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Sennebogen

The “Gentle Giant” ? nds a home in Turkey

When it comes to working effectively panamax and post-panamax ships. Its area, moving quickly up and down the in any port of any size around the world, operators move quickly, perched in the pier. By not using diesel, we also save a most will attest that safe and ef? cient Skylift cab (pictured above) as much as lot of money every year.” Nevertheless, heavy life capacity is an unmatched tool 72 ft. (22 m) above ground level. “We one would expect a signi? cant energy in the toolbox. handle 10,000,000 tons a year in this cost simply to move the 895’s huge lift-

To that end, meet what is touted as the port alone,” saod Harun Karaarslan, ing boom and stick – itself a 53-ton steel world’s largest purpose-built material Tosyali’s Technical Port Director at Isk- structure. handler, a 460-ton electrically powered enderun, in one of the Turkey’s largest The ‘Gentle Giant’ features a Green giant, the Sennebogen 895 E-Series metal producing areas. “Our machines Hybrid energy re-capture system engi-

Hybrid, recently commissioned for the are in constant use. We rely on our ? eet neered into the 895’s boom hydraulics.

Tosyali Holdings ? eet, at the Mediter- to be producing constantly; downtime A pair of large hydraulic cylinders are ranean port of Iskenderun. would be fatal.” Tosyali’s facility oper- mounted to either side of the main lift- ates a total of seven material handlers, ing cylinders. On each downstroke of

Giant Sized Productivity including two 600,000 lb. Sennebogen the boom, the Green Hybrid cylinders

A convoy of 16 trucks transported the 880 EQ balance cranes. Both the 880s hydraulically compress the gas in the machine to Turkey, and Sennebogen’s also run on electric drive. storage modules at the rear of the up-

Turkish distributor, Forsen Machinery, per carriage. On the next lift cycle, the required just a few days to assemble its compressed gas is released to give the Electri? ed Ef? ciency crawler platform, con? gure the set-up “Our experience with Sennebogen lift cylinders a power assist, effectively for Tosyali, and test run the 670 hp (500 machines has shown us that using elec- offsetting the boom’s own weight, much kW) drive. Fitted with a 13-yard orange tric material handlers does not mean as a compressed spring generates energy peel grapple, it can reach out to 130 ft. compromising on and ? exibility or when it’s released. As a result, the re- (40 m) to grab 12 tons (10,900 kg) of speed; quite the opposite. Despite their capture system saves up to 55% of the scrap on every bite from the holds of size, the machines cover a large work energy for every lift.

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