Heavy Machinery Giant SANY Plays Key Role in World’s No. 3 Great Mosque Construction

Over 40 SANY concrete and hoisting machines have been taking part in the minaret construction of the Djamaâ El Djazaïr- Great Mosque of Algiers in Algeria, whose height has reached to 206 meters by Aug 16, becoming the tallest point in North Africa.

Over 40 SANY concrete and hoisting machines have been taking part in the minaret construction of the Djamaâ El Djazaïr- Great Mosque of Algiers in Algeria, whose height has reached to 206 meters by Aug 16, becoming the tallest point in North Africa.

The Great Mosque of Algiers is located in Algiers, capital of Algeria, and is comprised of 12 buildings on an area of 400,000 square meters. Upon completion, the minaret will tower 265m (874 ft) into the sky and boast the tallest steel-work minaret in the world.

The minaret has 42 floors on the ground and 2 underground, weighing 8,041 tons. SANY ultra pressure trailer pumps and placing booms are being used on the concrete pouring for the steel structure complex project.

Required to be built one floor within 7 days to ensure that pouring work was completed within project timelines, the minaret saw SANY equipment deliver highly efficient performance and operate long time without a stop.

In addition, a SANY 400t crawler crane was also used to undertake the hoisting work as the mosque’s prayer hall began installing its dome on Aug 16, the most difficult part in the construction of the prayer hall.

The dome can accommodate 36,000 prayers and has a central dome with the apex height of 71.1 meters. With nearly 200 components and a large number of bolted joints, the installation is a big structural challenge.

SANY’s service team made special plans to ensure the hoisting could be completely smoothly. “The SANY 400t crawler crane delivered the efficient performance with high stability and hoisting capability, receiving high recognition from customers,” said Guo Jian, service dept. manager in SANY Algeria branch.

The prayer hall is expected to be capped on Oct, 2016 and the minaret on March, 2017. Upon completion, the Great Mosque of Algiers will become the third largest mosque in the world.

Apart from this, SANY has also been involved in a number of other key infrastructure projects across the continent, such as the Mombasa–Nairobi Railway Project, Kenya’s biggest infrastructure project since its 1963 independence, SANY has supplied the project with a total of 120 units of heavy machinery, valued at over US$15 million; in the Ethiopian Adama II Wind Farm Project, the largest wind farm in Ethiopia and the second in Africa, 102 sets of SANY SE7715 wind turbines were installed in this project, and the installation, the equipment commissioning and the power grid connection were all provided by Sany Heavy Machinery, whose excellent performance brought Sany much praise and a letter of appreciation from the Adama II project department.

SANY has been doing business in Africa for over a decade and has established an extensive network of local dealers and long-term cooperative relations through its overseas subsidiaries in the North, Central and Southern Africa regions. To date, SANY alone has exported over 12,000 units of construction machinery to the continent, exceeding US$1.5 billion in sales and maintaining a mutually beneficial overseas business model that prioritizes international capacity cooperation as put forward by the Chinese government’s Belt and Road national strategy.