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applications and digital products, loader cranes, light and medium, Hiab. "No additional weight is added when you go electric — this makes it a real sustainable option.”
CORE VALUES Palfinger, too, is moving to electric power and electronic sophistication. The company has completely redesigned its core product, the Knuckleboom loader crane, to focus, it says, on three key cores: smart solutions, smart services, and eco-efficiency. Its stated rationale is that inner-
city jobsites and lifting tasks can now present complex challenges and require long reaches, and intelligent technologies – plus longer booms. Hence its new TEC range. The new design, it says, combines the advantages of its predecessors with digital systems such as the Paltronic 180 control system and the LX-6 control valve. All models in the TEC series
feature Palfinger’s Smart Control to control the crane tip. Palfinger claims the system is revolutionising the work process, uniting the crane with the operator. Instead of moving up to three different levers, Smart Control only requires one lever to move the crane tip horizontally or vertically. The operator therefore
Palfinger’s PK 1050 TEC has a 37m reach
only needs to specify the direction of the crane tip, while the intelligent technology combines the necessary crane movements to reach the target position exactly. There is also a Memory Position crane positioning system, which can store up to four crane positions, and the Levelling Assistant which helps optimally to level the cranes. “The future of construction is high-tech and interconnected,” says Palfinger. “These smart systems enable a faster start to operations as well as more efficient and simpler work processes.” The first of the new models to be seen out on the road will be the 60-metre-tonne PK 580 TEC. When used with Palfinger’s mobile hybrid power unit it becomes emission-free with a minimum of noise emissions; an integrated tilting crane fork on the fly jib creates a high degree of safety for
challenging work for example in narrow spaces. Its sister introduction, the PK
1050 TEC, goes for the large crane segment. With a fly jib and enormous lifting capacity and reach, it stands out in its metre-tonne class with a reach of 37 metres. With DPS-C the lifting capacity is continuously maximised in every position because the intelligent system knows exactly where the crane tip is at any given moment. Palfinger is going small as well: its new PK 250 TEC — currently the smallest P-Profile crane — is a compact crane but even so has hydraulic reach of almost 20 metres and a maximum lifting capacity of 23.5-metre-tonnes. Palfinger’s goal is to digitise
its product range. Electrification also creates sustainable added value. At Bauma 2022, the company presented its eDRIVE
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