increasingly strong order book. With a particularly healthy increase of sales in Germany, Austria and Switzerland according to the company’s sales engineer for the region, Ralf van der Linde. Celebrating its 20th birthday at Bauma therefore seems appropriate.
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Pleanty of Erwtensoep mit worst & Spek, the Dutch classic green pea soup was on hand

In the meantime visitors were treated to ErwtenSoep met worst and Spek the traditional Dutch green pea soup and bacon sandwiches:
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Leo Spierings talks to Jolanda Bevers as Nico Selier gives a suspicious look