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SANY's pumps joining in the construction of a bridge in canyon

SANY's pumps joining in the construction of a bridge in canyon

Write: Marsh [2011-05-20]

At the renowned Huangguoshu Falls in Gui Zhou, it is going to build a steel pipe V-truss-stiffened beam of suspension bridge with a main span of 1088 m. It is the first time in world's bridge history that building such a big span bridge in canyon area.
The name of this bridge is Balinghe Bridge. The concrete casting volume of the weight anchor block at the eastern bank amounts to 81662 sq meters. Since 2004, there have been totally 3 pumps of SANY working for this project. The service engineer of SANY, Wei Diyun indicates that the bridge bestride between two hills, which made the concrete conveying difficult. At present, SANY's concrete pumps have already the concrete conveying job for 180m high main pier. During recent three years, since 2004, SANY's equipments worked around the clock without few malfunctions under the careful maintenance of SANY's service engineers.
Balinghe Bridge is 2257m long. It is the longest bridge of China and the 7th longest bridge of the world in mountain area.