28 Cranes & Access May/June 2001

Nearly 400,000 profes-sional visitors from 153countries visited bauma.That explains why youoften had difficulty get-

ting through the aisles to find that onecompany you still had to visit. Fridayseemed like the busiest day as hundredsof people gathered around the biggestmachines at the show – among the mostpopular were without doubt an enor-mous excavator and truck at the front ofthe Liebherr stand. Another popularspot was the Terex stand from which apresenter regularly threw souvenir foot-balls into an expectant crowd!

The big cranes and truck mountedaccess platforms also drew big cranes.

News Now!An on-line news service for the lifting industry was launchedat bauma. Vertikal.net reported live from the show and isnow offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date newsservice available. We were, for example, the first to reporton the Holland Lift scissor on Haulotte’s stand at baumaand to give details of Manitowoc’s four new cranes.

A feature of the service is that you can choose whichsubjects interest you, eg tower cranes or scissor lifts, andthen ask us to let you know by e-mail when something

really important happens.The service is currently free.

To join, just type vertikal.net into your web browser orlook for the advert in this issue of Cranes & Access.

Bauma 2001 was the largest single collection of construction equipment everassembled anywhere in theworld. Cranes & Accessreports from the thick of it

to the delight of the Kobelco team, hewent back and ordered a secondCKE2500 during the show declaring atthe same time that it was “the best in itsclass”.. Demag also pulled in thecrowds who were treated to both endsof the spectrum: the AC60 four-axlecity class was definitely a favourite aswas the Sideways Superlift on the new300 tonne capacity AC 300-1 and theCC 1800-1.

Throughout the show huge amountsof business were done and new prod-ucts were launched. Liftlux appeared onthe Potain stand for the first time and,as reported in this month’s news pages,its president gave a ringing endorse-ment of the product: “Potain’s accessoperations need to become a significantpart of our turnover” said Jean-YvesBouffault adding that for him some-thing around 25 per cent would be sig-nificant. “We have unlimited fundsavailable for the right ideas and projectsand want to see our access divisionoffering a full range of services whichcould include hoists, mast-climbingwork platforms and any other methodof lifting personnel”.

Spoiled for cranesVisitors to the show were well and trulyspoiled for choice when it came tocranes. Nearly every manufacturer ofmobile cranes, tower cranes, crawler

Ruthmann’s 100 metre high TTS1000was of course a major draw for manyvisitors although a surprising number ofindustry professionals confessed to thiscorrespondent that “I don’t really needto go up it!” Your correspondent didhave that pleasure and, despite a certainamount of trepidation, can report thatthe machine is utterly smooth and rocksteady – “like a 100 metre balcony” asone of Ruthmann’s staff put it!

For the crane industry one of themost important group of visitors to theshow was the Van Seumeren family.Handing over ceremonies were held onthe Manitowoc, Liebherr, Sennebogenand Kobelco stands! Jan van Seumerenliked the Kobelco crane so much that,

Grove’s75 t

capacitycrane Munich Ma

For mobile crane visitors there wasmuch to see. As mentioned there weresome very large cranes, but there wasjust as much interest in the smallercranes. Grove’s new 75 tonne GMK4075 attracted much interest and isreported to be selling well. The com-pany was also pleased with response tothe new 300 tonne capacity GMK 6300with Megalift. On Tadano Faun’s standthere were three new mobile cranes.

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number 555. This will have a 73 metreheavy lift boom although maximumboom length will be 119 metres. Alsoannounced were the 915 and 1015 dutycycle machines. Maximum liftingcapacity is 100 tonnes using a 13.6tonne fixed jib and 55 metres of mainboom. The 1015 is the same size as the915 but can be fitted with additionalpower to give a staggering 1200hp. Thefourth new crane to be announced is the19000. This 450 tonne capacity cranehas a 177 tonne luffing jib but onlyutilises 99 tonnes of counterweight.Larry Weyers, vice president of sales,said this was more than 80 per cent lessthan most comparable

Sennebogen also scored a consider-able success with its new 180 tonnecapacity 5500 Star Lifter. This was dis-played in Mammoet colours and wasdelivered straight after the show.Alongside it was a new 35 tonne tele-scopic boom crawler crane.

