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• Bruno Roni-Damond, Potain vice president of engineering, and Emmanuel Kirchner, Potain Top slewing crane product manager, delivered presentations.
• Approximately 800 delegates attended the annual WSH Symposium on Cranes.

• Work Truck Week 2023 will be held March 7–10, 2023, at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
• National Crane is partnering with Peterbilt to exhibit an NBT45-2 boom truck that does not require a single front outrigger. 
• The boom truck highlights the role that Manitowoc’s engineers play in developing customized solutions to meet the industry’s evolving needs.
• The extended torsion box model is one example of the endless configurations that can be developed to ensure a boom truck that is field-ready directly from the factory.

• An Awards Ceremony recognized many of the top-performing dealers from the region
• Presentations also covered that latest product and service offerings from Manitowoc that help customers get more from their cranes.

• The largest rough-terrain crane on two axles will take pride of place at the top of the Indonesian rental company’s RT inventory.
• Adding the optional 17.6 m jib produces a maximum tip height of 80.8 m and will help the company exploit additional opportunities.

• Potain dealer for the Rhône-Alpes region Valente Grue Assistance has assembled two Potain MDT 109 top-slewing tower cranes on France’s largest glacier, the Mer de Glace “Sea of Ice” near Chamonix in the French Alps.
• The respective cranes will be used to help construct a logistics base and a cable car station and, due to the remote location, had to be assembled by helicopter.
• In each instance, it took less than four days to carry out the entire operation, from the delivery of the elements to the commissioning of the cranes.

• A prospective new crane operator for Van Gestel Montage had one condition for joining the company: he had to have an original Grove GMK3050 
• Van Gestel Montage called the team at Manitowoc’s Breda facility in The Netherlands to source and then refurbish a used GMK3050 through its EnCORE™ program. 

• The Potain hydraulic luffing jib cranes are helping to transform District 1’s landscape with the construction of a new Grade A office complex called The Nexus. 
• The project consists of five basement levels and two towers with a total building area of 114,000 m2.

• Spanish rental company Tinlohi deployed its Grove cranes in tandem on a wind farm and then at an industrial plant. Both projects were completed without a hitch. 
• To dismantle the wind turbine, the cranes completed the job in less than a day — including all set-up and tear down. 
• At the industrial plant, the cranes delivered dependable control to move fragile components to a staging area inside a working facility.

• Investing in Potain tower cranes has helped leading Indian construction company S. J. Contracts boost its business. 
• The Company’s current projects include the Amar TechPark and Malpani Agile in Pune where MCR 160 and MC 310 K12 cranes are deployed.

The Top Crane Brasil Award, one of the most prestigious in the industry, has recognized two Brazilian crane rental companies for completing successful jobs last year using Manitowoc cranes.

• The Grove GMK5250XL-1 delivered to Gustav Seeland in Hamburg, northern Germany is the company’s strongest crane with the longest boom.
• The delivery comes around the time of Seeland’s 90th company anniversary.

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