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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.

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 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.

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 a annoncé le lancement du successeur de la grue automotrice routière extrêmement prisée Grove GMK6300L qui a été mise sur le marché en 2010 et a immédiatement connu un succès mondial. Le nouveau modèle la GMK6300L-1 d’une capacité de 300 t (350 t U.S.) perpétuera l’héritage de son prédécesseur en atteignant de nouveaux sommets en matière de performances en tête de la catégorie des six essieux.

Nigeria Liquid Natural Gas (NLNG) has purchased two Grove GMK5130-2 all-terrain cranes. The company runs one of the world’s largest gas liquefaction plants from its facility on Bonny Island Nigeria. The two 130 t capacity cranes will be used for plant maintenance and construction work.

PT Saranabaja Perkasa has received three new Grove all-terrain cranes. Two are GMK4100L units while the third is a GMK5220. All were purchased from local dealer PT SH Machinery Indonesia. Hidayat president-director of PT Saranabaja Perkasa said there were several design features that attracted his company to the Grove brand.

Crane rental company Skylift Crane Services is the latest Australian business to invest in the increasingly popular GMK4100L-1 from Grove’s long-boom series of all-terrain cranes. At just 2.55 m wide and 13.42 m long the crane is easier to maneuver than five-axle alternatives yet its 100 t capacity and 60 m Megaform boom mean it has the strength and reach to take on lifts more commonly associated with larger cranes.