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Imperial Crane on the front cover of ACT magazine along with Imperial Power featured in the same issue for the 756kV switchyard project.

By Berkshire - June 17, 2020

Portfolio Request A Quote View As Pdf Crane choreography Imperial Power Services was called in to take care of business at an electrical plant. John Skelly reports. Last November T&D Power contracted Imperial Power Services of Bridgeview, IL to pick a 765kV dead-end structure during a planned power outage. After hearing what Imperial had accomplished…

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Complicated Motor Removal Simplified with Custom Devices

By Berkshire - June 17, 2020

Portfolio Request A Quote View As Pdf Minimizing downtime is crucial to any business, but an outage at a nuclear plant can cost millions. When the Braidwood Generating Station in northeast Illinois serviced its heater drain motors, the complicated removal procedure was time consuming and took the motors out of commission for weeks. After the…

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Imperial Crane Services, Inc. Acquires Speedway Crane

By Berkshire - June 17, 2020

Portfolio Request A Quote View As Pdf Imperial Crane Services, Inc. has acquired Speedway Crane headquartered in Joliet, Illinois. Imperial Crane, headquartered in Bridgeview, IL with additional offices in Indiana and Texas has served the crane rental industry with excellence for over 45 years. Acquiring a well-established crane company like Speedway Crane will help accelerate…

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Operation Rebuild along with Imperial Crane Assist the Giest Family after an EF-4 Tornado

By Berkshire - June 17, 2020

Portfolio Request A Quote View As Pdf After a violent EF-4 tornado ripped through the rural town of Fairdale, IL on April 9, 2015, Rick and Dawn Giest lost their home, barn, and most of their belongings. This deadly tornado traveled 15 to 20 miles on the ground with hail and wind gusts up to…

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Engineering News-Record Magazine, March 12, 2012

By Berkshire - June 17, 2020

Portfolio Request A Quote View As Pdf Optimal Crane Utilization Drives Safety/Efficiency on Refinery Modernization’s BP’s Whiting Refinery Modernization (WRM) project in Whiting, Indiana, is one of the country’s premier modernization projects, located in the second-largest BP refinery. It is also indicative of the oil and gas industry’s growing need to upgrade process equipment to…

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Imperial Crane now Elliott Boom Truck Dealer for Illinois and Indiana

By Berkshire - June 17, 2020

Portfolio Request A Quote View As Pdf Bridgeview, IL – Imperial Crane has become the exclusive dealer for Elliott Equipment BoomTruck truck mounted cranes in Illinois and Indiana. They carry all Elliott BoomTruck products with lifting capacities ranging from 10 to 50 tons and can perform reaches with fixed or hanging man baskets up to 201…

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Under the lights with Imperial Crane

By Berkshire - February 10, 2020

Portfolio Request A Quote View As Pdf Imperial Crane was proud to be a part of Navy Pier’s 100th anniversary by installing the legs of the new Ferris Wheel and was back onsite to install 13 Valmont light poles that ran along the Navy Pier shoreline. The poles were 60 feet tall and weighed 3,000…

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Up Close with Abraham Lincoln and the Common Man

By Berkshire - February 10, 2020

Portfolio Request A Quote View As Pdf Multi-modal, multi-crane projects involve a level of intricacy that requires expert knowledge and skills from the rigger, operator, lift planner, project manager and often, many other players. Imperial Crane Services completed a complex boiler lift using three all-terrain cranes and one rough-terrain crane. The primary crane, a 600-ton…

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Imperial Crane Expanded Their Liebherr Fleet

By Berkshire - February 10, 2020

Portfolio Request A Quote View As Pdf While attending the world’s leading trade fair for construction, building material, mining machines and construction vehicles in Munich, Germany, Imperial Crane Services, Inc. purchased two Liebherr cranes to expand their existing fleet. Imperial purchased a LTM 1300-6.2, a 350 ton capacity mobile crane from Ehingen, Germany and also…

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