Capital Equipment News November 2019

MOBILE CRANES

New mobile cranes galore

New mobile crane premieres at bauma 2019, showcasing original equipment manufacturers’ design focus on high performance, economy and outstanding return on investment. Munesu Shoko attended the show and filed this report.

T wo of the new cranes had already been pre- sented at the 2018 customer days at Liebherr’s manufacturing plant in Ehingen – the five-axle 230 t LTM 1230-5.1 mobile crane and the LR 1800-1.0 crawler crane with a maximum lift- ing capacity of 800 t. The Mobile Cranes Division unveiled two brand new products at the show – an 8-axle mobile crane designed for maximum performance and a 5-axle crane whose designers gave economical and flexible crane jobs around the world the highest priority. Manitowoc launched an impressive new unit in the five-

axle category and two new three-axle models. Andreas Cremer, global product director for all-terrain cranes at Manitowoc, says the launch of the new models underlines the company’s increased speed of product development under The Manitowoc Way and its ongoing commitment to building cranes that offer outstanding return on investment. “We believe in developing cranes our customers can use in a wider variety of projects for better return on investment,” says Cremer. “The GMK5250XL-1 is a great example of how we do that. It’s an update to our

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