History of BauTrans
Milesones in our company´s history
A look back at some of our projects
Crane deployment for a gondola lift
In the Swiss ski area of Laax, Felbermayr subsidiary Bau-Trans is helping to install three stations of a new eight-seater gondola lift in the summer of 2025. A mobile crane and a variety of working…
100-ton mobile crane in power plant tunnel
When installing a throttle valve for the new Grimsel dam in Guttannen, Switzerland, the team from the Felbermayr subsidiary Bau-Trans once again showed that challenges are their specialty. Twelve…
Top Employer 2024 – Double Victory for Felbermayr
After the Upper Austrian family business Felbermayr secured the first place in the construction and transportation sectors in 2021, the company has once again risen to the top with both business…
Truck-mounted crane used for connecting bridge
At the end of January, Felbermayr subsidiary Bau-Trans in Liechtenstein was responsible for carrying out the lifting work on a connecting bridge between the old and new buildings of a grammar school…
Felbermayr work platforms for Bulgaria
Following successful preparation and labelling at the Felbermayr headquarters in Wels, around 80 brand-new Felbermayr-work platforms are setting off on their journey to Bulgaria. The first of these,…
Felbermayr Transport and Lifting Technology integrates Bau-Trans
Effective 1 January, 2022, the affiliate company of Felbermayr Transport and Lifting Technology, Bau-Trans GmbH, will be formally integrated with Felbermayr Transport- und Hebetechnik GmbH & Co KG.…
Major transport project successfully launched
At the end of July, Felbermayr Switzerland successfully completed their first partial order of a large transport project. A total of four transformers will be replaced in the Grimsel region in…
Heavy transport for energy storage
In mid-April, Bau-Trans transported two heat storage tanks from an industrial container manufacturer in Bavaria to a power station in Zurich. The task required the simultaneous use of two support…
Felbermayr awarded as “Top Employer”
In the employer ranking of an assessment carried out in cooperation with the business magazine Trend, Statista, Kununu and Xing, the family-owned company Felbermayr was the industry winner. And that…
Getting bigger – the new company headquarters
In September 2019, Felbermayr began with the construction of its new company headquarters in Wels-Oberthan. All general contractor duties were carried out by the company itself, including the…
Showdown of heavy lift logistics for the petrochemical industry
Felbermayr and its subsidiary companies Bau-Trans and Haeger & Schmidt recently put the combined force of heavy lift logistics into effect for Hungary's largest corporate group. This involved the…
Bridge brought in with SPMT
In mid-November, a 750-tonne bridge was fast tracked into place, so to speak. However, the heavy-duty equipment used was not a crane, but two SPMTs, referred to as “Self-Propelled Modular Trailers”.…
Pneumatic crane in action for lightning conductor installation
At the end of October, a work platform was lifted with a pneumatic crane for the installation of a lightning conductor in Vaduz/Liechtenstein. The operation was carried out by Felbermayr subsidiary…
Dual heavy transport by water and road
For a German mineral oil company, the Felbermayr subsidiary Bau-Trans transported a waste heat boiler weighing almost 100 tonnes from Nüziders in Vorarlberg towards Germany in mid-September. In…
Heavy transport for environmentally friendly energy
A total of 16 pressurised heat accumulators, each weighing 90 tonnes, were transported from Rain am Lech to Cottbus for the conversion of a combined heat and power plant from lignite to gas operation.…
Unrestricted range of services despite pandemic
The spread of the pandemic “coronavirus COVID-19” has the world on tenterhooks. Consequently, individual countries have established their own set of rules that are making work processes either…
Horst Felbermayr – pioneer of heavy goods logistics deceased
After a serious illness, the heavy goods logistics and building industry lost a great entrepreneur in Horst Felbermayr on 13th March 2020. The company boss from Wels (Austria) shaped the business for…
Bridge lifted into place with truck-mounted crane
As the final project of 2019, Felbermayr subsidiary Bau-Trans were in action last week with a mobile crane in Switzerland. A new bridge made of Swiss timber was set in place in order be able to cross…
