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TECH FILES

Cimolai: Giving Workboats a Heavy Lift

While lifting superyachts or work- high-pro? le global projects, such as the it more versatility and ? exibility. It is metric tons which is currently the big- boats may sometimes appear seamless, set of lock gates of the Panama Canal, equipped with two engines that comply gest worldwide, little by little it has it is not an easy job. Italy’s Cimolai the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, with Stage IV/EPA Tier 4 Final stan- ranked as a top supplier of large-size

Technology is long-experienced with the Bayonne bridge in New Jersey, the dards, as Cimolai Technology’s equip- lifting equipment. a broad project portfolio of delivering Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, ment meets speci? c anti-pollution re- For the maritime industry, not only some of the largest boat hoists world- the Louis Armstrong Stadium and the quirements of each country where the has Cimolai Technology specialized in wide. WTC New Transportation hub in New company operates. the manufacturing of boat hoists, but

Cimolai Technology is an Italian York, to name a few. The delivery of the MBH 1000 is the also of handling systems for various company specialized in the design With this background, Roberto Cimo- result of a new need in the boat lift- purposes, such as gantry cranes on rails and manufacture of special lifting and lai – Armando’s youngest son – to- ing sector, as demands for larger and or on tyres, modular trolleys, ship-lift handling equipment for the maritime gether with a team of skilled engineers greater capacity boat hoists are grow- platforms and transfer systems. industry, as well as for civil works and established Cimolai Technology S.p.A. ing, not only in the yacht industry but Soon a new ambitious project will be special applications. A family run com- that has grown and become internation- also in shipbuilding and repair of work- completed in Italy: Palumbo Group, a pany, Cimolai Technology is part of a ally renowned, a staff with high engi- ing vessels, military and tugs. Cimolai renowned Italian shipyard, has com- group headed by a leader in the steel neering skills leading Cimolai Tech- Technology, in fact, has been awarded missioned Cimolai Technology to de- industry, Cimolai S.p.A., which was nology to be a supplier of customized, the supply of a mobile boat hoist with sign and construct a ship-lift platform, set up soon after the end of WWII by special handling solutions for various a lifting capacity of 1300 metric tons capacity 3300 metric tons to launch

Armando Cimolai and his wife, Albina. ? elds of activities and applications. for Bayonne Dry Dock & Repair Corp., and dry-dock ships. The project will

They started in a small workshop pro- Recently, Cimolai Technology has serving the busy New York/New Jersey engage a team of Cimolai Technol- ducing steel gates and windows, and delivered to the shipyard S.T.P.-Servi- market on the east coast of the United ogy’s engineers that will work to have few years later, thanks also to the ad- cios Técnicos Portuarios- in Palma de States. The equipment will be deliv- the platform ready to be used by early vent of their sons, the business expand- Mallorca, Spain, the model MBH 1000: ered in mid-2019 and will be the big- 2019.

ed up to becoming an “empire of the a boat hoist that is 26-m long, 12.5-m gest boat hoist worldwide, while in “The secret is offering our customers steel construction industry”, as a mat- wide and 25-m high and can lift up to early 2019 a 1,120-ton unit will be de- what they need, tailoring our equip- ter of fact the group today processes 1000-metric tons boats: reportedly the livered to BSE Group Assets PTY LTD ment speci? cally to ful? ll their re- 150,000 metric tons of steel structures biggest boat hoist in Europe for its size in Australia., making it the largest in quirements with the latest technologies per year in 10 workshops, with 3,000 and lifting capacity. This equipment that area. and state-of-the-art solutions, with no employees and a worldwide coverage has been speci? cally studied and de- Since 2011 when the company de- limits, to be at the forefront of the in- of more than 58 countries. Cimolai signed to adapt to the shipyard’s needs livered in Qatar the MBH 1100, a boat dustry. This is our mission.” said CEO

S.p.A. has participated in a number of with special technical features that give hoist with a lifting capacity of 1100 Roberto Cimolai.

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