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Modulift Supports Major Installation Milestone at Hinkley Point C

Specialist lifting equipment manufacturer, Modulift, has played a key role in advancing civil engineering works at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, with its lifting systems aiding in the…

Energy

Hinkley Point C Welcomes Arrival of First Steam Generator

Hinkley Point C, the ambitious nuclear power project, reached a significant milestone as the first of its eight 520-tonne steam generators safely arrived at the construction site over the weekend.…

Transport

Osprey: Achieving Milestones for UK Energy Security

Osprey, a Tier 1 supplier to Hinkley Point C (HPC), successfully coordinated the safe transportation of EDF’s new Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) to the HPC site in Somerset in February…

Energy

Final Offshore Phase Begins at Hinkley Point C

Off the coast of Hinkley Point C in Somerset, two enormous jack-up vessels have arrived as offshore work reaches its final phases. The vessels, named “Neptune” and “Sea Challenger,” will…

Energy

New Nuclear Reactor Arrives in Somerset After 30 Years for British Power Station

The “reactor pressure vessel” is only 13 metres long and weighs 500 tonnes, yet it has the capability to produce the necessary heat to generate steam for the world’s largest…

Cranes

Big Carl’s latest lift at Hinkley Point C

Hinkley Point C’s first reactor building is 17-metres taller, thanks to the world’s biggest crane, Big Carl. Overnight, a 347-tonne liner steel ring was lifted onto the Unit 1 reactor…

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Cranes

Osprey delivers world’s most powerful steam turbine

Osprey Group has recently transported a new low pressure rotor, weighing 257-tonnes, for the world’s most powerful steam turbine at Hinkley Point C, in Somerset. The new low-pressure rotor forms…

Access platforms

Haulotte machines for Hinkley Point C

Bylor JV, a partnership of Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke, ordered more than 80 Haulotte machines to take part in the construction of the buildings that will house the…

Accessories

A delicate and unprecedented challenge for AMCS technologies at the Hinkley Point C site

The anti-collision and zoning solutions provider AMCS technologies was chosen to ensure the safety of tower cranes at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in UK. 20 of the…

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