NOVEMBER 2022 Ӏ CRANE HISTORY
ANNIVERSARY
Terex’s rough terrain production facility in Crespellano, Italy
truck crane lines of up to 80-tons (72-tonnes) capacity would be branded Load King ‘Stinger’. Terex US rough terrain crane
production was discontinued with rough terrain production continuing in Crespellano, Italy. In 2022 Terex announced it would close its Oklahoma City plant and that it would transfer production of its line of Genie telehandlers to a new plant in Monterrey, Mexico.
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broadening use of trolley-hoists that can ride up and down steep jib angles.
TEREX AND LOAD KING In 2010 Manitex International acquired trailer manufacturer Load King from Terex and in 2015 the business was acquired by Custom Truck One Source. In mid-2016 Terex announced
it would close its mobile crane and boom truck plant in Waverly, Iowa, and transfer production to the Terex plant in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 2019 Terex sold its truck crane and boom truck product lines to Load King. The former Terex boom truck and
After decades of dependence on wire ropes, in 2012 the first signs of fundamental change emerged in 2012. That year the US rope maker Samson announced its K-100 fibre rope product line which would soon be made available as an option on Manitowoc lattice boom crawler cranes and then Grove rough terrains, truck cranes, and boom trucks.
In 2019 Liebherr introduced the EC-B series of eight flat tops with three of them available with soLITE high-tensile fibre ropes developed in collaboration with Teufelberger. In 2019 Wolffkran acquired an interest in German’s Trowic GmbH – a fibre rope company.
Manitowoc's Pune plant in India
POTAIN IN PUNE In 2019 Manitowoc announced a new Potain manufacturing plant in Pune, India, where for many years it had been producing Potain towers with former licence Shirke. Added to its plant in Zhangjiagang, China, this gave Potain ‘two bites’ at emerging markets from Asian sources. Originally the joint venture plant in Zhangjiagang opened in 1980 but the current 56,000m2 plant was opened in 2012 and by the end of 2018 had produced over 6,000 cranes. Soon after Bauma 2019,
Arcomet and Matebat announced their new name, Uperio, managed by Phiippe Cohet, former Manitowoc executive and now
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chairman of Matebat and CEO of Arcomet. Uperio’s main business would be tower crane rental with a worldwide fleet of 2,200 cranes and it would also operate as a Potain distributor in France, a Terex Towers distributor, and as the Zoomlion distributor in the US through its P&J Arcomet business. One of Cohet’s expressed ambitions was to rationalise this diverse crane fleet through telematic connectivity and machine controls. At Bauma, XCMG chairman
Wang Min said, “at the very beginning of our exports, first we aimed for medium and low-end markets such as Asia, SE Asia and Africa… We realise parts supply and service support have been an issue. We have not been very strong at our management of aftersales service. It has been hard for customers to find the exact parts.” 2019 saw early North American installations of AMCS Technologies DCS 60 devices to management of prohibited overflight zones and avoid the interference of two luffing boom tower cranes. The DCS 60 operates in real time and in 3D to calculate the distance between each crane as well as movement speed. Amongst the first to employ the AMCS devices were two Jaso J380PA luffers operating in Seattle and Vancouver followed by Comedil CTL 272-18 luffers and CTT 202 flat tops. Meanwhile Comansa’s plant in Hangzhou was also expanded to meet demand and introduced several new models. As was also the case in SE Asian countries like Singpore, Hong Kong and Korea, China was demanding significantly larger tower cranes – as big as 25- to 50-tonnes capacity – to meet demand for PPVC pre-fabricated construction. Responding to this trend Zhangjiagang introduced its largest flat top crane – the MCT 565 with a choice of 20t, 25t and32t winches at Bauma China 2019.
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