REPAIR AND REFURBISHMENT Ӏ SECTOR SPOTLIGHT


RISING TO THE CHALLENGE


With crane rental companies facing a growing skills gap in their service teams,


OEMs and third-party specialists must step up their repair and refurbishment offerings. Dan Jenkins reports on how these companies are rising to the challenge.


Like many industries, the crane sector is facing a skills gap. In particular, good service engineers and technicians are hard to find, although some crane rental companies are managing better than others. In many cases these companies are turning to the OEM for service and repair,


Around the


world Liebherr has hundreds of personnel servicing cranes


or to third-party repair and refurbishment specialists. Crowland Cranes is the UK’s


largest independent service and repair provider. It is picking up more repair work from crane hire companies who used to do it themselves. “There are a lot of great crane hire companies


out there who have excellent workshops,” says Pete Issitt, owner and managing director. “The challenge across the whole industry is finding good people to staff them – and holding onto those people. “These companies increasingly rely on us to fill that gap. This is


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