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Linde launches new C-MATIC robotic trucks

Germany-based Linde Material Handling is adding the new C-MATIC robotic trucks that can handle maximum loads of 600, 1,000, and 1,500 kg faster and more agilely than previous models.

The recent MHE market demand is on the uptrend”

Pre-Covid Indian MHE market has shown double digit CAGR since 2014. In-spite of Covid-19 pandemic and business being at standstill for almost four months in 2020, we saw a fast-paced recovery since August 2020, and witnessed the highest ever MHE market in March 2021 and in Q1 2021 which was fuelled by growth in economic activities.

New KAUP forklift truck attachments at William Hackett Lifting

Leavitt Machinery acquires Reliable Forklift

Leavitt Machinery, based in Surrey, British Columbia, has acquired Reliable Forklift Sales. Reliable, started in 2005 by Don and Mary Carlson, continues to experience tremendous growth year after year.

KION india opens new facility in Pune

Supporting the government's Make in India initiative, KION opened India's largest material handling equipment facility in Pune

Setting New Benchmark

Growth in warehousing and logistics sector is picking up with the introduction of GST and infrastructure status to logistics. In this scenario, the warehousing and material handling equipment players are gearing up to meet the emerging demand for advanced equipment.

Linde Hydraulics names new Director Products & Markets

Magnus Stegmann has been appointed Director Products and Markets at the technology company Linde Hydraulics.

DECHOW auctions off premium accessories

Starting now, the experts at DECHOW Auctions based in Hamburg have been entrusted with the sale of mobile equipment from SHW Casting Technologies GmbH.

New Growth Avenues

Warehousing segment in India is evolving fast and is moving towards palletised loads which can be stored at heights.

Modular building on Berlin rooftop

German rental and crane specialist BKL supplied a Linden Comansa tower crane model 21LC750 for the construction of a modular hotel on top of a shopping centre.

Linden Comansa?s luffer to build project in Seattle

The largest luffing-jib tower crane from Linden Comansa, Model LCL700 is has just been erected in downtown Seattle (Washington), USA. Linden Comansa America (LCA) recently supplied a unit of this luffer and a flat top model 21LC550 20t to GLY Construction for the Rufus 2.0 Block 21 site.

UK?s largest flat-top crane lands at Heathrow Airport

The Arora Group is building a new 14-storey hotel next to Terminal 2 of Heathrow airport in London, since May 2017. An essential part of the works is being held by a 21LC750 tower crane, supplied by rental company City Lifting, dealer of Linden Comansa in the UK.

Linden Comansa?s CUBE cab wins international award

The CUBE cabin of Linden Comansa?s tower crane received the iF prize, one of the world?s most important awards for industrial products design.

Linden Comansa to exhibit at the Big 5 Heavy show in Dubai

The Big 5 is organising the Big 5 Heavy show, an event dedicated solely to machinery for public works and construction, and independently to other fairs for the first time.

Linde adds new models to pallet truck, stacker range

Adding new models into its existing lines of machines, Linde has expanded its pallet truck and stacker range. The new additions include Linde T20 R and T25 R pallet trucks with 2 and 2.5 T load capacity, respectively; Linde D12 R double stackers with 1.2 T load capacity; and Linde L14 R and L16 R pallet stackers with 1.4 and 1.6 T load capacity, respectively.

Linden Comansa helps build Colombia?s largest hydroelectric power plant

Three Linden Comansa tower cranes are being used to help build the Ituango hydroelectric power plant, set to become Colombia?s biggest power plant and currently the largest infrastructure project under way in the country.

Linden Comansa introduces new CUBE cab

The tower crane manufacturer Linden Comansa is presenting a new, far more spacious model of cab, in which operators will be able to enjoy optimum visibility of the working area.

Linden Comansa's new cabin design

Tower crane manufacturer Linden Comansa unveiled its new design of tower crane cabin at the Vertikal Days in the UK for the first time. 'The squared shape is new and ideal', 'It's very spacious and bright', 'Uses flat glass, to avoid distortion and be able to easily replace it if necessary', were some of the comments heard at the Vertikal Days show regarding Linden Comansa's new cab, shown to the public for the first time.

We are investing to further improve our product aesthetics

The KION Group recently made news when its Indian forklift truck brand, Voltas, announced joining forces with the long-established Italian brand OM in India. In this context, Sunil Gupta, CEO and Managing Director, KION India, elaborates on the company's strategies and the way ahead.

