Photo Credit:Ron van der Velpen, www.vandervelpen.nl
Manitowoc’s GMK 6400 was raised on stilts, allowing visitors to see the combined hydrostatic transmission that allows the crane to smoothly inch forward on job sites. The crane won ESTA’s innovation award. Photo Credit: Ron van der Velpen, www.vandervelpen.nl
Erkin World Power’s unique transporter carrier lets knuckleboom users perform press installations in cramped factories.Photo Credit:Ron van der Velpen, www.vandervelpen.nl
Zoomlion showed two ZTC truck cranes, built at the Milan home of its recently acquired CIFA subsidiary.Photo Credit: Ron van der Velpen, www.vandervelpen.nl
Two crawler cranes from Hitachi Sumitomo. Photo Credit: Ron van der Velpen, www.vandervelpen.nl
A Sany crawler, with its streamlined cab. Photo Credit: Ron van der Velpen, www.vandervelpen.nl
One of the giants of the show, Liebherr’s LR 11000 bridges a gap between the firm’s popular LR 1750 and LR 11350. The first two have been sold to Mammoet (on show) and Weldex. Photo Credit: Ron van der Velpen, www.vandervelpen.nl
Terex showed the first of its new Explorer line of cranes, the Explorer 5800. The new nomenclature is part of Terex’s efforts to focus on use, rather than an engineer’s approximation of maximum capacity. Photo Credit: Ron van der Velpen, www.vandervelpen.nl
Scheuerle’s blade transporter, part of a complete range of wind energy transport equipment, allows turbine parts to be moved through forests, with less trees cut down. Photo Credit: Ron van der Velpen, www.vandervelpen.nl
A CE-marked XCMG QAY 55. Photo Credit: Ron van der Velpen, www.vandervelpen.nl
Kobelco sold two of it’s latest G-series CKE 800G cranes to Cementation Skanska. Shown here are Kevin Townsend (Kobelco), Jamie Dunbar, Steve Joynson, and Martin Pendley (Cementation Skanska), and Mark Evans (Kobelco). Photo Credit: Kobelco.
The outside area, looking down at cranes from Wolff, Spierings, and Link-Belt, among others. Photo Credit: Messe Muenchen International.
