SCRAP METAL
WORLD’S LARGEST MATERIAL HANDLER FOR SCRAP SENNEBOGEN’S “GENTLE GIANT” FINDS A HOME IN THE PORT OF ISKENDERUN, TURKEY
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he world’s largest purposebuilt conventional material handler, the 460-ton SENNEBOGEN 895 E-Series Hybrid, was originally unveiled at bauma 2019 in Germany. This massive machine was commissioned in October for the Tosyali Holdings fleet, at the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, Turkey, in one of the country’s largest metal-producing regions. Since then, the 895 has been moving massive amounts of scrap metal –
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around the clock, every day. Electrically powered, the machine never needs to take a break for refuelling, according to SENNEBOGEN, and as one observer noted, walking near the 895 conjures “images of Jurassic Park,” where tiny humans tread lightly past peacefully grazing brontosauruses.
PRODUCTIVITY ON A GIANT SCALE
Everything about this machine is big and record-breaking. A convoy of 16 trucks transported the machine to
Turkey. SENNEBOGEN’s Turkish distributor, Forsen Machinery, required just a few days to assemble its gantrystyle crawler platform, configure the setup for Tosyali, and test run the 670-hp (500 kW) drive. Fitted with a 13-yard orange peel grapple, this material handler can reach out to 130 feet (40 m) to grab 12 tons (10,900 kg) of scrap on every bite from the holds of panamax and post-panamax ships. Its operators move quickly, perched in the highly responsive and accurate elevating
