Novità

Mark Hooper has joined Manitowoc as Vice President Sales – North America Distribution Management Hydraulic and Crawler Cranes. Hooper is responsible for sales leadership and product management for Grove rough-terrain truck-mounted telecrawler all-terrain and carrydeck product lines in North America. Hooper has more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience in the construction industry with much of that time spent at Case New Holland. He will report directly to David Hull Vice President – Americas Sales.

Manitowoc has opened a new Crane Care training center in the city of Santana de Parnaíba which is located in the metropolitan area of São Paulo a major South American transportation hub. The move will provide easier access to Manitowoc’s training programs for technicians across Latin America.

Manitowoc Cranes has announced a new smartphone app that will help customers to diagnose technical issues on their cranes much faster. The free app will be available on iOS and Android devices and will enable users to understand the numeric diagnostic codes that are generated by their on-board control systems. Manitowoc is the first manufacturer in the crane industry to release an app of this kind.

Maxim Crane Works (Maxim) has added 48 new Potain top-slewing tower cranes to its already expansive Potain fleet. The Newport Kentucky-based company will start taking deliveries of the new tower cranes beginning in May of 2018.

German crane specialist BKL Baukran Logistik has used a Grove GMK6400 to lift parts of a 24 t (26.5 USt) derrick crane atop a 94 m (308 ft)-high bank in Eschborn northwest Frankfurt. The derrick crane is needed to conduct roof refurbishment in the area.

Manitowoc’s Icelandic dealer Kraftvélar has showcased its broad range of crane solutions at Verk og vit 2018 (Construct North) a construction tradeshow that took place between March 8-11 2018 in the country’s capital of Reykjavik.

Manitowoc ha annunciato il lancio del modello successivo di una gru multistrada molto popolare la Grove GMK6300L che presentata nel 2010 ha riscosso da subito un invidiabile successo in tutto il mondo. Il nuovo modello di portata pari a 300 t è la GMK6300L-1 destinata a perpetuare la tradizione del modello precedente raggiungendo nuovi livelli di prestazioni nella categoria a sei assi.

Nigeria Liquid Natural Gas (NLNG) has purchased two Grove GMK5130-2 all-terrain cranes. The company runs one of the world’s largest gas liquefaction plants from its facility on Bonny Island Nigeria. The two 130 t capacity cranes will be used for plant maintenance and construction work.

PT Saranabaja Perkasa has received three new Grove all-terrain cranes. Two are GMK4100L units while the third is a GMK5220. All were purchased from local dealer PT SH Machinery Indonesia. Hidayat president-director of PT Saranabaja Perkasa said there were several design features that attracted his company to the Grove brand.

Crane rental company Skylift Crane Services is the latest Australian business to invest in the increasingly popular GMK4100L-1 from Grove’s long-boom series of all-terrain cranes. At just 2.55 m wide and 13.42 m long the crane is easier to maneuver than five-axle alternatives yet its 100 t capacity and 60 m Megaform boom mean it has the strength and reach to take on lifts more commonly associated with larger cranes.

Manitowoc had a successful appearance at the 14th National Congress of Infrastructure Colombia’s largest infrastructure congress held at the end of last year in Cartagena. The company brought to the event a team of experts in sales and aftermarket sales to present new products technologies and services for the Latin American market.

BYGG has taken delivery of a Potain Hup 32-27 the first one delivered to its home country of Iceland. The company has already placed the newest-generation self-erecting crane on a job site in Reykjavik where it is helping to build a residential development.