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time and money and contributed to a safe journey for there are large “objects” to move and lift, there is WE DELIVER THE PERFORMANCE YOU NEED.
the vessel. Mammoet. Since twenty years the company // FROM STOCK // FROM PRODUCTION
But, before installing the new, the old had to be contributed in more than 20 new-construction or
removed. The original vessel, weighing 410 tons, was radical restructuring of stadiums jobs, including iconic Austenitic stainless steel _ Duplex _ Superduplex _ Superaustenitics _ Nickel alloys _ Titanium
located in a 70 m high building. For its exchange, the locations like Wembley, the Philips Stadion in
client had at first planned to dismantle the entire side of Eindhoven, the olimpic ones of Moscow, Athens and
the building. The Mammoet solution was different: Bejing, and so on.
using a LR 11350 crane – with a boom length of 126 Mammoet Italy has worked and works in this area.
m and maximum lifting capacity of up to 1,350 metric They transported, lifted and installed the roof of the
tons. The crane would be able to perform the exchange Allianz Arena in Turin, and now they are working on
without the need to dismantle and reconstruct part of the new Yaoundè Stadium in Cameroon. Mammoet
the building. This reduced expensive downtime and is supplying the cranes for the building of the Paul
reconstruction costs. Biya Stadium in Olembé, a suburbian district 13 km
Mammoet’s comprehensive approach provided for a from the city center. The new stadium will be able
safe and efficient exchange of the reactor vessel, to host 60.000 seated watchers, all under a cover
helping the customer to restart fertilizer production roof.
earlier than originally planned. Beside the main soccer payground, the sport complex
will offer two workout fields with 3000 seats each,
playgrounds for handball, basketball, volley and tennis,
The twist for stadiums an olympic-size swimming pool, an hotel, a shopping

Alberto Galbiati, CEO of Mammoet Italy - Paul Biya Stadium a Yaoundè Cameroon

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Naturally, the very same technologies and extertise in center, five restaurants, a 6000 m VIP hospitality area,
extreme transportation and lifting that Mammoet a movie theatre, a congress center and a hall-of-fame.
masters in industrial plant buildign, are applied by the Mammoet Italy is providing four cranes, including a
company in other type of large engineering projects. tracked one with a 600-ton lifting capacity, that is used
Stadiums are a very good example. Since the end of to lift and install the stell structures of the building,
the ‘90s, building of collective sports stadiums around starting from the western tribune and then going to the
the world has changed profoundly. Modular costruction lifting and positioning of the roof covering the stadium
methods have supplanted traditional ones, and where stands.

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It provides pipes, tubes, butt weld fittings and flanges in austenitic stainless
steel, duplex, super duplex, 6Mo, nickel alloys and titanium from stocks
at distribution points in Italy, Brazil, Dubai, Singapore and the United Kingdom,
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