Hebetec Engineering AG

Images of 15 Years
 1995 23.6.1995 Foundation and registration in the Commercial Registry

The founders from left to right: D. Schuble,

J. Roth, W. Unterweger, U. Jakob,
H. Hofstetter

September 1995 Commencement of operations

First assignments :

Obernburg , Germany
Itzegem, Belgium

The managment is
challenged in every
department

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 1996
Waste heat boiler BASF Ludwigshafen

Hans Hofstetter in action at the

Gasometer/BASF Works constructions
site, Ludwigshafen Germany

Hebetec receives a big order for the

lifting assembly of two boiler
components / Lippendorf plant,
Germany

Ueli Jakob testing the new strand

machines H-400

New Hebetec employees

Werner Unterweger

Markus Abbhl

Priska Falke (Wagner)

1997
The spectacular transfer of a bridge in
Switzerland
The newly constructed bridge in Arch is
incrementally launched across the Aare
during a weekend operation.

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 Transfer of the TBM in De Sauges / 400 to
A = after pre-assembly 160 m transfer to
starting position
B1 = after heading of ca. 2000 m transfer back
to starting position
B2 = lateral sliding from north to south duct ca.
25 m
B3 = transfer by 160 m to southern startin duct
C = after transfer to southern duct transfer
back to assembly area by 2000 m

Hebetec celebrates the succesful starting

phase and looks forward to the new year
with a positive outlook. In the business year
of 1997, 2 m CHF total revenue was
reached and even more pleasing is the fact
that Hebetec can already present profitable
1996 1997
numbers in the second business year.

1998
'Elbebrcke' in Dresden, Germany
New record for Hebetec !
Weight of bridge 15'700 to
Lateral sliding of the newly
constructed bridge by ca. 25 m
On 8 axels

Everyone present at the bridge transfer of

Lochbach at Burgdorf
In the back Schrch Urs (our lock-
smith)
In the front Fritz Molet (former head of
The Three Musketteers machine shop)
Robi / Thomas / Markus

Roof lifting in Kirchberg

The roof lifted by 1.2 m
Now it is possible to remodel the
attic into a living room

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 1999
Reconstruction of the Frauenkirche in
Dresden
During the first lifting of the hood (operated by a
local company) obvious deficiencies occur.
Hebetec was chosten to carry out the further
lifting. After an intensive re-engineering the
second lifting by ca. 10 m was sucessfully
accomplished in 1999.

Innovative bridge disassembly over N1,

Z18
Lifting of the concrete superstructure
by ca.1.5m
Installation of a steel auxiliary
construction
Decantin of the bridge on the
incremental launching tracks
Incremental launching an reassembly
outside of the clearance gauge of the
highway

Engineering Krsko Slovenia

The planning and engineering work for the
preparation of the switch of 2 steam
generators takes almost a year
The execution in the year 2000 only takes
a couple of weeks

SBB Adlertunnel bei Basel, Switzerland

Lifting and alignment of the duct

Length ca. 150 m
Reason: Problems in subsidence of the
subsoil

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 2000
Execution switch of steam generators in
Krsco
Rolf Habegger at the control panel
The 4 steam generators each weighed
343 t
Following rigging operations were
perfomed: lifting/ tilting/ shifting
First big operation for steel superstructure
120 to MEGASTEEL were used

Purchase of the industrial property

Sagi in Hindelbank.

Open house
to celebrate the relocation from
Burgdorf to Hindelbank. Our new
Chairman of the Board Dr. T. Meyer
and Hagen Lehman were present.

New employees

Wieslaw Sulaz (left picture)

Gerd Kindermann

Cargolifter Brand, Germany

Lifting of 540 ton heavy steel gates
Height of the shipyard 105 m
An initial tension temperature was
necessary to
insure the
stability of the
steel

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 2001
Exhibition 02
Lifting of the
Galet roofs
Markus as
Operator at the
control panel

Reichbachviadukt, Germany

Steel plant in Sidmar, Belgium

Werner Unterwegen working with his

crew
Lifting with strand jack H-70
Extensive steel superstructure

2002
Widibrcke Frutigen, Switzerland
Construction of the new bridge over the
old one
Safety frame MegaSteel
Traffic obstruction minimal

