Two new entrants to the crawler crane production business exhibited their machines at Bauma. Both are Italian, and both are specialists in the foundation and piling equipment business looking to diversify into lifting.
Mait, a public company with 200 employees and sales of Euro 16m a year, says that its crane was produced in response to demands from customers of its piling rigs which also wanted lifting equipment. Its first unit is the HC 540, a 50t capacity machine suitable for lifting or foundation work, powered by a 240kW Caterpillar engine. The angle section boom has a maximum length of 24.4m. Main winch offers up to 200kN of force and the auxiliary winch offers 160kN.
CMV has been producing piling rigs in Italy since 1968 and has an annual turnover of Euro 25m and 100 employees. It exhibited the TL 35 crawler crane, which has an unusual square section boom, making it very heavy duty. “According to our computers, it is better for stress,” explains marketing director Vittorio Nepoti. It is the first machine produced by CMV using three dimensional CAD.
The TL 35 can lift 32.9t at 3.25m working radius and is targeted and customers looking to replace old Link-Belt 98 and Ruston 23 models. As with the Mait machine, it is designed for lifting and as a base unit for auxiliary equipment. It has a 2.5m transport width and can be transported with 17m of boom fitted on the crane (maximum boom length is 26m) and can be rigged in one hour, Nepoti says. With 17m of boom and 5t of counterweight it has a transport weight of 28t.
A 50t model is being prepared for exhibition by CMV at the Sao Paulo fair in Brazil in August. Depending on market response, CMV is looking to produce six cranes this year.
