Sarens Lifting Tanks at Prayon’s Plant in Puurs-Sint-Amands, Belgium

Prayon is an international company specialized in phosphorus chemistry. The production plant located in Puurs-Sint-Amands is its second largest production site, which produces phosphoric acid as well as fluoride and phosphate salts that are used in a wide range of technical, food and agricultural applications. Puurs-Sint-Amands also hosts one of the 3 R&D centers of the Group.

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Sarens, world leader in heavy lifting, engineered transport and crane rental, has worked with its client Ivens on the extension and improvement of the Prayons plant in Puurs, where a 25t T070 tank and a 21.8t MARP tank were installed.

Prior to this installation, the Sarens technical team unloaded the two tanks from the barge on which were transported to the quay using an LTM1200 crane unit with a 72t counterweight, to be placed on an 8-axle SPMT for transport to their final location.

On site at Prayon, the Sarens team worked on lifting the two tanks for installation. An operation that required the skill of the crane operators, as a 700t crane with boom lift could not be used to place the MARP tank at 65.5m radius because of a limited operating space. It was therefore decided to use a 650t LTM1650 crane with 63m of fly jib combined with a smaller 450t LTM1450 crane to place the tank once it had been lifted. These two new tanks added to the installation will reinforce the plant’s production reliability.

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