

ESTA Awards 2024 – WINNERS
Last night the 2924 ESTA Awards ceremony was held in Paris during the Intermat exhibition.
ESTA Director Ton Klijn said: “Everyone at ESTA is delighted and honoured that our awards receive such excellent support. Of course we congratulate the winners, but we would also like to thank all of the finalists and all those who entered.
“It is your commitment and effort that enables us to show the world, including our clients and political leaders, the important and professional work that our industry delivers day in, day out.”
The winners of each of the 10 categories with a total 37 finalists from 12 different countries are listed below:
- Category – Combined Techniques
WINNER
Allelys
Allelys completed a unique beach landing operation and subsequent challenging road transport of a 155t transformer from Black Rock Sands in North Wales to a substation at Trawsfynydd.
- Category – Transport up to 120t GCW
WINNER
Heavy Load Service (HLS)
The transport of 2 gigantic tanks with a diameter of 5.5m from Hengelo in the Netherlands to the French village of Golbey, involved 140 kilometers of road transport through rural France and the approval of five different electricity companies.
- Category – Telescopic Cranes over 120t capacity
WINNER
Ainscough Crane Hire
For the exchange of a kiln installation during the largest shutdown in the history of the Rugby Cement plant in the UK, Ainscough Crane Hire carried out several complex lifting operations down to the centimeter and completed over a 6-day period working 24 hours.
- Category – Safety
WINNER
Liebherr-Werk Nenzing
The engineers at Liebherr-Werk Nenzing have developed an individual mode for crawler crane operation on a floating unit (pontoon, barge) with different load curves, which results in significantly safer lifting operations.
- Category – Innovation
WINNER
BKV
BKV has developed the TensionMaster, a tool that is designed to eliminate the risks of hoist rope damage, shock loading of the crane and potential damage to the lifted object.
- Category – Telescopic Cranes under 120t capacity
WINNER
M.J. van Riel
Sixteen cranes were used by Van Riel’s team to move a 352m section of heat pipeline during a drilling operation under the busy Erasmusplein in The Hague, a solution that allowed trees and bushes along the route to be spared.
- Category – Transport over 120t
WINNER
Kahl & Jansen
On its way from Ibbenbüren to Niederaussem in Germany, a 350t generator crossed several bridges with a maximum permitted axle load of 14t. The transport specialists at Kahl & Jansen used a transport combination of 2 x 26 axle lines and a girder bridge, resulting in a gross combination weight of 798t.
- Category – Cranes lattice boom
WINNER
Ainscough Crane Hire
For the upgrade of Liverpool’s Anfield football stadium in the UK, Ainscough removed an existing stand structure using an ingenious tandem lift operation by two crawler cranes.
- Category – SPMT
WINNER
Wagenborg Nedlift
Wagenborg Nedlift transported two large storage tanks from the inland quayside in Urmond in the Netherlands to the Chemelot Geleen industrial estate. going through the village and crossing the Netherlands’ busiest motorway, the A2.
- Category – Training
WINNER
Prangl Gesellschaft
Prangl has set up an internal training and development campus called “BePrangl”.Every year, it compiles an updated training manual with all available courses. In 2023, a total of 58 training courses took place at BePrangl with 421 participants.
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The 2024 ESTA Award Winners photograph copurtesy of ESTA
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