Mammoet adds 10 new towers to Mega Jack 800 system
DUBAI, October 11, 2021
Mammoet, the world’s largest engineered heavy lifting and transport provider, has expanded its range of equipment with 10 new towers for its Mega Jack 800 model.
The system has been fully engineered in-house with assembly, testing and commissioning done in the group's R&D facility at Breda city in Netherlands.
Mammoet first introduced the Mega Jack 800 system in 2014. It was originally designed to operate on barges to support the installation of bridges, and has since proven to be a powerful, efficient, and safe jacking system for civil infrastructure developments, port expansions and in construction of petrochemical plants.
With the lifting capacity of 800 tonne per tower, the Mega Jack 800 offers a highly effective solution in challenging environments. It operates within a compact footprint so reduces impact on other operations such as flow of traffic, movement of cargo or flow of product.
According to Mammoet, the system is now available for an even greater number of projects around the world.
"Demand for the Mega Jack 800 system is high as it is proven to increase safety, efficiency and productivity in a number of different applications," explained Ronald Hoefmans, the company’s head of R&D and Fabrication.
"As frequent users of jacking systems we have extensive expertise and understand precisely what is important; what capacity the system needs, and what features are necessary to ensure safe and reliable operation," noted Hoefmans.
The system is controlled remotely by computer, also developed in-house at Mammoet, with an accurate stroke control system designed to spread the load over the different cylinders in the system.
This allows highly accurate, simultaneous operation of the towers, something that is not possible with manual jacking systems. Importantly, this built-in intelligence minimizes the need for interaction with the machinery and therefore further optimizes on site safety, he noted.
According to him, the Mega Jack 800 towers are also designed to operate with any power pack, including more sustainable electrical packs, offering customers the ability to reduce the overall carbon footprint of a project.
"Boosting availability of the Mega Jack 800 towers gives our global customers more opportunities to save time, operate more safely and reduce disruption across a range of projects," stated Hoefmans.
The Mega Jack 800 system is just one part of Mammoet’s comprehensive range of jacking solutions, from standard hydraulic jacks, through the push-up system, to the Mega Jack 800’s sister systems - the 300t per tower capacity Mega Jack 300 and 5200t per tower capacity Mega Jack 5200, he added.-TradeArabia News Service
