APPLICATION REPORT | AUTOMOTIVE
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic the industry is continuing to make
investments, building new plants, upgrading existing cranes, seeing a rise in electric car sales and foreign companies expanding in Russia
saw a disruption in spare parts exports; its Hubei province, the pandemic’s epicentre, is one of the country’s key automotive production centres. There were also large scale manufacturing interruptions across Europe, and the closure of assembly plants in the United States. But not all is doom and gloom says Dan Beilfuss, director of sales Americas, Crane Solutions Group, Columbus McKinnon, which supplies Workstation and Jib Cranes, Ergonomic Lift Assists, Air Hoists, and automation technology such as its Magnetek-brand Intelli-Crane family of products to the industry, among others. “While the automotive sector was
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hit hard with the pandemic, like most sectors, they are continuing to make investments, but at a more conservative pace. Manufacturers continue to build new plants, upgrade existing cranes, and purchase new cranes despite these uncertain times, and are looking for ways to increase the safety of their operations,” he says.
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he automotive industry was hit hard by Covid-19 and countries that were heavily impacted by the outbreak included China, which
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