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Manitowoc is celebrating a significant milestone showcasing its newest tower cranes and highlighting several innovative tower crane components at Intermat Paris 2018 in France.

Manitowoc has increased its support to customers in South Australia (SA) with the appointment of WATM Crane Sales & Service as its exclusive dealer for the region. WATM has over 40 years of construction equipment experience — 18 as Manitowoc’s dealer in Western Australia (WA). The company will be responsible for the sales and support for the complete range of Grove mobile cranes and Manitowoc crawler cranes.

Moscow-based crane rental company TOPKRAN-RENT has purchased four new Potain Hup cranes – the first to be sold in Russia. The well-established contractor has purchased four new Hup 40-30 self-erecting cranes. All four cranes will be put to work on a four-month project in the capital.

Italian rental company Farioli has purchased its first Grove all-terrain crane. The family-owned business based in Novara in the north west of the country bought a 200 t capacity GMK5200-1. Launched in 2015 the GMK5200-1 is a five-axle mobile crane with a 64 m main boom.

Australian crane rental company Cranes Combined supplied a Grove GMK5150L all-terrain crane to move a church in the state of Tasmania. Equipped with 5.6 t of counterweight and working at a radius of just under 12 m the crane took approximately seven hours to move the 6 t church which had been in position for over 100 years.

Manitowoc has opened a new Crane Care training center in the city of Santana de Parnaíba which is located in the metropolitan area of São Paulo a major South American transportation hub. The move will provide easier access to Manitowoc’s training programs for technicians across Latin America.

Mark Hooper has joined Manitowoc as Vice President Sales – North America Distribution Management Hydraulic and Crawler Cranes. Hooper is responsible for sales leadership and product management for Grove rough-terrain truck-mounted telecrawler all-terrain and carrydeck product lines in North America. Hooper has more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience in the construction industry with much of that time spent at Case New Holland. He will report directly to David Hull Vice President – Americas Sales.

Manitowoc Cranes has announced a new smartphone app that will help customers to diagnose technical issues on their cranes much faster. The free app will be available on iOS and Android devices and will enable users to understand the numeric diagnostic codes that are generated by their on-board control systems. Manitowoc is the first manufacturer in the crane industry to release an app of this kind.

Maxim Crane Works (Maxim) has added 48 new Potain top-slewing tower cranes to its already expansive Potain fleet. The Newport Kentucky-based company will start taking deliveries of the new tower cranes beginning in May of 2018.

German crane specialist BKL Baukran Logistik has used a Grove GMK6400 to lift parts of a 24 t (26.5 USt) derrick crane atop a 94 m (308 ft)-high bank in Eschborn northwest Frankfurt. The derrick crane is needed to conduct roof refurbishment in the area.

Manitowoc’s Icelandic dealer Kraftvélar has showcased its broad range of crane solutions at Verk og vit 2018 (Construct North) a construction tradeshow that took place between March 8-11 2018 in the country’s capital of Reykjavik.

Manitowoc has announced that it will launch a follow-up to the hugely popular Grove GMK6300L all-terrain crane which launched in 2010 and became an immediate worldwide hit. The new 300 t (350 USt) capacity model is the GMK6300L-1 and it will continue its predecessor’s legacy bringing new levels of performance leadership to the six-axle category.