Linden Comansa unveils new cabin design

Tower crane manufacturer Linden Comansa unveiled its new design of tower crane cabin at the Vertikal Days in the UK for the first time. ?The squared shape is new and ideal?, ?It?s very spacious and bright?, ?Uses flat glass, to avoid distortion and be able to easily replace it if necessary?, were some of the comments heard at the Vertikal Days show regarding Linden Comansa?s new cab, shown to the public for the first time.

Linden Comansa tower cranes at Real Betis stadium

The Spanish football team is completing the expansion of the ?Benito Villamarin? stadium with the support of three Linden Comansa cranes model 21LC290 from rental company Eleva Gr?as Torre.

Voltas and OM to join hands in India

KION?s Indian forklift truck brand, Voltas, is joining forces with the Italian brand OM in India. To harness the vast market potential of the subcontinent even more effectively, trucks containing Voltas technology will in future be marketed under the name OM Voltas. KION India will also be selling products based on the technology of the Italian KION brand under the sole name of OM. ?We will be combining one hundred years of OM technical know-how and 65 years of Voltas expertise. The idea is to strengthen our market position in India by capitalising further on the KION,? emphasised Sunil K Gupta, CEO, KION India.

New luffing-jib crane from Linden Comansa

The use of high-tonnage, prefabricated components and extremely large steel beams in construction is a growing trend, based on the fact that it reduces project-completion times. Linden Comansa has responded to that need with the launch of the LCL700, the largest in its range of luffing-jib tower cranes to date.

Magna Tyres announces partnership with Reifen Kiefer

Magna Tyres Group and Reifen Kiefer have announced the formation of their strategic partnership. This agreement is an important step for the further introduction and the expansion of ?Magna? as a well-known OTR tyre brand in Germany.

Magna Tyres announces partnership with Reifen Kiefer

Linden Comansa introduces new luffing-jib crane

Linden Comansa has launched the LCL700, the largest in its range of luffing-jib tower cranes to date. Two versions of the LCL700 are launched on the global market, with maximum load capacities of 64 and 50 tonne (141,090 and 110,230 lb).

New Luffing-jib Crane from Comansa CM

Comansa CM has launched its first luffing-jib tower crane, CML190 at bauma China 2016. With this brand new model, Comansa CM released the CML Series of luffing-jib cranes, which will be completed in the following months with more cranes.

Linden Comansa to exhibit the LCL310 crane at ConExpo

Linden Comansa will participate at the upcoming 2017 ConExpo-Con/Agg trade show, along with Linden Comansa America (LCA), the manufacturer?s exclusive North American distribution and service company. The group's booth location is G-2789 in the Gold Lot of the outdoor exhibition area at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

New Luffing-jib Crane from Comansa CM

New Flat-top Tower Cranes

The new CM1600 Series allows Comansa CM to fill the gap between the CM1100 Series and the CM2100 Series. Tower crane manufacturer Comansa CM, part of the Linden Comansa group, announced the launch of a new series of flat-top tower cranes.

Linden Comansa hooks up with Swedish tower

Construction company JM Sverige is about to finish the Kista Torn, a residential building located in the district of Kista, in Stockholm. The complex is formed by the 120-m-high Kista tower (35 floors) and the smaller K2 building (15 floors), which both together will house 362 apartments.

Linden Comansa showcases tallest tower crane

With a freestanding height under hook of 80.9 m and a jib length of 80 m, the 21LC750 tower crane from Linden Comansa could be seen from every corner of the Bauma trade show.

Palletisation can bring in higher throughput and desired efficiency

The estimated market size of the total Indian logistics market is to the tune of $200 billion and it generates employment for close to 50 million people in our country.

Material Handling: Meteoric Rise

Modern warehousing and inter modal logistics industry initiatives in India, have redefined how business is conducted in the country in most industry sectors as well as its geographic regions.

Comansa optimises LC2100 series

The LC2100 series is mainly designed to operate in industrial, mining, infrastructure and public works projects and is one of the most successful series from Linden Comansa. The R&D team of Linden Comansa has worked to optimise various models of this series.

Linden Comansa and BKL team up

Linden Comansa and German dealer BKL Baukran Logistik GmbH will exhibit together at Bauma 2016.

