MLC650

• The crane is owned by Shinui Petra and comes with Manitowoc’s 3.5 m wide boom kit option – it is the first MLC650 outside of North America to utilize this performance-enhancing attachment. 
• Due to difficult site conditions, no other crane could be used – with its VPC-MAX technology, the MLC 650 requires only 10% of the ground preparation compared with competitors.

• IEA used four Manitowoc crawler cranes, two MLC650s and two MLC300s, for the installation of turbines at a wind farm in Texas and was impressed with the quality and performance of the cranes.
• To monitor wear to the cranes’ undercarriages, Manitowoc’s Lift Solutions developed a custom-made wear gauge system. 
• Over the course of the project, the four crawler cranes installed nearly 200 tower pad sites and crisscrossed over 600 miles.

Cianbro is the latest company to take advantage of the barge-mounted benefits that Manitowoc crawler cranes with Variable Position Counterweight (VPC) offer. The Pittsfield Maine-based construction firm is using a Manitowoc MLC650 to help replace two aging transmission towers on the James River near Charles City Virginia. The new towers will help feed energy from a nearby nuclear plant to the surrounding area when construction is completed.