SERVICES FOR THE HIGHEST STANDARDS WASEL COMPANY PROFILE LOCATIONS AND CONTACTS SERVICE DOWNLOADS NEWS AND PROJECTS JOBS AT WASEL Contact WASEL GmbH Walter-Gropius-Straße 1 D-50126 Bergheim, Germany Phone: +49 2271-465-0 Fax: +49 2271-465-120 E-Mail: mail@wasel-krane.de CRANE GIANTS OVER BERLIN The Gasometer Schöneberg used to be a low-pressure gas tank on the former GASAG site, which was decommissioned in 1995. After decommissioning and dismantling, only the listed 78-metre-high tank frame remained. This is considered a landmark and symbol of Schöneberg. From around 2024, the striking structure will enrich the city's EUREF campus with attractive concepts for its utilisation. more November 2021 AT LAST! A CLEAR VIEW OF COLOGNE CATHEDRAL In a spectacular project, the last remaining sections of the suspended scaffolding were removed from the north tower of Cologne Cathedral. Millimetre work and a sure instinct were required because, as with the implementation of any project, quality and safety were paramount. Especially on Cologne Cathedral! The work on one of Germany's World Heritage Sites required the highest precision and above all: extraordinary teamwork. more October 2021 COLOGNE LIGHT RAIL PROJECT WAIDMARKT At a memorable location – where the Historical Archives of the City of Cologne collapsed at Waidmarkt eleven years ago, on 3 March 2009 - a so-called “track change” is being built for the North-South Cologne light rail system. A WASEL tower crane has been installed for the upcoming project phase, which will take several years. more September 2021 THIS IS HOW COMPACT SIZE CAN BE! Mobile construction cranes are designed to be compact and manoeuvrable and therefore predestined for use in densely built-up inner cities or construction projects with tight space conditions. With a new LIEBHERR MK 88-4.1, WASEL is expanding its existing fleet of mobile construction cranes with another machine of the latest design. more August 2021 WASEL AND HAGEDORN JOIN FORCES Pact for structural change: : family-owned companies from North Rhine-Westphalia combine to form an all-round service provider for structural change with over 1,100 employees and more than 1,000 vehicles and large equipment. more July 2021 MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY FROM A SINGLE SOURCE WASEL GmbH has supported one of the leading crane manufacturers in Europe with a project in Duisburg. The company, which specialises in special, process and automatic cranes (from ~50t to 650t), supplied a crane system manufactured to individual customer specifications. more June 2021 DREAM APARTMENTS FOR RODENKIRCHEN A new urban quarter for living and working is currently being built on an area of more than 43,000 m² in Cologne-Rodenkirchen. Four tower cranes from WASEL are working almost silently high above the roofs of Rodenkirchen, ensuring smooth construction processes on the jobsite. more Mai 2021 THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS With a brand-new LIEBHERR LTR 1220 telescopic crawler crane, WASEL now boasts the technical optimum in its class. These types of cranes combine the advantages of a telescopic with those of a crawler crane. more April 2021 REINFORCEMENT OF THE CRAWLER CRANE PORTFOLIO In early summer this year, WASEL will be one of the first customers to receive the newly introduced LR 1700-1.0 crawler crane from LIEBHERR. more March 2021 BARELY HERE AND ALREADY AN “ARTIST” In one of its first deployments, the new LTM 1650-8.1 demonstrated its qualities as a loadmaster when handling a 105-ton load in Düsseldorf's Künstlerhafen. more February 2021 THE NEW POWERHOUSE IS HERE! With a load capacity of 700 tons, the new Liebherr LTM1650-8.1 is the maximum on eight axles. It is now available to the customers of WASEL GmbH. more January 2021 A NEW POWERHOUSE FOR OUTDOOR OPERATION The all-wheel-drive 510 HP MAN truck with a Palfinger loading crane is designed for use in maintenance work in the field of water management. more October 2020 ASSEMBLY ON A HELICOPTER PLATFORM A new helipad was recently constructed at the St.