Solintal arm and rocker arm for the maritime works company boskalis

The Dutch company Royal Boskalis Westminster NV is known around the world for its dredging and heavy-lift work in the maritime infrastructure sector at an international level. The company has one of the largest dredging fleets in the world and one if its most important suppliers is the Madrid-based company Solintal, which makes all kinds of structures for the enormous naval fleet, comprising over 900 ships around the world.

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The latest delivery Solintal made to Boskalis was for a large arm and rocker arm to be mounted onto a digger installed on a pontoon. Specifically, it is a 55-ton arm that is 16.4 metres long, 3.06 metres wide, and 3.9 metres tall. The rocker arm weighs 40 tons and is 14.7 metres long, 2.3 metres wide and 3.2 metres tall. Both parts have a specific design for the work they will be doing, featuring a robust and reinforced construction, and several hydraulic connections for use alongside different tools.

Solintal is known throughout the world for the buckets it makes and designs, as well as its repair kits, water bowsers for mine irrigation, with capacities ranging from 20,000 to 180,000 litres, dump truck hoppers for all kinds of trucks and hauling material, as well as arms and rockers for large diggers.