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Australian company Active Crane Hire purchased two Potain MCT 325 topless cranes during its launch in August. Both cranes will be delivered at the end of 2019 and will be mainly used for residential and commercial projects within Australia.

McKay United an equipment rental and service company in Australia deployed a Grove GMK7450 and a GMK5250L to repair a derailed gantry crane at Australia’s first automated port — Victoria International Container Terminal in Port Melbourne. The project was the biggest lift McKay United has completed since owning both Grove all-terrain cranes.

For almost two decades Looking Up magazine has acted as a means to keep you informed of the latest news from Manitowoc Potain Grove and National Crane. We’ve shared stories about new cranes new technologies our expert dealer network valued customers global lifting trends shifting socio-economics and of course the world’s most fantastic job sites. Now the time for taking the magazine online is upon us. It is with great pleasure and excitement that we introduce Manitowoc’s new Looking Up website: www.manitowoc-lookingup.com

Long-standing Manitowoc Cranes dealers Sitsa and Tracsa are now the exclusive distributors for Grove and National Crane products in Mexico. Both companies form the Tracsa Group which will sell the complete range of Grove and National Crane products and offer parts aftersales services and support to customers in the Mexican market.

Irving Equipment (Irving) added two new Manitowoc cranes to its fleet: a GMK5250L and a TMS9000-2. With the two cranes the Saint John New Brunswick Canada-based construction company is able to perform two-hook operations which boosts its competitive edge.

Manitowoc will showcase two best-in class cranes from Potain and Grove at booth #OD69 during Excon 2019 South Asia’s largest construction equipment and technology trade fair which takes place December 10 – 14. Manitowoc will be sharing the booth with TIL its dealer in India for Grove mobile and Manitowoc crawler cranes.

Manitowoc Cranes has appointed Axyom a French construction equipment sales company as a new distributor of Potain self-erecting cranes in northern France. Based in Normandy Axyom will expand its offering to customers by incorporating the Potain Igo Igo T and Hup self-erecting crane ranges.

Malaysian equipment rental company Megah-Sewa is adding three Potain MCT 385 cranes to its fleet for the first time. Megah Sewa is the plant and equipment subsidiary of Gamuda the largest infrastructure development company in Malaysia and for its most recent investments it added three Potain topless tower cranes. The company selected these units in particular to improve project completion times and to work within its parent company’s new Gamuda Intelligent Building System division which handles prefabricated construction.

A Potain Igo 50 self-erecting crane is repairing more than 4 000 square meters of damaged roof on the Sant’Orsola a 14th Century ex-monastery in Florence Italy that is thought to be the final resting place of Lisa Gherardini better known as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

Two Potain self-erecting cranes are in the final stages of completing a residential development in Neuvecelle France a commune on the bank of Lake Geneva.

In August 2018 Obaid Kneish and Sons General Transport Establishment (Obaid Kneish and Sons) purchased its first Grove GRT8100 to work in the oil fields of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company was immediately impressed with the crane’s competitive load capacity build quality and smooth operations and has since added two more to its fleet.

Singapore construction company Dragages Singapore is using a Potain MCR 295 luffing jib tower crane to construct CapitaSpring one of the tallest buildings in the city state’s Raffles Place district. At 280 m high the S$1.82 billion development will feature 51 stories of Grade A office space ancillary retail space and a serviced residence.