So what drew the390,000 people,28 per cent ofwhom came from outsideGermany? Well,there were2,341 exhibitorson 445,000square metres ofexhibition spaceand it was agreat opportunityto catch up oneverything that’snew in theconstructionindustry.

cranes and loader cranes was presentand it is difficult to know where to beginwith a review of the show. One of thelargest cranes at the show wasLiebherr’s LR 1600/1 which has a maxi-mum capacity of 600 tonnes and can beused as a Pedestal Crane using swingout outriggers. This increases liftingcapacities by up to 267 per cent. Alsoon the stand was the LR 1160 whichhad been bought by Weldex of the UK.New from Kobelco was the 250 tonneCKE2500 which was joined by new 80and 90 tonne cranes. The name reflectsKobelco’s new model numbering sys-tem in Europe in which the numberindicates the capacity in metric tonnes.All models have been re-numbered inthis way. A particular feature of theCKE2500 is the long boom: With luff-ing tower this crane lifts 70 tonnes at 10metres radius. With fixed jib it lifts 26.8tonnes at 10 metres radius. Maximummain boom of this compact crane is 100metres.

Four new crane models wereannounced by Manitowoc and will bebuilt within the next 12 months. Thecompany also announced the introduc-tion of CAN-BUS technology on all ofthe new models and stressed that thishad been fully integrated with the exist-ing EPIC control technology. The firstnew crane to be announced is a 136tonne capacity lift crane with the model

Scissor liftsand all kinds

of accessequipmentwere well

representedat Bauma

The new TT cranefrom Liebherr

Liebherr’s truck-mountedtower crane

adness!

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The 3-axle, 45 tonneATF 45-3 with 34metre main boom, the4-axle 80 tonne ATF80-4 with 48.5 metre boom and the topof the range ATF 200-6 which has 200tonnes capacity and a 60 metre boom.Again, visitor reaction was positive withgood sales reported after the show. ForCompact Truck the show was also asuccess. It showed its hydrostatic rangeof mobile cranes. These now includethe CT.2-40, the CT.3-70 and theCT.3-80 which has 4-axles and is ratedas an 80 tonne capacity crane.Maximum boom length is 46 metres.For Kato the star of the show was theCity range of cranes which attractedmuch interest from German visitors –Kato is almost unknown in Germany.Liebherr had a huge stand andlaunched a new 55 tonne LTM 1055/1which is highly compact and is claimedto offer fuel economies of 15 per cent.Also on show were the new 200 tonneLTM 1200/1 which has a 60 metermain boom that can be extended to give100 metres under hook. The longestmain boom at the show was probablythe 72 metre boom on the 250 tonnecapacity LTM 1250/1.

Cross-over cranesFor loader crane buyers there were ahost of stands to see. Tirre, Amco Veba,Heila, Cormach, Fassi, PM, Hiab, justsome of the names. Visitors to Cranes &Access stand seemed to be particularlystruck by the larger machines on thePalfinger stand. More news in our nextissue.

There were also a number “cross-over” cranes – Liebherr and Spieringsare both selling truck mounted, self-erecting tower cranes. Interestingly,

Liebherr’s mobile crane divisionis having more success than thetower crane division andannounced during the show thatit had sold a number of MK80s.

For tower crane visitors theshow was a real opportunity tocatch up on new technology.The Igo self-erecting crane wasthe centre piece of the Potainstand although there was also animpressive array of conventional towercranes. For Liebherr the TT telescop-ing tower crane was a surprise launchand drew interested onlookers. FromMAN Wolffkran, which was emphasis-ing its role as a supplier of rental cranes,came the 180 B with 31.5 metres towerheight and a 55 metre working radius.On the Terex stand a full range ofPeiner and Comedil cranes was on

show. A surpriseexhibitor formany was Jostcranes – it showed a new range ofmodular cranes with outriggersand a moving counterweight.

