Search Results: 'Cranes Asia'

Smart loaders
26 December, 2012
At Italian exhibition SAIE, Italian loader crane manufacturers had some things in common besides battling the Euro slump. As well as launching EU-compliant electronics, their flashiest new features were meant to dazzle clients, even those far overseas. Cristina Brooks reports

In the long haul
16 November, 2012
Cristina Brooks finds out how the size of crane components can impact on transport costs. At the top end of the market, dealers complain, customers around the world can pay an extra $20,000 to transport oversize parts.

Bauma China 2012
15 November, 2012
New cranes are on the agenda for Bauma China, the International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery in Shanghai this month. Attractions will include the unveiling of new truck cranes from Manitowoc, as well as a redesign of the crawler range from FuWa.

The view from the top
13 November, 2012
In 2002, the international cranebuilding industry was undergoing rapid consolidation. Cranes Today spoke to two of the men leading the new US-owned giants, Terex’s Fil Filipov and Manitowoc’s Glen Tellock, about the major acquisitions that the companies had recently completed.

After the earthquake
19 October, 2012
In the first of a two part series on natural disasters, Stuart Anderson looks at the work the New Zealand crane industry has done in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake.

AMENDED: Keeping track of the Asian boom
18 October, 2012
At Crane’s Today’s annual conference in Singapore, Cranes Asia, some questioned whether Asian crane production levels could continue indefinitely. Regional dealers spoke out about service needs.

Defining the middle
17 October, 2012
The mid-range of crawler capacities covers equipment working on jobs from general construction through to specialist engineered lifts. Will North speaks to manufacturers about their latest products, and tries to work out just where the middle lies.

Back on the rails
18 September, 2012
Mitchell has plans for crawlers that ride the rails, as other manufacturers Kirow, XCMG, Tadano Mantis, Sennebogen and Kirovsky improve their railway cranes. Cristina Brooks reports

From Austria to the world
03 August, 2012
Over the last ten years Palfinger has worked to diversify its product range and internationalise its sales. Will North spoke to CEO Herbert Ortner, and managers of the group's new worldwidebusinesses, during the company's 80th birthday celebrations near Salzburg

A truckload of change
02 August, 2012
For fifty years or more, Europe’s truck-loader manufacturers have dominated world markets with their broad ranges of articulated boom loaders. Now given the serious debt issues facing many of Europe’s largest knuckleboom markets, Stuart Anderson asks, what will be the manufacturers’ survival and growth strategies?

Russia keeps on trucking
31 July, 2012
Local truck-mounted crane manufacturers continue to dominate in Russia. Cristina Brooks reports from CTT Expo in Moscow.

A Parisian hors d’oeuvre
18 May, 2012
Intermat may not have satiated those hungry for the biggest of crane launches, but it offered a tasty selection of innovations and new developments, and whet appetites for Bauma next year.

Booming again?
16 May, 2012
While the Eurozone crisis is most certainly having a significant impact on regional sales of all terrains, crawler cranes, tower cranes and knuckle boom loaders, one segment that – for once – can be somewhat relieved for its limited popularity in much of Europe, is the humble rough terrain. Stuart Anderson reports

Through the wurst of it
16 May, 2012
Despite the Eurozone’s imminent second recessionary dip, a strong German market and recovering global demand is giving the Western European crane industry hope it can ride out the worst.

Winners sell at home, heroes sell overseas
23 February, 2012
Exhibitors at BICES, once seen by many as China’s ‘domestic’ construction equipment show, are increasingly setting their sights on export markets. Kevin Walsh reports from Beijing

Make it mini
23 February, 2012
Contractors are sizing up minicranes for saving time and money. Flexible, small fold-up lifters get inside buildings, up lifts, inside crannies, and helicopter to remote places to provide up to 6t of lifting power. Cristina Brooks reports.