-Katharinen-Hospital in the German town of Frechen to optimise the hospital’s emergency treatment facilities. The bridge connecting the helipad to the lift tower has now been constructed with the help of a 300 t mobile crane. more October 2020 EYE-TO-EYE WITH THE CATHEDRAL Where construction cranes complete their work almost silently above the roofs of Cologne, there are frequently units from our fleet of 400 hire cranes in operation. more September 2020 REASSEMBLY OF A 30 T COAL CONVEYOR BRIDGE In order to keep the downtime of the coal conveyor belt as brief as possible, the 30-metre-long bridge was pre-assembled not far from the actual installation site. more September 2020 40 T PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE SAFELY DELIVERED Pedestrians and cyclists from the city of Übach-Palenberg (in the German district of Heinsberg) can look forward to a new overpass into the Wurmtal local recreation area. The bridge, weighing 40 tonnes and spanning 26 metres, was transported to its destination at the beginning of August. more August 2020 PERSONALLY TAKING ACCEPTANCE OF NEW EQUIPMENT The last two out of a total of 20 new LIEBHERR mobile cranes acquired by WASEL GmbH in the 2020 business year were personally accepted by Matthias and Thomas Wasel at the Liebherr plant in the city of Ehingen. more July 2020 THE WASEL FLEET WELCOMES TWO NEW MEMBERS After already putting their first AC 45 City into service back in January, our crane drivers were recently able to collect not one, but two new machines of the same model from the TADANO DEMAG factory in the German town of Zweibrücken. more June 2020 185 T BRIDGING IN THE CITY OF FÜRTH An audience made up of young and old was treated to a special performance when, in the Bavarian city of Fürth, a large new pedestrian and cycle bridge was lifted and installed in its intended position. more June 2020 IN MEMORIAM Matthias Wasel sen. more April 2020 THREE NEW POWERHOUSES ARE READY AND WAITING WASEL recently placed three new Mercedes-Benz 3-axle “Arocs” semi-trailers into service. With their 6x4 drive concept and off-road licence, these strong new additions to the fleet can easily access any construction site. more April 2020 SMOOTH HANDLING OF CARGO ON THE DORTMUND-EMS CANAL When two 125 t containers have to be moved to a different mode of transport on their journey, high-performance mobile crane technology is an absolute must. more April 2020 FROM THE FACTORY STRAIGHT TO THE NIGHT SHIFT Due to the road closure required for its completion, a recent bridge dismantling project in the German city of Duisburg had to be carried out within a limited time frame. This was possible with the help of the new 400 ton-class LIEBHERR mobile crane, which immediately showed off its strengths after only recently being put into service. more March 2020 TWO NEW “STARS” Two brand-new Mercedes-Benz Type 1848 LS 4x2 semi-trailers fresh from the factory have now arrived at WASEL, equipped with state-of-the-art safety technology. more February 2020 THE STAR OF THE COMPACT CLASS The moment it was introduced as the Demag AC 40 two decades ago, the mobile crane set new standards when used in projects involving tight spaces and work in halls. Featuring a multitude of innovations, the successor to this successful initial model is now one of four AC 45 City cranes to start work at WASEL. more January 2020 A FESTIVE INDUSTRIAL WORKLOAD To minimise production stops, industrial plant overhauls are often also carried out on major public holidays. On Christmas Day and Boxing Day 2019, a total of four WASEL mobile cranes set out to work at a rolling mill. more December 2019 PUTTING A SMILE ON CHILDREN'S FACES WASEL has donated over 25,000 Euros to the "Dat kölsche Hätz" charity association for children suffering from cancer. more December 2019 RWE HONOURS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP At the RWE Power AG Supplier Day, WASEL was recognised as "2019 Supplier of the Year" and the partnership agreement was extended another ten years. more November 2019 WASEL IS AWARDED THE CREDITREFORM CREDIT RATING CERTIFICATE WASEL GmbH has once again been awarded the CrefoZert credit rating certificate by the credit risk management company Creditreform in the German city of Cologne. By awarding this certificate, Creditreform Köln has attested that the company still has