Linden Comansa at Thailand?s tallest skyscraper

Two tower cranes from Linden Comansa are working in the construction of the MahaNakhon tower in Bangkok.

Towering the Demand Curve

What lifting capacity range of TCs will dominate the demand for free standing, external and internal climbing configurations? Say Malik ?The 5-6T capacity TCs will remain as the most dominate category.

New Linden Comansa dealer in Norway

Linden Comansa has signed a new distributor agreement in Norway with rental company Craneway AS. The company has a great experience, since one of its three partners, Jan St?le D?hl, has worked in the field of tower cranes for more than 35 years and knows the Norwegian market very well.

New 21LC335 flat-top crane

Linden Comansa launched its new 21LC335 flat-top tower crane, which is part of the LC2100 series. This new tower crane is the result of the review of the 21LC290, a model that Linden Comansa produced with success since 2002,

Safety in tower crane is of paramount importance

We have major projects of the World Tower, The Park and Trump in Worli, Mumbai, New Caffe Parade in Wadala, Mumbai and Palava 2 near Dombivli, Thane district where we use various types and capacities of tower cranes.

21LC335 Flat-top Crane from Linden Comansa

Comansa Jie to introduce new tower crane at Bauma China

Tower crane manufacturer Comansa Jie, subsidiary of Linden Comansa in China, will unveil a brand new tower crane at the upcoming Bauma China, to be held in Shanghai from 25 to 28 November 2014.

Comansa Jie to unveil new tower crane at Bauma China

Comansa Jie, subsidiary of Linden Comansa in China, will unveil a brand new tower crane at the upcoming Bauma China,

Comansa Jie tower crane at HK hotel site

Teamfield Building Contractors is doing the extension works of the luxury hotel 'The Royal Garden' in Hong Kong, which will grow from the current 12 floors to 15 floors by the end of the year.

Comansa crane at US Riverport

For nearly 40 years, a 20-tonne capacity Linden 8000 flat-top tower crane has handled incoming and outgoing freight on the banks of the Tennessee River, where the Ohio and Tennessee rivers meet. The Riverport has 48 total acre of space and 2,300 cumulative feet of river frontage. The port boasts on-site warehouse capacity exceeding 40,000 tonne outside storage yards and adjacent fleeting and switching service. ?Our Linden 8000 was erected in 1977 and served us well over a considerable length of

Linden Comansa showcases products at ConExpo

AT the recently concluded ConExpo, Linden Comansa America?s booth received visitors from top construction companies in the US and Canada, as well as many rental companies in the tower cranes and lifting equipment segment. The interest of the visitors focused on the large cranes from the LC2100 series, such as the 21LC750 and the 21LC660, whose turntable was shown in Las Vegas. Both models feature versions with up to 48 tonne of maximum load and are designed to deliver high performances at any ty

Building the friendship bridge

Five Linden Comansa tower cranes build the Nhat Tan Bridge in Vietnam. The capital of Vietnam, Hanoi, will have a new road connection between the city centre and the Noi Bai International Airport, by the end of 2014.

Linden Comansa cranes in Vietnam

The capital of Vietnam, Hanoi, will, by the end of 2014, have a new road connection between the city centre and the Noi Bai International Airport. The pathway of this new eight-lane road, four for each direction, crosses the Red River. To save its 1,200 m of width, Vietnam's Ministry of Transportation launched a project of a spectacular cable-stayed bridge and approach viaduct of 3.080 m in total length.

New MD at Linde India

Linde India has appointed Moloy Banerjee as Managing Director of the company and a member of its board of directors effective July 2013. Banerjee will succeed Srikumar Menon who stepped down as managing director in July. Menon will continue as Linde Group's managing director

Linden Comansa at bauma Africa

Linden Comansa has closed the first edition of the Bauma Africa tradeshow with a good feeling. "The quality and quantity of the visitors have been better than expected, and we have made many new contacts with African companies and contractors.

Linden Comansa to exhibit at Bauma Africa

Linden Comansa and its South African dealer Tower Crane Services will co-exhibit together at the upcoming Bauma Africa. This tradeshow will take place at Johannesburg's Gallagher Convention Centre from September 18 to 21 and will attract many visitors from the entire continent.

