GMVykon

Our parent company Gruas Monterrey was formed in 1971 as a tow truck company. The industrial crane branch of the company's business grew and became more specialised, and in 2009 was established as a separate company, GMVykon.

We have around 100 cranes, and heavy haulage equipment in our transport division, as well as vehicles such as forklifts. All of our cranes are hydraulic, and include rough terrains, all terrains, boom trucks and truckmounted cranes.

We mostly serve eastern Mexico, working from Monterrey, and serve sectors such as the steel, wind and energy, and construction industries-providing cranes as well as industrial maintenance.

Our company specialises in meeting emergency requirements for cranes-for example if a taxi crane stops working, we can supply a replacement. While most crane companies in our region only have the sufficient number of cranes for the jobs they are supplying, our company has spares ready to go.

We also provide service and spare parts, and have regular contact with the main crane manufacturers locally, so we are able to have parts ready within 24 hours.

We recently acquired a Liebherr 1750-9.1, which we are using for construction projects in cities, energy plants, steel plant maintenance, and wind farm maintenance. As it can travel on roads, it offers a very fast response to emergency repair work. We are constantly renewing our fleet-this year we have purchased a Grove GMK6400 crane with luffing jib, as well as a GMK5220, a GMK5170 and a GMK5130.

We are still growing-there are opportunities in the market and we want to be the biggest crane company in Mexico. We are looking to expand our rigging business-we provide logistical services to projects such as moving plants from one location to another, including in-plant moving of heavy machinery, and disassembly and re-assembly of mechanical and electronic systems.

One area we may expand into in the future is structural cranes. We currently have partners who can supply our customers, but we may establish our own fleet. Monterrey used to be very flat, but now there is an increasing number of skyscrapers, and so demand for tower cranes in growing.

We recently assisted the construction of the US consulate in Monterrey. We were chosen for the project due to having the newest cranes in the region. Customers are increasingly focused on safety, and we have certification for our cranes, and for our employees including our operators and riggers.

We also supplied lots of small cranes to an ongoing car manufacturing facility project in Pesquería, which is one of the largest in the region.