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Scanclimber hoist used at an underground tunnel at CERN

At CERN, Switzerland is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It consists of a 27-kilometer ring of superconducting magnets. CERN is currently extending the particle accelerator. This project includes underground excavation works. Point 1, at LHC (Large Hadron Collider), is the underground tunnel access shaft. The access shaft

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Cologne Cathedral – an eternal restoration project

The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Cologne is one of the most visited landmarks in Germany with an average of 20,000 visitors a day. This six-hundred-year-old cathedral was built over a period of 300 years. Restoration work on it continues to this day; an everlasting project with an annual restoration budget of 10 million euros.

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Wrapping of L’Arc de Triomphe

For the “L’Arc de Triomphe Wrapped” project, the Christo team and Les Charpentiers de Paris chose Tractel by Scanclimber to design and supply a number of access platforms. These were specially adapted for the installation of the structures that support the covering fabric under the vault of the Arc de Triomphe.

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Finnish nuclear waste, terminal placement in 500-meter- deep bedrock at Onkalo

The Onkalo nuclear waste disposal facility under construction in Olkiluoto, Finland, will be the world’s first permanent geological repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Posiva is using a Scanclimber hybrid hoist-work platform SC2000 in assembly work inside the personnel shaft in Onkalo. The product was custom-built according to Posiva’s requirements. The SC2000 hoist-work platform is a hybrid of a hoist and a mast climber (MCWP).

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Zech installing windows at Heidelberg Europaplaz

Around Heidelberg Europlatz main building, Zech had twelve Scanclimber SC8000 mast climbers with glide rails helping in a demanding window and facade element installation. The Zech installers fixed the elements from the mast climbers and used the glide rails to position the heavy window elements accurately.

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