MINI CRANES Ӏ SECTOR REPORT


UNIC’s new UM325 pop-up, folded (left), and popped-up (right)


Mini cranes are getting bigger – not physically but in the marketplace. Julian Champkin investigates the growth of the mini.


SMALL BUT PERFECTLY FORMED


If any sector of the crane world is expanding faster than any other it would seem to be the mini crane. Makers are opening new dealerships all around the globe at a rate that it is hard to keep up


24 CRANES TODAY


with. The box on page 28 shows many, but probably not all, of the more recent.


The cranes themselves are


evolving as well. Simplicity of operation and of technology is,


perhaps paradoxically, giving way to extreme simplicity of operation and almost as extreme sophistication of technology. There have been changes in


geometry as well. The spider crane


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