BMS - The world's largest electric crane

BMS Heavy Cranes' new green crane - which can lift the equivalent of 500 elephants at once - has arrived at the National Test Center in Thy in recent months. Now the world's largest electric crane is almost complete, which BMS Heavy Cranes will celebrate with customers and Danish employees' families on Friday and Saturday. After which two years of lifting work on some of the world's largest test wind turbines will begin. Later, the future is expected to include installation of offshore wind turbines from the quayside and tasks for international power plants.

BMS Heavy Cranes is now ready to put its new green crane acquisition into operation. The crane was manufactured in the Czech Republic by the manufacturer Huisman and has just been transported to Østerild. The first tests in the harsh North Sea wind in Østerild Plantation east of Thisted will begin immediately.

At the test center, where future wind turbine technology is tested, the first two years of work for BMS Heavy Crane's new 3000 mt. ring crane from November 2023 will be lifting some of the world's largest wind turbine prototypes.

The crane's dimensions are impressive and it now sits at the top of BMS Heavy Crane's fleet of around 500 cranes of varying sizes and types, suitable for a wide range of tasks. With a total height of 245 meters, the new ring crane is only 9 meters lower than the pylons on the Great Belt Bridge. At the same time, it can lift up to 3000 tons (equivalent to the weight of 500 elephants!), of which 1000 tons can be lifted to a working height of 225 meters. Of course, this also requires its engines. The new crane's 16 highly efficient electric motors can pull with the equivalent of 3000 horsepower. The crane is connected directly to the electricity grid, to which the wind turbines at Østerild also supply power.

BMS Heavy Cranes will mark the commissioning in Østerild over two days. On Friday, September 29, they will host customers and business partners from Denmark and abroad. On Saturday, BMS Heavy Cranes' own Danish employees and their families are welcome to come and experience the ring crane at closed events.

BMS Heavy Cranes is looking forward to seeing its new acquisition, which represents the company's largest single investment ever, in operation:

“In the short term, we expect this type of crane to cement BMS Heavy Crane's already solid position as a flexible partner for the international wind turbine industry. The first few years installing wind turbines in Thy. Then probably placed on a quayside in an international port, where the increasing number and size of offshore wind turbines will be mounted on floating foundations and shipped out. In the longer term, we can also imagine that the type of crane will make BMS Heavy Cranes attractive as a partner for power plants around the world when the very largest boilers need to be lifted into place,” says BMS Executive Vice President Jens Enggaard.

BMS Heavy Cranes' CEO, Morten Kammer, adds: “One of the major advantages of the newly purchased ring crane is that, due to its design, it can be installed at many different ports without the need to invest in additional port infrastructure. In addition, the crane works quickly compared to existing cranes, which makes it possible to install more wind turbines in less time.”

The expanding BMS Group, of which BMS Heavy Cranes is one of two business areas, has in recent years - and thus before the latest crane investment - developed into the world's 5th largest and Europe's 3rd largest crane company in terms of total lifting capacity**.

*More about BMS' acquisition of the world's largest electric crane: https://www.huismanequipment.com/en/media_centre/press_releases/163-177_Huisman-and-BMS-Heavy-Cranes-kick-off-production-of-3-000mt-Ringer-Crane