Omme Lift completes Saudi order

Danish company Omme Lift has completed an order for seven 1930 RXBD specialist crawler units for use on site maintenance at the new Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The deal was executed by Omme Lift's Saudi Arabia dealership Masa Equipment Company in Riyadh.

The 1930 RXBD is mounted on a tracked chassis and is battery and diesel powered for indoor and outdoor use respectively. It has a basket load capacity of 200kg. The platforms are equipped with an unfolding scissor system, giving the lift an increased up and over outreach over high obstacles. The specially designed steel booms made from high and broad profiles allow greater outreach whilst maintaining a high degree of stability and rigidity.

The new Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University, located on King Khalid International Airport Road in the north of Riyadh, covers 8 million m2. The total built-up area is around 3 million m2. The university will include administration buildings, 13 faculties, a 700-bed student hospital, laboratories, research centres and a residential area that includes accommodation for students and staff. The capacity of the university is around 40000 students. The largest women-only university in the world it is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2012.