27.10.2008

Kier takes new Hitachi

Kier Plant has taken delivery of a new 70 tonne Hitachi-Sumitomo SCX700 machine from the manufacturer’s UK distributor NRC Plant.
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(L-R) Rod Abbott of NRC hands the crane keys to Pat Glynn and Eddy Carr of Kier Plant.

The 70 tonne Japanese-built lift crane is rated at a radius of 3.5 metres and is equipped with main and auxiliary winches and a boom of up to 54 metres with offset fly jibs of up to 18m.

The purchase is the first that Kier Plant has made since it returned to investing in crawler cranes, following the successful development in recent years of its tower crane rental business.

The company says that crawler cranes will feature increasingly in its crane fleet going forward as it builds up to service the Kier Group construction division’s capabilities in new power station and infrastructure projects.

The crane has been erected and commissioned at the £100m Kier Construction West Burton power station project for client EDF. The first of nine cranes of various types to be deployed on the civil engineering works.