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

Manitowoc signs crane engineering deal with Indian IT firm
06 December, 2012
Manitowoc has signed a deal with HCL, that will see the Indian IT services firm provide engineering services supporting the cranebuilder's design centres around the world, and new product development initiatives in emerging markets. The companies have built a global engineering centre in Pune, where Manitowoc currently builds some models of its Potain tower cranes.

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.

Potain breaks bridge records
24 October, 2012
Potain supplied two cranes, including a giant MD 1100, to work on the recently-completed, record breaking, Russky Island Bridge in Vladivostok.

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.

Competing to qualify
15 October, 2012
Around the world, certification and qualification groups offer different approaches to training. Within their home markets, and internationally, these different approaches are coming into competition.

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

ALE's Australian joint venture
03 September, 2012
ALE Australia, the regional branch of the major UK hiring firm, announced a joint venture with heavylifter ECR, of Gladstone, Australia.

Singapore and Malaysian regulators speak at Cranes Asia
23 August, 2012
The programme for Cranes Asia, Cranes Today's annual Singapore-based conference, has just been finalised, with the late addition of regulators from Singapore and Malaysia.

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.

Cargotec to expand presence in China with loader truck JV 
18 July, 2012
Seeking to gain a larger presence in the Chinese truck-mounted crane and load handling market, Cargotec announced new joint venture with China National Heavy Duty Truck Group (CNHTC).

Coming back to Singapore
11 July, 2012
For the past nine months I've been working on putting together a speaker programme for our regional conference, Cranes Asia, in Singapore.

Potain introduces its Chinese-made MCT 385
09 July, 2012
Potain has introduced its first Asian topless tower crane manufactured at its Zhangjiagang, China production facilities, the MCT 385, filling a gap in the company’s product lines available in Asia.

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.