an extraordinarily good credit rating in 2019/2020. more Novemer 2019 AN OLD RAILWAY VIADUCT IN STOLBERG IS REPLACED In the German town of Stolberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, work is currently being carried out on the reactivation of a former railway line. A new 35-metre-long bridge is being constructed to take the place of the demolished old Rüstbach Viaduct. In a recent project, WASEL was responsible for transporting and assembling bridge elements weighing 53 t with the help of a 500 t mobile crane. more Ocober 2019 NEW LTM 1230-5.1 FAST AND FLEXIBLE FOR ERECTING POWER LINES Its enormous telescope length of 75 metres made up the minds of those at Wasel GmbH to give the new mobile crane the task of erecting large electricity pylons for two new power lines with a total length of over 20 kilometres in North Rhine-Westphalia. more October 2019 A FAMILY OF ELEPHANTS MOVES TO COPENHAGEN While elephants living in the wild can cover hundreds of kilometres on foot every day, those living in central Europe require a bit of help when it comes to moving to a new home. The WASEL team recently tackled a real ‘jumbo’ project along these lines at Cologne Zoo. more September 2019 THE “SHIP OF TOLERANCE” HAS DOCKED After being built in Rostock in 2018 and temporarily stored in the ‘dockyard’ in Kreuzau at the start of 2019, the “Ship of Tolerance” has finally reached its destination port. The art installation will now remain in the Brückenkopf Park in the town of Jülich, where it will stand tall as a sign of tolerance, humanity and values of democracy and international understanding. more August 2019 MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE IS OUR MAIN FOCUS This is one of the main reasons behind our company’s continuous investments in the latest crane and vehicle technology, year after year. In 2019, we have brought a total of 23 LIEBHERR mobile cranes into service, the last of which, the LIEBHERR LTF 1060-4.1, was recently added to our fleet. more August 2019 HEAVYWEIGHT VEHICLES ON A CALM AND CAREFUL JOURNEY A construction site entrance leading right through a cemetery tends to be somewhat of an exception in the day-to-day life of a 400-ton mobile crane. more July 2019 A NEW ALL-WHEEL DRIVE MAN TRUCK WITH A LOADER CRANE WASEL recently expanded its transport fleet by procuring a brand-new MAN TGS 41.500 8x8 BB truck with a Palfinger loader crane straight from the production line. more July 2019 A TOWERING LINE-UP FOR THE FUTURE The new EC-B series of tower cranes from LIEBHERR, recently unveiled at BAUMA, is now in action at WASEL. During a trial installation, employees were instructed and trained on the technical innovations of the crane series. more June 2019 A HIGHLY ELECTRIFYING PROJECT WASEL’s latest project was electrifying in more ways than one as the company used its services to increase the height of electricity pylons in the German state of Lower Saxony in a project that started at the beginning of May. more Mai 2019 NEW 450-TON CRANE IN ACTION With the LTM 1450-8.1, WASEL offers a powerful mobile crane geared to efficient mobility, along with quick and easy set-up on the construction site. The crane travels on public roads with a 12-ton axle load including its 85 metre long telescopic boom, all supports and a complete hoist winch. As a result, it features extremely rapid preparation for use on the construction site, considering its performance class. more April 2019 FRED FLINTSTONE'S FIESTA SUSPENDED HIGH ABOVE COLOGNE? The car sculpture "Steinerne Zeit" ("Stone Age") from artist HA Schult is leaving the Museum für Aktionskunst in Cologne and moving to its new home. more März 2019 WASEL HAS A NEW "WORK HORSE" Fully-integrated construction site logistics on the most rugged terrain requires an adequate fleet of equipment. more März 2019 DISTINGUISHED WITH THE 2018 PARTNER AWARD WASEL GmbH was distinguished as the best partner firm in 2018 by a company in the petrochemical industry from the greater Cologne area. more März 2019 A NEW TRANSPORT VEHICLE FOR TRAFFIC SERVICES WASEL’s range of services include safety measures for construction sites and barriers and safe traffic routing measures for roads, major events and trade fairs. The company’s Traffic Services Department recently welcomed a brand-new transport vehicle straight from the production line. more February 2019 BIG WILLI IS GEARED UP FOR THE BOOT 2019 TRADE FAIR Every year, “BIG WILLI” transports more than 30 luxury yachts from the river Rhine to the Düsseldorf exhibition grounds for the company Messe Düsseldorf. This important piece of equipment recently underwent a technical refurbishment. more December 2018 A TANDEM HOIST MARKS THE ADVANCING ENERGY TRANSITION A coal conveyor bridge weighing approx. 