With the precise installation of the butene-1 distillation tower of the Sino-Saudi Gulei Ethylene Project, the world's first 4,000-ton crawler crane, the XCMG XGC88000 No. 1 unit, has successfully completed the lifting task.

During the 120 days of hard work on the Gulei Peninsula in Fujian Province, this XCMG 4,000-ton crawler crane has successfully completed the lifting of 7 over-limit towers with a total weight of 9,200 tons, and set a new domestic record of completing the lifting of five ethylene towers in 32 days, becoming a key equipment force in the Sino-Saudi Arabia energy cooperation model project.

This XCMG XGC88000, which has successfully completed the task, is dismantling non-stop. This "giant" weighing 6,500 tons and with a maximum lifting height of 216 meters, is completely dismantled, and the components can cover two football fields. All components require 180 large flatbed trucks to be transported.

"This is the crawler crane with the largest single lifting capacity in the world. The total lifting volume of this project is equivalent to sending 65 Boeing 747s to the clouds at the same time." said Manager Chen, the project leader.

The wind speed at the construction site is variable, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and the tower is large and complex in structure, which poses a great challenge to the lifting accuracy and equipment stability. From the quenching water tower to the 100-meter-high propylene tower, XCMG XGC88000 breaks through the bottleneck of the industry, and each completed lifting is precisely controlled within the millimeter error range.

Previously, this crane had also successfully completed the lifting tasks of over-limit towers of more than 1,000 tons, such as the first phase of the Gulei Refining and Chemical Integration Project, the largest petrochemical industry cooperation project across the Taiwan Straits.

Since it was put into use in 2013, this XCMG XGC88000 has participated in the construction of more than 20 major projects around the world, with footprints all over the country, and has traveled to Saudi Arabia, Oman and other countries along the "Belt and Road", with a total lifting volume of about 200,000 tons.