News Release
Manitowoc 999 keeps Acuity expansion on track
6/29/2016
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Manitowoc 999 is at the center of a multimillion dollar expansion of the ACUITY
insurance company headquarters in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The 999 is lifting
various materials that include precast concrete beams, columns and lintels.
Additionally, the crane is lifting concrete buckets and steel beams. The
heaviest loads weigh 11.75 USt and the highest lifts have risen to 80 ft. For
this project, the crane was set up with 120 ft of main boom and a 150 ft
luffing jib for a max tip height of 273 ft and a max lifting radius of 210 ft.
Dawes, a division of the ALL Family of Companies, chose the crane for its 275
USt capacity and extra-long reach. Dawes credited the crane’s 29,500 lb line
pull and 440 ft pm line speed with enabling the project to stay on schedule.
The headquarters expansion is not the first job that Dawes has overseen for
ACUITY - in 2014, the Milwaukee-based crane rental company employed a Manitowoc
16000 to erect a 400 ft-tall flagpole, the tallest in the U.S.
The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (“Manitowoc”) was founded in 1902 and has over a 117-year tradition of providing high-quality products and support services that are tailored to customers’ needs. Its 2019 net sales were approximately $1.83 billion. Manitowoc is one of the world's leading providers of engineered lifting solutions. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Manitowoc designs, manufactures, markets and supports comprehensive product lines of mobile telescopic cranes, tower cranes, lattice-boom crawler cranes, boom trucks and industrial cranes under the Grove, Potain, Manitowoc, National Crane, Shuttlelift and Manitowoc Crane Care brand names.