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Tight squeeze as Lovemore Bros installs steel press at Smiths Manufacturing (January 2012)
A 400 ton steel press to be used for the in-house manufacturing process of components for heat exchangers was installed by Lovemore Bros’ Heavy Rigging Department at Smiths Manufacturing in Pinetown recently.
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Lovemore Bros erects aesthetic tower on bridge spanning N3 (January 2012)
The weekend of January 15th, 2012 saw the erection of a 33 ton, 34 metre long tower tilted at an angle of precisely 14º giving the new Tshelinyama pedestrian bridge across the N3 freeway near the Marianhill Toll Plaza.
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Lovemore Bros builds ‘green temple’ for COP 17 delegates to chill (December 2011)
Lovemore Bros was commissioned to constructa “Green Temple” for the COP 17 conference to create a space where people could relax, unwind and be entertained.
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Lovemore Bros builds reputation as rigging specialist at shopping malls (December 2011)
Over the years Lovemore Bros has built areputation for providing a high level of expertise in the shopping mall sector especiallywhere out-of-the ordinary engineering challenges have presentedthemselves.
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Half a rugby field long and weighing 100 tons? – no problem, Lovemore Bros will move it (October 2011)
One of the most unusual tasks ever undertaken by Lovemore Bros was moving 21 pontoons to the quayside of Durban Harbour to be loaded onto vessels and shipped to the Moma Titanium Oxide Mine located on the coast of Northern Mozambique.
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Challenging project to move bridge spans from point of manufacture to Ellis Brown Viaduct (October 2011)
Lovemore Bros extendable trailers which were imported from Germany at the beginning of this year, had their work cut out for them recently when the first of 15 arched spans were lowered onto piers to widen the Ellis Brown Viaduct crossing the Umgeni River in Durban. Click for full story
Transporting, rigging and installing a power generation plant in Swaziland is all in a day’s work (October 2011)
Lovemore Bros was recently awarded a contract from project management company SiVEST for the transportation and installation of a condenser, turbine and generator to provide the power requirements for the Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation (RSSC) mill at Simunye, in the country’s north-eastern lowveld.
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Lovemore Bros’ Mechanical Division rebuilds diffuser head in Zimbabwe (October 2011)
The diversity of Lovemore Bros’ Mechanical and Projects Division was called upon to strip out and rebuild the drive head of a diffuser at Hippo Valley Sugar Estate Mill in Zimbabwe. The main columns and support structure had rusted and were in danger of collapsing from both its own weight and the forces imposed when in operation.
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Lovemore Bros’ Mechanical Division refurbishes spray ponds at a Zimbabwe sugar estate (October 2011)
Lovemore Bros Mechanical division was invited by SiVest, an Umhlanga Rocks based project management company, to be involved in the rehabilitation of spray ponds and flash tanks during the, rehabilitation program run at Hippo Valley Sugar Estates, Zimbabwe.
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Delicate rigging operation at Ola Ice Cream Factory (September 2011)
Just in time to beat summer’s heat, machine mover and rigging specialist Lovemore Bros replaced a number of giant stainless steel mix tanks in an operation that required superb rigging skills at the Ola Ice Cream factory in Queensburgh, Durban
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Entire bottling plant moved from Westmead to Bloemfontein (September 2011)
The entire bottling plant of Continental Beverages – whose lease was due for expiry at the end of the year at its Westmead, Pinetown premises – was put onto 15 low bed trailers and transported to the company’s self-owned premises in Bloemfontein.
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Stainless steel tanks uplifted and moved to Plascon Paints (September 2011)
Lovemore Bros’ Heavy Rigging Division recently delivered a consignment of 21 stainless steel tanks to a tank farm which is being commissioned at Plascon, the paint specialist company, at its premises on South Coast Road, Durban.
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Lovemore Bros discharge multimillion rand yachts from pirated cargo ship (August 2011)
One could hear a pin drop as the hustle and bustle of Southern African Shipyards’ private repair jetty came to a momentarily halt recently as experts discharged a series of multimillion rand luxury motorized and sail powered yachts.
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Lovemore Bros installs precast water treatment blocks for ablution project at informal settlement on KZN North Coast (August 2011)
A pilot project initiated by the eThekwini Municipality which involves bringing hygienic ablution facilities and a new wastewater treatment system DEWATS into an underprivileged community on the KZN North Coast is nearing completion. Click for full story
One thousand tons of machinery shifted in emergency operation following harbour crane fire (July 2011)
Richards Bay harbour authorities were faced with a lot more than simply replacing a crane that was rendered inoperable because of an electrical fire whilst offloading alumina from a vessel onto a quayside conveyor belt.
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Locomotive No 398 completes last leg of African journey…by road (June 2011)
It won’t be long now before Locomotive No 398 will be merrily puffing her way along the railway tracks in New Zealand giving tourists an experience of what southern African steam travel was all about in the last century. But transporting her there is another story…
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Lovemore Bros meets demand for extra long cargoes (May 2011)
Lovemore Bros has imported two extendable trailers – which can be stretched to a staggering 35 metres – fulfilling a demand to transport extraordinary long cargoes such as wind turbine blades, precast concrete beams, tanks and pipes weighing up to 60 tons.
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