SELF ERECTING CRANES Ӏ SECTOR INSIGHT


DREAM MACHINE


Nicola Castenetto, business line director for self erecting cranes at Terex, tells Julian Champkin why he is so excited about the potential of the sector.


Nicola Castenetto is Terex’s newly- appointed business line director for self erecting cranes. He has been with the company for 15 years; his new position perhaps reflects a new regard for the type, within Terex and elsewhere: “We are really in a stage of growth with our self erecting cranes,” he says. “They are now a focus of thinking and expansion within the company, so this is obviously a nice place to be.” For an informed view on the self erector, therefore, he is an ideal source. “We are moving our growth


in self erecting cranes in three directions,” he says. “Commercially we are trying to strengthen the relationship with our existing partners and at the same time we are opening new markets, which means a nice opportunity to look at the countries where in the past we have not been so present.” More on that in a moment. “Linked to that is the second


very important thing: we are expanding our output here.” ‘Here’ is Fontafredda in northern Italy, between Venice and the Alps, historically a powerhouse of Italian engineering and Italian crane- making. “We are building a new factory. The work is progressing, it


42 CRANES TODAY Terex is


developing a CSE line for the North American market


will be coming to reality, and it will be focussing on self erecting cranes. We will be getting the keys at the end of this year so production will begin at the start of 2023. We need this expansion to cope with the increasing demand that we see for our self erecting cranes.” It is a big investment for Terex,


in the multi-million-euro range. It is also a confirmation that the company believes in the product and is campaigning to grow it. “And the third direction is growth in our range of the product. We are developing a new range, called the CSE.” The current CSE range has jib lengths of between 30 and 40


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