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into the future. The highest demands for technology, for safety systems, for digital automation, for reach, they all come from Europe. “Palfinger’s TEC range, for
example, is our knuckleboom with the greatest focus on technology. Stand at the end of the boom of one and look up at it. See the way it is put together. What you see is engineering at its most dense.” Great thought and analysis have gone into every component, and into the way that they all function together. “The telescopic segments are a complex shape designed for maximum of efficiency in the minimum of space. It offers loads of functionalities; from an engineering perspective it has been put together in a challenging way. That complexity is the hallmark of a purely European design. It is not just the case with Palfinger cranes; it will be the same no matter which
Amco Veba’s VR 66 knuckleboom.
The Hiab J14S,
a heavy-duty loader tailored for material handling across the US market.
manufacturer you are considering. “Palfinger has a global portfolio, and the TEC range is exported all over the world,” he says. “Even so, 95% of our TEC range models stay in Europe. It is our biggest crane, it has the longest reach, especially
with a fly jib, it offers a variety of different things you can do with it; it is very flexible, it is designed for complex loading and unloading, perhaps very high up, through a door or through a window. This is what it is meant for.” Palfinger has simpler ranges
also. “One step below the TEC is our SLD range. ‘SLD’ stands for ‘Solid’; it is simpler, it is more robust, it doesn’t do very high or very heavy or very complicated lifting; what it does do well is loading and unloading things like bricks and blocks on and off the back of the vehicle itself, so it is what the average builders merchant wants and needs. And that of course calls for a different set of electronics, and less exacting specifications in reach and capacity, than the TEC, but it is more robust, more reliable, easier to use. Which is why it’s called ‘Solid’. Again the biggest market for this type of equipment is still Europe, but again it is exported, to Russia, to Asia and to America, and this time in quantity so this is more of a global product.” Continents therefore have
different demands; but even within Europe there are what he calls ‘local habits’: “There is a North- South divide. In Scandinavian
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