Search Results: 'bauma'

All terrains for all people
15 December, 2006
100t (110 US ton) all terrain cranes form the backbone of the industry. With at least two more 100 tonners launching at Bauma next year from Grove and Terex-Demag, the class will continue to dominate mobile rental fleets, reports Will North

Shanghai salutations
13 December, 2006
Bauma China review

Zoomlion's new truck spread
13 December, 2006
Zoomlion launched a range of four hydraulic truck cranes - the 32t QY30V-1, 40t QY40V, 55t capacity QY50V (42m boom length) and 70t QY70V (44m boom length) and the 160t capacity QAY160 AT.

Trio of BQ Tadanos
13 December, 2006
Three BQ Tadano truck crane models for Asia were on show, each with a Japan-made boom and a different carrier. BQ Tadano is a 50:50 joint venture between Tadano of Japan and China's Beijing Crane Works.

SYM's big luffer
13 December, 2006
Sanyo Heavy Industry Group (SYM) showed a luffing-jib tower crane with lifting capacity of 3t at 50m jib-end. The crane can pick up a 10t load out to 20m.

Comansa opens Chinese JV
13 December, 2006
The Spanish tower crane manufacturer has bought a Chinese tower crane company.

Rise of the rising tower
11 December, 2006
While Grove calls its GTK 1100 telescoping mobile crane concept - whose prototype will be on show at Bauma - a brand new type of crane, it might be more accurate to say it is extending an old idea. As Heinz-Gert Kessel reports, this concept has been used before to bring extra height to conventional cranes operating at their limits

CEA launches Business Tracker CD
01 December, 2006
The Construction Equipment Association (CEA) is pleased to announce the launch of its 2007 Business Tracker CD Rom - at the Bauma China exhibition in Shanghai (21-24 November 2006).

Hitachi-Sumitomo to launch 70t lattice-boom truck crane
27 November, 2006
Hitachi-Sumitomo is launching a 70t-capacity lattice-boom truck crane with carrier from Link-Belt in about April, sales promotion secretary Hayato Takebe told Cranes Today at the Shanghai, China Bauma China show.

XCMG debuts 300t AT
27 November, 2006
XCMG has shown the largest truck crane made in China, the seven-axle, 300t capacity QAY 300, at the Bauma China show.

Kobelco launches 550t crawler
27 November, 2006
Kobelco is testing a 550t capacity crawler for a planned launch at the beginning of 2007. “Our concept is to do a complete 600,000kW power plant job, windmills, petro-chemical plants and oil refineries,” Fujiki Daisuke, product planning and marketing manager, told Cranes Today at Shanghai’s Bauma China show.

Amco Veba invests in small end
15 November, 2006
Amco Veba has increased turnover 40% since January, according to president Giancarlo Perego.

FM debuts three cranes
15 November, 2006
FM claims an erection time of only three hours for its new topless city-class tower crane, the 1040 TLX. An operator cabin is optional for the crane, which lifts 1t to 40m jib-end, and 2.4t to 18.5m. The S1210 model with 1.2m-square mast sections rises to maximum height of 36m. In 2007, the company will produce a new flat-top with 80m jib, according to export manager Luciano Conti.

The biggest in the world
14 November, 2006
Stuart Anderson visits the biggest mobile crane manufacturer in the world

Booming Emirates
13 November, 2006
The United Arab Emirates has one of the world's fastest growing economies. Construction is booming and crane fleets are growing quickly. Phil Bishop reports

Cranes Today launches buyer's guide
28 September, 2006
The publishers of Cranes Today are launching a new buyer’s guide for 2007 that replaces the Cranes Today Handbook.  The new reference source is a smaller format and removes the Handbook’s product data sections in favour of an expanded supplier directory, organised by product type.

Crane preview
28 September, 2006
Manitowoc Crane Group is launching a new design of crane for high lifting jobs.

Building the birds' nest
27 September, 2006
While visitors plan their trips to Shanghai for Bauma China, some contractors continue to work on high-profile domestic projects. Mammoet provided three cranes for the 100,000 seat Olympic Stadium Beijing, the track and field stadium for the 39th Olympic games. The stadium measures 330m long, 220m wide and 69m tall.

Showtime in China (again!)
17 September, 2006
Six months after the launch of challenger Conexpo Asia, Bauma China returns with the European contingent of Western exhibitors

Puyuan
15 September, 2006
On show are a total of six cranes from China’s number two producer in terms of truck crane production volumes.