100 tons at the abandoned Voerde Power Station was recently successfully dismantled. more November 2018 SUCCESSFUL DISMANTLING OF A COAL CONVEYOR BRIDGE This summer, after two years of preparation, a 480-metre-long former coal conveyor bridge in the German city of Gelsenkirchen was dismantled. more September 2018 WASEL RECEIVES STRATEGIC SUPPLIER AWARD WASEL was once again awarded the title of STRATEGIC SUPPLIER by the "purchasing performance" procurement department of the RWE Group, a major electricity and gas company. more September 2018 A WASEL TOWER CRANE "TOWERS" ABOVE THE STEGLITZER KREISEL BUILDING With an impressive height of 134 metres, this tower crane installed at the beginning of May is not only probably the tallest crane site in Berlin/Brandenburg but also offers a breathtaking view of the capital city below. The installation of this construction crane was certainly anything but ordinary. more June 2018 AN INDIVIDUAL VEHICLE CONCEPT FOR TOUGH TERRAIN WASEL recently met special demands made by a customer for transport requirements in the field of open-pit mining by purchasing two TATRA Phoenix 8x8 chassis. more April 2018 WASEL EXPANDS ITS FLEET IN BERGHEIM WASEL recently put two brand-new cranes from the LIEBHERR LRT model line into service. more March 2018 “FULL POWER AHEAD” FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION WASEL’s new 750-ton crawler crane has been in use since summer 2017. In the north-west of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, a wind farm is currently being constructed, which involves pulling turbine houses weighing 100 tons up to a height of 159 metres. more January 2018 THE HANDOVER OF THE KEYS FOR THE FIRST CRANES IN THE NEW LIEBHERR LRT MODEL LINE On 20th November 2017, Matthias Wasel was able to collect the first two of a total order of six rough-terrain cranes from the new LRT series from the Liebherr factory in the German town of Ehingen. more November 2017 THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COLOGNE CITY ARCHIVE – WASEL IS PART OF IT! The reconstruction of the Historical Archive in the German city of Cologne, which collapsed in 2009, is now well underway. The project is due to be completed by 2019. more August 2017 WASEL IS RANKED IN 29TH PLACE WASEL has achieved 28th place in the list of the world's largest companies in the specialised transport and crane industry. more August 2017 HUNTING DOWN CRIMINALS WITH WASEL Traces of a 15-year-old girl have been found in a car in a scrapyard in Cologne. Chief inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk suspect that they might have something to do with the case of the murder of Sarah Stellwag, in which two girls went missing in Leipzig and turned up again in Cologne. more July 2017 PRE-FABRICATED CONCRETE PARTS ARE ASSEMBLED AT RWTH AACHEN A new building for the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences is currently being constructed on the campus of RWTH Aachen University. One of the tasks involved in the construction work was lifting concrete trusses weighing up to 25 tons up into the building's 28-metre-high shell. more July 2017 NIGHT RIDERS Nine large pipes for an industrial condenser system, each weighing 32 tons and with a length of up to 40 metres, were recently transported through the Rhineland region of Germany on an overnight journey. more July 2017 WASEL EXPANDS ITS FLEET OF LARGE CRANES WASEL is responding to the development of the wind energy industry as it progresses towards larger and larger plants by investing in a next-generation crawler crane. more July 2017 DISASSEMBLY OF A 70-METRE LONG PIPELINE BRIDGE OVER THE RHINE-HERNE CANAL An