40m Spider Boom Lift for Nanningdong High-Speed Railway Station
The self-developed 40m spider boom lift manufactured by Hubei Goman Heavy Industry has been officially delivered to Nanningdong High-Speed Railway Station, specializing in the daily maintenance of roof steel structures and glass curtain walls. As the largest high-speed rail hub in Guangxi and a core gateway facing ASEAN, Nanningdong Station integrates high-speed railways, subways and public transport systems.

Its super-large interior space, complex building structures and high passenger flow impose extremely strict requirements on aerial work equipment. The successful application of the 40m spider lift completely eliminates high-altitude maintenance blind zones in super-high waiting halls. With zero-ground-damage, high-precision operation and superior passability, it has established a new industry benchmark for domestic high-speed railway station maintenance.
Site Challenges: Vertical Maintenance Dilemmas of Super Large Transportation Hubs
As a mega-scale comprehensive transportation complex, Nanningdong High-Speed Railway Station combines modern architectural aesthetics and functional design, bringing unprecedented challenges for daily operation and maintenance:
Ultra-High Working Height & Complex Overhead Facilities
The main station roof adopts a large-span spatial grid steel structure, with the highest point exceeding 30 meters. The ceiling is equipped with huge guide signs, daylighting skylights and fire smoke exhaust systems. Traditional aerial work equipment cannot reach these ultra-high maintenance areas, resulting in long-term hidden safety hazards.
Strict Zero-Damage Requirements for Ground & Underground Structures
The station interior is paved with high-precision anti-slip floor tiles and marble. Directly beneath the floor lies the subway transfer level. Heavy-duty construction equipment may cause irreversible ground settlement, floor cracking and structural damage, posing great risks to underground transportation facilities.
Dense Three-Dimensional Layout Blocks Conventional Construction
The core waiting area is densely arranged with escalators, ticket gates and continuous passenger flow. Large straight boom lifts cannot access the central working area, and their operating radius may easily collide with precision steel grid structures, causing equipment damage and safety accidents.
Ultra-Short Zero-Downtime Maintenance Windows
As a key node of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor, Nanningdong Station maintains huge passenger flow all year round. Only a very short maintenance window is available during late-night off-peak hours, requiring equipment to support rapid deployment, instant operation and quick evacuation without disrupting daily transportation.
Traditional scaffolding occupies pedestrian passages and involves extremely high safety risks when erected at 40m height. Goman’s 40m spider boom lift, equipped with a bionic folding chassis and super-long working boom, serves as the optimal solution for these extreme working conditions.
Core Technical Strengths: 40m Ultra-High Reach & Millimeter-Level Micro Operation
The 40m spider boom lift represents the top technical level of domestic high-height crawler aerial work equipment, delivering comprehensive breakthrough performance for complex railway station scenarios:
40m Flagship Working Height with Sufficient Safety Redundancy
With a maximum working height of 40 meters — equivalent to a 13-story building — the equipment easily covers the highest structural points of Nanningdong Station with abundant safety margin. Even at the maximum outreach state, the platform maintains a stable rated load of 230kg, supporting two operators and heavy-duty tools such as electric suction cups and welding equipment. It thoroughly solves the traditional problem of insufficient load capacity at ultra-high heights.
0.8m Ultra-Narrow Chassis for Barrier-Free Access
Adopting a multi-section folding spider outrigger design, the retracted chassis width is only 0.8 meters. Equipped with high-performance rubber crawlers with ultra-low ground pressure, the machine freely passes through narrow station passages and even escalator entrances of the subway transfer floor. The non-marking crawler design completely avoids floor scratches and ground pressure damage, realizing zero disturbance to indoor and underground structures.
Intelligent Obstacle Avoidance & 360° Full-Range Precise Operation
To adapt to densely distributed internal steel grids, the upper turret supports 360° continuous rotation with wide-angle basket swinging capability. Equipped with a professional micro-motion control system, the platform realizes millimeter-level fine adjustment at height. Operators can accurately avoid complex steel joints and light strips to reach fault points directly. The precise targeting performance reduces pre-operation preparation time by more than 70%.
Practical Operational Value: Safeguarding Safety & Efficiency of National Transportation Hubs
Since its deployment at Nanningdong Station, the 40m spider lift has efficiently completed multiple core maintenance tasks and played a vital role in the Spring Festival travel rush preparation work:
Zero-Safety-Risk High-Altitude Operation
Equipped with an intelligent anti-tilt early warning system, automatic leveling outriggers and dual overload protection devices, the equipment monitors platform posture in real time. It automatically stops operation and triggers alarms once exceeding safety thresholds, building a solid safety barrier for high-altitude work under slight wind conditions.
Significant Efficiency Improvement & Cost Reduction
Traditional curtain wall cleaning requires hundred-ton crane rental and railway operation suspension approval, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly. With Goman’s 40m spider lift, only two workers and one machine are needed to complete all maintenance during nightly off-business hours. The comprehensive working efficiency is increased by over 3 times with zero impact on daily high-speed railway operation.
Silent & Eco-Friendly Operation
Optional full-electric power controls operating noise below 55dB, blending perfectly with the station’s background noise. It completely eliminates fuel exhaust and loud operation interference, providing a comfortable and quiet waiting environment for passengers.
Project Significance & Customer Testimonial
The person in charge of the Engineering Department at Nanningdong High-Speed Railway Station spoke highly of the equipment:
“Goman’s 40m spider lift is the most capable indoor aerial work equipment in terms of passability and working height that we have ever adopted. It perfectly solves our long-term maintenance pain points of visible but inaccessible and unreachable high-altitude faults. Its flexible steering performance on narrow maintenance walkways during steel structure rust removal and inspection is impressive. It not only greatly improves maintenance efficiency, but also fully guarantees the operational safety of the mega transportation hub.”
The successful delivery of this project marks the mature technical strength of Hubei Goman Heavy Industry in ultra-high altitude and ultra-complex space aerial work scenarios. In the future, Goman will continue to break technical barriers in the 50m+ high-altitude field, providing safer and smarter aerial work solutions for more national super projects and empowering the stable and high-quality development of China’s railway transportation infrastructure.
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