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Tailor-made handling and lifting solutions
Luffng cranes 100t for Vard Braila.
Cimolai Technology is a worldwide, leading company that provides special and innovative solutions for handling and lifting purposes since 2004. The company’s lengthy experience and valuable expertise enable it to be at the forefront of the special equipment feld. It aims at studying and designing the best tailor-made solutions so as to be a key partner in its customers’ challenges and projects.
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The company’s main facilities are based in the Northeast of Italy, in Carmignano di Brenta (PD) where the machines are designed, developed and assembled and in San Quirino (PN) where all the machines’ structures and mechanisms are produced.
Cimolai Technology designs and manufactures special equipment to be used in diferent sectors, mostly in shipbuilding, shipyards, marinas and ports; but also for civil works in precast yards, in industries, steel mills and renewable energy felds, for special and innovative equipment when tailor-made solutions are required.
Tyres, rails, cranes
For the Shipbuilding, the fagship of Cimolai Technology are the selfpropelled portal cranes on tyres. For Fincantieri, the company has supplied two units with a capacity of 1,000t each, which are used for the manufacturing and the setting up of cruise boats. Each of the two units has a span of 60m, a height of 60m and four independent lifting points so as to lift ship blocks up to 1,000t and turn elements up to 500t. The two portal cranes travel on 64 tyres and are provided with Diesel engines that supply a total power of 1,600Hp. The control of the machines is managed by remote control and the system is assisted by GPS. The equipment is also provided with a tele-system which allows for the supervision from a remote workstation.
Cimolai Technology Spa can also supply solutions on rails, such as lufng and >>
Mobile Straddle Transporters 1,000t – Fincantieri Shipyard.
Goliath crane 320t – Cantiere Navale Visentini.
goliath cranes, that are used to manufacture ships, as the goliath crane supplied for Cantiere Navale Visentini at Porto Viro (RO). The crane with a capacity of 320t is equipped with two independent hooks that allow combined manoeuvres at max loads, aimed to facilitate the operations of lifting, turning and positioning of ship blocks.
Moreover, the company has recently installed four lufng cranes for Vard Braila SA in Romania, each of them with a capacity of 100t at 30m, and a lufng crane in San Giorgio del Porto in Italy, with a capacity of 30t at 20m.
Cimolai Technology Spa is delivering 23 lufng cranes that will be installed at the IMI Shipyard located at the King Salman International Complex in Saudi Arabia. The shipment will be fnalised by March 2023 and required almost 1,000 containers to stow the crane parts.
CIMOLIFT
Regarding the lifting and transportation operation in the Shipbuilding industry,
Self-propelled modular trailers 220t each.
Cimolai Technology has implemented the range of its products with the manufacture of the frst CIMOLIFT, a ship lifting platform of 19m x 95m having a capacity of 3,300t, which has been installed in Palumbo Superyachts Shipyard in Ancona. The CIMOLIFT has been completely developed, designed and manufactured by Cimolai Technology which has also taken care of the on-site installation of the whole system.
The wide range of Cimolai Technology Spa’s products also includes selfpropelled modular trailers SPMT and rail transfer systems to support the ship lifting platform or to be used independently to perform the transportation and parking operations of the vessels within the shipyards.
Mobile Boat Hoist
For the shipbuilding and the reft yards, Cimolai Technology has recently supplied a Mobile Boat Hoist 1500 in Mauritius – which is actually the biggest unit in the world. Moreover, by the end of next year, the company will supply another unit with a capacity of 1,500t to Hyak Maritime in Oregon, USA. This machine will be fully electric, showing once again the Veneto-based company’s innovative capacity and its orientation towards environmentally friendly and sustainable products meeting the market needs.
The know-how of the company and the commitment to always produce more and better allow Cimolai Technology to be a worldwide ideal partner for the supply of lifting and transportation of equipment for the shipbuilding industry.