old steel frame bridge that once belonged to the Graf Bismark coal mine and coking plant in the German city of Gelsenkirchen was recently disassembled. more Juni 2017 WASEL TOWER CRANES IN THE KALK DISTRICT OF COLOGNE A block of six-storey buildings is currently being constructed on a site covering around 15,000 square metres and located between the police headquarters and the Odyseeum museum in the Kalk district of Cologne. more Juni 2017 THE BERGHEIM STARLIGHT EXPRESS SETS OFF ON ITS JOURNEY The 2/2017 issue of the Mercedes-Benz "Transport" magazine features a report on the transportation of several heat exchangers, each weighing up to 138 tons, from Neubeckum to Hiltrup. more Mai 2017 "HEAVY TRANSPORT OF THE YEAR" FOR THE SECOND TIME RUNNING Readers of the German trade magazine SCHWERTRANSPORT (HEAVY TRANSPORT) have selected a WASEL project as "Heavy Transport of the Year 2017", thus enabling WASEL to be awarded the title for the second time running. more Mai 2017 WHO WILL BE WASEL'S "NEXT TOP MODEL"? Over a three-day period in April, WASEL employees recently enjoyed a new and unique experience in the form of a special photo shoot. more April 2017 A BRAND-NEW LOOK FOR OUR COMPANY HEADQUARTERS Comprehensive construction work on the extension and renovation of the infrastructure of the WASEL headquarters has now been completed after a total of one and a half years. more March 2017 33 NEW LIEBHERR CRANES FOR WASEL Doing nothing is just like going backwards! This is precisely why WASEL has decided to also continue to invest in its own fleet of cranes in 2017. This decision enables WASEL customers to benefit from the latest standards with regard to safety, reliability and efficiency in lifting technology. more February 2017 THE "KEY TO SUCCESS" IN DÜSSELDORF'S OLD CITY CENTRE Given the extremely small amount of space available at the heart of Düsseldorf's old city centre, a recent project involving the installation of a water tank weighing 1.3 tons on the roof of the private brewery "Zum Schlüssel" demanded the use of innovative lifting technology. more January 2017 FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TOWER CRANE OPERATOR Have you always wanted to experience the perspective of a tower crane operator? Well, now you can! more September 2016 A RUSSIAN FIGHTER JET ON THE HOOK Kall, a town nestled in Germany's Eifel region, was the scene of unusual "air acrobatics" involving a MIG 23 fighter jet. more September 2016 A NEW 100-TON BUCKET WHEEL FOR AN OPEN-PIT MINING EXCAVATOR RWE's Excavator 259 in the Hambach open-pit mine was recently the scene of a spectacular assembly project. After 57 years of operation, it was time to replace the 100-ton bucket wheel. more August 2016 WASEL IS RANKED IN 29TH PLACE WASEL has achieved 29th place in the list of the world's largest companies in the specialised transport and crane industry. more July 2016 A 75 METRE TOWER CRANE LEAVES SIEGBURG'S MICHAELSBERG A 400-ton telescopic crane disassembles a tower crane on Michaelsberg hill. The local newspaper, Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger, covers the story. more June 2016 WASEL "HEAVY TRANSPORT OF THE YEAR" Readers of the German trade magazine SCHWERTRANSPORT (HEAVY TRANSPORT) voted a WASEL project the "Heavy Transport of the Year 2016"! more Mai 2016 INNOVATIVE "ADDRIVE" SYSTEM FROM GOLDHOFER IN VEHICLE FLEET Trade fair innovation boosts the flexibility, efficiency and profitability of WASEL heavy goods transports. more Mai 2016 THE CHEMISTRY HAS TO BE RIGHT! The installation of a cooling element weighing 155 tons involves impressive teamwork between man (or better said, men) and machine(s). more April 2016 A HIGHLY FOCUSED TRANSPORT TEAM MASTERS A TOUGH TUNNEL When recently transporting a 29-metre-long heat storage tank weighing a total of 99 tons from the German town of Steinhagen to the Swiss city of Zurich, our transport team was confronted with a particularly special challenge. more March 2016 WASEL RECEIVES 37 NEW LIEBHERR CRANES Making no compromise on safety and technology is the maxim followed by WASEL. This was one of the main reasons behind the company's recent acquisition of a total of 37 new machines from the Liebherr brand, which