25.05.2022

New 700 tonner for Scholpp

German crane rental company Scholpp Kran & Transport has taken delivery of a 700 tonne Liebherr LTM 1650-8.1 All Terrain crane.

The eight axle LTM 1650-8.1 is equipped with the basic four section 54 metre boom which can be converted to the six section 80 metre boom if and when required. The four section boom combined with a 16 metre extension topped with the maximum 91 metre luffing jib, provides a maximum tip height of 158 metres with a capacity of up to 12.3 tonnes at a radius of 52 metres.
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The crane includes the Liccon 2 crane control systems, remote controls, Vario Base variable outrigger set up with automatic monitoring and custom load chart calculation as well as the Vario Ballast adjustable counterweight system.
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The new crane becomes a joint flagship for the Stuttgart based company alongside a 700 tonne Demag AC 700-9 which it has been operating for the past three years. Scholpp Kran & Transport runs a fleet of 84 All Terrain and truck cranes along with a fleet of loader cranes, tracked spider cranes and self-erecting mobile tower cranes, from the head office and four branches - Leonberg – west of Stuttgart, Ludwigshafen, Heilbronn and Karlsruhe.

Scholpp was established in 1956 by Alfred Scholpp after he came up with a concept for a lattice truck crane which he took to the recovery vehicle manufacturer Kässbohrer in Ulm, which took his sketch and developed Scholpp’s first mobile crane, the KS 36.
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Scholpp’s first crane the Kässbohrer KS 36

In 2014 Martin Scholpp purchased Scholpp Kran & Transport from the extended Scholpp crane, heavy transport and logistics business, a year after German private equity firm Odewald & Compagnie had acquired a 49 percent stake in the overall group.