DISCOVERED IN GREECE – TWO 50 TONNE CAPACITY GANTRY CRANES FROM UNRUH & LIEBIG

16.09.2019

When a service team from Techne visited an OSE depot in Piraeus, Greece, they unexpectedly came across a piece of their own company’s history. Two gantry cranes with a load capacity of 50 tonnes manufactured by the company Unruh & Liebig in 1936 were installed on the hall ceiling at the depot. Unruh & Liebig was the founding name of our company in 1880, before it was renamed as Techne in 1954. The cranes still have their original engines and impressive framework construction. Even after more than 80 years they still work reliably and are regularly used for maintenance work on locomotives and Techne railway cranes. The OSE employees, unaware of the connection between Unruh & Liebig and Techne, were delighted with this turn of events and praised the cranes for their high load capacity and excellent reliability.