is certainly an impressive number for the first half of 2016 alone! more January 2016 NIGHT-TIME BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION WORK ON THE A3 MOTORWAY A 500-ton telescopic mobile crane was recently used between the Cologne-Mülheim and Leverkusen interchanges on the German A3 motorway. more December 2015 PUTTING A SMILE ON CHILDREN'S FACES WASEL has donated over 27,000 Euros to the "Dat kölsche Hätz" charity association for children suffering from cancer. more November 2015 BP THANKS THOSE INVOLVED IN ITS PROJECT In mid-November, we received a letter from the management team of the company BP Gelsenkirchen GmbH expressly thanking all those involved in the project work on one of the largest turnarounds to be carried out for several years at its refinery plant in Scholven, Germany. more November 2015 WASEL RECEIVES STRATEGIC SUPPLIER AWARD WASEL was once again awarded the title of STRATEGIC SUPPLIER by the "purchasing performance" procurement department of the RWE Group, a major electricity and gas company. more November 2015 WE CAN'T YET WALK ON WATER, BUT ... ... with the help of a so-called ro-ro (roll-on roll-off) pontoon, we can also transport our heavy loads on waterways. more Oktober 2015 A 400-TONNER 'REACHES NEW HEIGHTS' Sometimes even a crane has to take a flight – in a figurative sense, of course. more Oktober 2015 AN ATTRACTIVE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR THE USE OF TOWER CRANES As a Liebherr dealer for tower cranes in the Berlin/Brandenburg region of Germany, the WASEL branch in Berlin has acquired an attractive construction project in Dresden, the capital city of the State of Saxony. more September 2015 INSTALLING A BUCKET WHEEL ON A MINING EXCAVATOR WITH MILLIMETRE PRECISION Excavator 291 used by RWE, a major European electricity and gas company, at the Tagebau Hambach open-pit mine recently formed the setting for a spectacular assembly project. After 32 years of operation, the excavator's 130-ton bucket wheel needed replacing. more September 2015 A THREE-WAY HOIST USED WITH A SHIP-TO-SHORE CRANE In the German town of Rheinberg, situated on the banks of the Rhine, the slewing ring of a ship-to-shore crane had to be disassembled and replaced. more August 2015 AN IMPRESSIVE MOBILE CRANE JOB ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER RHINE This summer, the specialists from the heavy-duty logistics company and crane operator WASEL used two Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 mobile cranes to complete an impressive job by the river Rhine close to the German town of Dinslaken. The job involved shortening two 138-metre-high electricity pylons and reconstructing the tops of the pylons as part of renovation work. more Juli 2015 TRANSPORTING A 133-TON WINDING ENGINE ACROSS THE LAND OF HESSE Transporting a winding engine used in mining from the town of Haiger in the Lahn-Dill district of Germany across the German Land of Hesse to the town of Neuhof near Fulda was a real challenge. more August 2015 SCAFFOLDING AT COLOGNE CATHEDRAL (EXPRESS.DE) A 60-ton WASEL mobile crane at Cologne Cathedral more August 2015 REPORT ON A WASEL OPERATION AT BILD ONLINE (BILD.DE) The editorial team of the German newspaper Bild is currently reporting on a major operation carried out by WASEL on its Bild Online website (www.bild.de). more Juli 2015 THE NEW MK88 PLUS HAS ARRIVED The new MK88 makes working under overhead lines or higher tower cranes or in close proximity to airports an easy task, with no reduction in load capacity at maximum tower height. more July 2015 SERVICES Mobile Cranes Tower Cranes Heavy Loads Industrial Assembly WASEL Company Expertise Team Player Quality References Career Used Cranes Market Contacts LOCATIONS Locations Contacts SERVICE NEWS JOBS WASEL GmbH Schwerlastlogistik · Turmdrehkrane Walter-Gropius-Straße 1 · 50126 Bergheim, Germany Phone: +49 2271/465-0 · Fax: +49 2271/465-120 mail@wasel-krane.de · www.wasel-krane.de Legal Notice · Privacy This site uses third-party website tracking technologies to provide and continually improve our services, and to display advertisements according to users' interests. 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