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Transport of piece to the port of Bilbao with measurements 52 m long x 5.5 m wide x 4.9 m high – 300 t.

Transport piece with special characteristics 25.50 meters long, 6 meters in diameter with a height of 7.5 and 178 tons carried out by Transportes Transbiaga.

Transbiaga continues its growth in the Nordic market, and has begun the installation of a project with a new turbine from the manufacturer Nordex, 25 N163/5.X towers assembled on a 168m hybrid concrete and steel turbine, located in the town of Oulainen, Finland.

Manufacturers increasingly want to go higher with turbines, and in recent years it has become a competition to see who can go higher, which has been a great engineering challenge. Transbiaga, with its history of more than 1,000 concrete towers assembled on its back, is contributing its experience and knowledge to this prototype that will mark the future of high wind turbines, and which puts Transbiaga and its client Nordex at the forefront of world’s wind industry.

10 years after the first wind farm built by Transbiaga in Peru, which was the first wind energy project in the country, Transbiaga returns to the city of Marcona to build a new wind farm for its regular customer Acciona Energy. This project will consist of 23 Nordex’ turbines model N163-5.7 with 148m high steel tower.
 
Transbiaga will have an LR1600 and an LG1750 as main cranes, and unlike the previous projects in Peru, this time also together with the own installation team.

San Juan de Marcona, located in the desert of the Ica region in the southern zone of Peru, is located in one of the driest and windiest regions in the world. Transbiaga will have its machinery and highly qualified personnel to be able to build this project on dates and with the main objective of 0 accidents.

Transbiaga has started the installation of a new wind farm in Chile. Puelche Sur project, located in the communes of Frutillar and Puerto Octay, in Los Lagos Region, will have 33 turbines model N149-4.8 erected on a 145m high steel tower, from Nordex Energy. For this purpose, Transbiaga will have an LR1600/2W and an LG1750 from its own fleet as main cranes, in addition to all its installation team in order to be able to complete the assembly of a new project before the deadlines.

This project will have an estimated capacity of 153 MW, equivalent to the consumption of at least 180 thousand homes per year.

Three crane LG 1750 lattice boom mobile cranes from Transbiaga make their debut at the Gecama wind farm (Cuenca), the largest wind farm in Spain built in a single phase.

Transbiaga's crane LG 1750 cranes will assemble 67 120-meter-high wind towers under hubs.

In addition, another crane LG 1750 is also operating.

Three Transbiaga  LG 1750 lattice boom mobile cranes are making their debut at the Gecama wind farm (Cuenca), assembling 67 120-meter-high wind towers under hubs. Four crane LG 1750 lattice boom mobile cranes are working at the Gecama wind farm (Cuenca), to carry out the assembly of 67 120-meter-high wind towers under hub, whose concrete tower sections weigh up to 255 tons, the nacelle and generator, model DELTA4000 from Nordex weighing 140 tons, and the wind blades weighing 21 tons and 74 meters long.

Transbiaga is perfectly familiar with the operation of the crane LG 1750 lattice boom mobile crane model, as they already have five other units in their machinery pool. In addition to operational needs, we decided to go for this crane model because of its high lifting capacity and mobility, factors that meet the needs and requirements of a wind farm. Likewise, with the new acquisition, equipped with the SX jib system and which is designed for the assembly of heavy equipment on high wind towers, we will be able to meet our work expectations. On the other hand, it also has the SX configuration, thanks to which we will be able to meet the demands of the wind turbines of the future. For all these reasons, we requested that it be configured for the maximum height of 165 meters of main boom and with F jib.

Transbiaga's three crane LG 1750 units perfectly complement the rest of its machinery, since we use them as main cranes for the assembly of wind farms, making them indispensable for carrying out this type of project in the most efficient way and with the highest possible quality. They are appropriate equipment when carrying out this type of operation, since being a self-propelled mobile crane allows us to move between platforms, occupying a smaller width than a crawler crane. In addition, as it has a high load capacity and great height, it allows us to lift wind turbine components in a safe and reliable way, as well as effectively. Transbiaga's work focuses mainly on Latin America and northern Europe, especially in the assembly of wind farms. In order to carry out this type of project, they also have eight Liebherr LR 1600/2W narrow-gauge crawler cranes.

^{Assembly of the concrete tower sections, weighing up to 255 tons, the nacelle and generator, model DELTA4000 from Nordex weighing 140 tons, and the wind blades weighing 21 tons and 74 meters long.}

Largest wind farm in Spain

This is the largest wind farm built in a single phase in Spain. Located in the province of Cuenca, will cover an area of 41 km2 and will have a road network of nearly 80 kilometers in length. In terms of energy, the Gecama wind farm will offer an installed capacity of more than 300 megawatts, generating around 1,000 gigawatts per year and saving 160,000 tons of CO2 emissions.

For Transbiaga, working on the assembly of the Gecama wind farm entails that "we are proud that clients as renowned as Nordex trust us to carry out this type of wind projects, which means that we are one of the references in the sector worldwide, both for the capacity of our fleet and work teams, and for maintaining high safety and quality standards. The construction of this wind farm is part of a series of projects that Transbiaga has been carrying out in Spain for Nordex, one of its largest clients, for many years. In addition, they have other active projects in Sweden, Chile, Mexico and Puerto Rico, with plans to expand to other countries in 2022.

Transbiaga has a fleet of machinery consisting of 49 cranes, 43 of which are Liebherr telescopic mobile cranes and crawler cranes with lattice boom,

At Transbiaga we continue betting on the Heavy lift with the continuous renewal of our fleet with Mercedes Actros 3363LS / 8x4 tractors for 250tns

Recently TRANSBIAGA has started the construction of a new wind farm in Mexico, which will be one of the last wind energy construction projects in the country before the stoppage in the installation of these renewable energies planned by the Mexican Government for the next years.

The project, located in the Ejido Hipólito, in the municipality of General Cepeda, Coahuila, will consist of 20 turbines of the new N155 of Nordex, at 120 meters high Concrete Towers.

It will have a maximum installed capacity of 96MW and will be able to supply the equivalent of 150,000 homes per year.