Lateral sliding of the old bridge

Sliding track and safety frame MegaSteel
Lowering of the new bridge by 5 m in only
1 hours

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 2003
Lateral sliding of a railway bridge in
Olten, Switzerland
Weight 4500 t
Lateral sliding onto the definite bridge
barings

Oil platform MOAB I

Pulling platforms to sea with ships
Lowering of the pillars to the ocean floor
Fixation of the pillars
Lifting and fixation of the platform to the
pillars

TBM Uetlibergtunnel

J. Graber shifts the TBM by 2500 m

through the Uetliberg

2004
New employees

Beat Joss Construction engineer and

member of the executive board
Eveline Kaltenrieder Office and
transports

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 Brisbane Hangar Roof Lift
At Brisbane airport, Australian
subsidiary Austress Freyssinet, in
collaboration with Hebetec, lifted a
3000 tonne roof for the largest airport
hanger in Australia.

Engineering APS system

Adolf Franke; APS consultant

Hans Hofstetter; Hebetec Engineering AG
Y. H. Yoo, Hebetec Agent in Korea

Succesful acquisition with conclusion of a contract

Production of the APS plant

In only 5 months the APS plant, consisting of
140 modules and 4 push and pull units was
fabricated in Switzerland and shipped to
South Korea.

Press release : (Ocotober 2004)

Hyundai Heavy Industry (HHI) the world
largest shipbuilder opens up the new
shipbuilding method to build its commercial
ships on the ground instead of in conventional
drydocks. HHI announce that it has
successfully load-out the first of sixteen
22000 to heavy oil tankers.
APS Consulting The first attempt using the APS-System in the
Team (above) world shipbuilding history and paradigm shift
in shipbuild methodbreaking the conventional
and Hebetec Crew notion that ships are built and launched in a
drydock.

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 Pamier, France

Shifting of a forging press

Freyssinet acquires an
interest in Hebetec and
the Machine Park
grows and grows .

2005
The Hebetec Off Shore Team
in action at MOAB II.

The whole vacation home

located near the Neuenburg
lake, Switzerland, is lifted by
1.5 m so a new floor can be
added.

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 2006
Forges-les-Eaux, France

Sliding of a railway bridge with the APS

and MegaSteel System

New employee

Gabi Stauffer book keeping

2007
Isler Schale Biel, Switzerland
Lifting of reinforced concrete roof
construction of 4.5 m
Simple steel auxiliary
construction with
MegaSteel
supports and cross
members
Fritz Seewer at the
control panel

HRSG-Korangi, Karachi
Modular lifting in
Pakistan

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 2008
Drying drum Riega
Lifting and shifting onto MegaSteel
towers
Weight 100 to

Bridge segments in Uljanovsk,

Russia
Weight 4'200 t
Legth 60 m
Lifting height
45 m

Hangaar roof lifting for Lufthansa in

Frankfurt, Germany
Weight 2'900 t
Length 180 m
Lifting height 25 m
MegaSteel towers / height 50 m
Total steel auxiliary construction = 400 t

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 2009

Temporary steel construction

MegaSteel
Assembly strutting for concrete element
carriers
Element levelling and load control with
integrated hydraulic system

Poznan Station, Polen

Lifting of two lattice girders each 1'300 t
Marcin Sermet

Neuer employees

Bernhard Schmied Book keeping

and controlling

Jerzy Sermet and Spasa Spasic on a

construction site in Vienna

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 From 2004 to 2009 Hebetec and
the HHI Team successfully
completed 50 Loud Outs.

Ueli Jakob Markus Abbhl

Project managers und
Fathers of success

Freyssinet is now 100 % engaged

in Hebetec
The cooperation with the group
management in Paris is good and
pleasant.

Jrme Stubler: CEO of Nuvia and

Freyssinet

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 2010
Changes in the office

Ariett Kleemann is leaving us

Christine Schriewer has settled in well

The Hebetec crew has an optimistic outlook. Interesting projects stand before us.

The oil platform North Rankin 2 is being built in the HHI yard and is being loaded
on to a barge with help of the HEBETEC APS systems.

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