Platform paradiseFor platform buyers there wasalso a wide choice although it wasnoticeable that stands were a littlesmaller than at other shows –many exhibitors complained thatthey had been unable to get thesize they wanted. Again, the list ofexhibitors read like a who’s whoof the access industry with Genie,

JLG, Haulotteand UpRight outin force. Theirnew products areon view at thismonth’s SEDshow and are fea-tured elsewhere inthis issue.

There were alsoa number of new-comers at theshow, one ofwhich was Tadano

with its new Superdeck platforms.These are available in two models, theAW-160 SX and AW 210-SX whichhave working heights of 16 metres and21 metres. Both have a 1 tonne loadcapacity and continuous, 360 degreeplatform rotation. Also new from Japanwas a 1 tonne capacity truck mountfrom Aichi. This is being marketedthroughout Europe by a new company,Willenbrock Concept, which is cur-rently establishing a dealer network.

What else was new? Well PJ Allanannounced that it is now representingGSL in the UK and will shortly start toactively promote the German built scis-sors. EasiUpLifts announced the pur-chase of a number of new platformsfrom Denkalift, Kesla Oy and Scanlift.John Ball told Cranes & Access that thecompany is investing now in order tooffer a re-rental service for the accessindustry throughout the UK. Theintention is to offer specialist platformsthat small to medium sized fleets maynot have in their existing fleets.

New from Snorkel is the SJIII 3226.This electric scissor is designed to fit

Demag’sSidewaysSuperlift

attachmentGenie’s latest

articulatingboom

EasiUpLifts announced avariety of purchases

“Bauma land”

providing finance towould-be Genie customers. NealGarnett, EuropeanManaging Directorof GFS told C&Athat “Our customerswill benefit from the‘one-stop-shop’ con-cept combining the most innovativeaccess equipmentwith customisedfinancial solution thatmeet their needs”.The service was ableto process and con-firm its first enquiriesduring the showwhich allowed severalvisitors to buy duringbauma.

2004The exhibition was a great success fornearly every visitor and exhibitor that wespoke to and we will continue to reporton launches in the months to come. Theweather was kind to the show with blaz-ing hot sunshine on most days exceptSaturday. Weary exhibitors were treatedto a hail storm at 18.00 on the Sundayevening, just as they finally started to dis-mantle their stands!

The next “MegaMunich” is 29 Marchto 4 April, 2004 (bookyour hotel room now tobe sure of a space!). ■

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through standarddoorways but give aworking height of 8metres with 25 percent gradeablity.One of the fewBritish access man-ufacturers at theshow was SEVAerial Access whichdebuted theMZ16VM truckmount which gives9 metres horizontalreach, and the E12trailer mount with a12.2 metre workingheight. New fromLeguan was the 125which is a self-pro-pelled, four wheeldrive mounted on askid steer loader chassis. This isexpected to be shown at SED where vis-itors can check the units excellent off-road ability.

New, new, newFor Dino Lift the show was a chance toshow the new 230 T trailer mounted plat-form. This has a 23 metre working heightand spider-type outriggers. For Grovethere was the launch of a new Toucanmodel and a re-affirmation that it is firmlycommitted to building self-propelled tele-scopic booms. From Bronto came the new70 metre working heightMDT 70 S while fromWumag there was the 85

metre WT 850.A new launch for Genie was the

Runabout – a small self-propelled 75 cen-timetre wide unit that has 2.54, 3.58 and4.62 metre working heights. However, thebiggest story for Genie was in many waysthe launch of its new joint venture with DeLage Landen, one of the largest Dutchfinance companies. The two companieshave formed Genie Financial Solutions.This separate company is charged with

“bauma land” is what the local radiostation called the outdoor area of

bauma and it was a sight/site you’llnever forget. “Somewhere between aconstruction industry Disneyworld andthe fantastic dream site of a lunaticcivil engineer” is how one visitor

described the view to Cranes & Access

A luffing jib featured on Demag’s AC60

Goldhofershowed a

new trailer

Liebherr’sLR1600/1was probablythe largestcrane at theshow