for it and provided our Wiesel with an engine that meets future emission regulations. At Bauma we proudly presented our new solutions for the wind industry: the rotor blade adapter ‘Blade Lifter’ and the rotor blade transport system ‘Blade Runner’ for current rotor blades of up to 80m in length. The Blade Runner has been designed to even transport future rotor blades of up to and above 100m. Is there any particular product in high demand at the moment? Our product portfolio is vast. We offer transport vehicles from a payload of 32 tonnes to over 17,000 tonnes and serve as diverse industries as construction, airports, oil and gas exploration, shipyards, logistic hubs, metallurgy plants. Even spaceships and huge satellite dishes are transported on our vehicles. TII Group supplies transport solutions in four distinct segments (transport vehicles for on-road applications and Gross Vehicle Weight < 100 tonnes; > 100 tonnes; 100 tonnes / modular transport; industry vehicles and special vehicles; and logistics vehicles via Wiesel swap body transporter). Are there any major projects over the years that you are most proud of? Why? The TII Group holds the current world record – over 17,000 tonnes – for transporting extremely heavy goods by vehicle. What we are also really proud of is the fact that our vehicles are operated in many ‘cool’ applications and
The latest low bed trailer from Scheurle.
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sites: in Peru at elevation 6000m, in Siberia at -40°C, all over Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Australia. In mines, at airports, at shipyards, even in the air and space industry. The hydraulic pendulum axle was first introduced in 1957. Today, SCHEUERLE is a market leader in the Self Propelled Modular Transporter (SPMT). Do you have any comments about the SPMT market? We invented the SPMT. It completely changed the transport sector. SPMT are used for many different applications: plant construction, mining, aerospace industry, shipbuilding industry, wind energy industry, construction of large bridges and tunnels. Due to the project character or the business the market is quite volatile. At the moment sales of SPMT is above our expectations.