Comansa TCs in Portugal

Energias de Portugal (EDP) has been building the Baixo Sabor hydroelectric plant in the municipality of Torre de Moncorvo, and Linden Comansa's official distributor in Portugal, IBERGRU, has supplied 15 flat-top tower cranes (TCs) with maximum load in a range between 5 and 48 tonne.

Case shows its strength at bauma

Case Construction Equipment had centre stage at this year's bauma exhibition in Munich, showcasing its wide variety of equipment and demonstrating the range of machinery on offer to customers around the world.

Linden Comansa at Moscow

In Moscow's CTT tradeshow, Linden Comansa exhibited a golden 16LC185 tower crane, which not only noted for its extravagant color, but for its advantages and innovations. Included in the LC1600 Series, the 16LC185 brings together Linden Comansa's main advantages:

Responding to customer needs

TMS supplies complete range of genuine spare parts for over 30 brands, complete with manufacturer's warranty.TECHNICAL Mechanical Services (TMS) specialises in the supply of over 30 brands of spare parts for earthmoving machines.

Bauma exceeds Linden Comansa?s expectations

Tower crane manufacturer Linden Comansa closed the bauma trade show surpassing its already high expectations. To such feeling have contributed the sales made during the event.

Linden Comansa at bauma

Spain-based tower crane manufacturer Linden Comansa will display at forthcoming bauma trade show two of its newest products: a 16 LC 260 flat-top tower crane from its LC1600 Series, and an LCL 165 luffing-jib crane.

Linden Comansa, BKL at Bauma 2013

panish tower crane manufacturer Linden Comansa and its official distributor in Germany, BKL Baukran Logistik GmbH, decided to exhibit together at the next Bauma in Munich. Both the companies will exhibit on Linden Comansa?s usual space at the open air area of Bauma: booth F11 1103/4. They will share 592 sq m of exhibiting space, a two storey booth with 240 sq m of total surface and two terraces to welcome special guests and clients.

TIL bags CONCOR?s contract

TlL was recently awarded the prestigious contract of operation and maintenance of five reach stackers of Linde make owned by Container Corporation of India (CONCOR), Chennai. The reach stackers are working at ICDs Tondiarpet and Chennai Harbour. A formal ceremony was organised to inaugurate the CONCOR O&M contract at CONCOR terminals, TNPM & Harbour, Chennai.

Renovating Maracan?

Four Linden Comansa tower cranes are at the renovation site of the legendary Maracan? stadium.If there was a poll about the world?s most famous sport venue among football/soccer fans, or even among general sports fans, very few would name the Jornalista M?rio Filho stadium. But Maracan? would be in first place on that list without any doubt; Maracana is the name by which this stadium at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is popularly known.

Linden Comansa cranes at Brazil

Maracana was built for the FIFA 1950 World Cup, where it hosted both the opening and closing games. For many years, it has been the sports venue with higher capacity, up to 200,000 people, and nowadays is under renovations to host again another FIFA World Cup in 2014, and also the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Olympic Games. The project belongs to EMOP, Empresa de Obras P?blicas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, and Secretary of Works, and is executed by Cons?rcio Maracan? Rio 2014. T

Comansa Jie a hit in Shanghai

This year?s bauma China has been the most successful edition so far for Comansa. Not only the organisers, but most of the exhibitors, are satisfied with the large amount and quality of the visitors that arrived at Shanghai, and Linden Comansa?s Chinese subsidiary Comansa JIE is not an exception. The best example of such success is the large number of orders that received Comansa JIE, to a total amount of $8 million (around ?6 million). Dealers from India, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia

Linden Comansa luffers in Singapore

The year 2015 will see the opening of the new National Art Gallery, Singapore, which will be the region?s biggest museum, at 60,000 sq m in size. Two adjacent buildings at Singapore?s Downtown Core, the City Hall and the former Supreme Court, will be transformed to host a large collection of Southeast Asian art.Takenaka-Singapore Piling Joint Venture has been appointed as the main construction contractor for the works.

Linden Comansa's New Flat Top Tower Crane

Most of the 21 LC 660 flat top crane?s design is based on the successful 21 LC 750 model but it also includes new improvements.

It is our product quality that has won our customers' faith and trust

We are increasing our investment in India and our phase-II expansion is already on. We strive to give inter?national quality to our customers at the best possible price by absorbing additional cost to the extent possible,? says Michael Schmid Lindenmayer, Managing Director, Putzmeister Concrete Machines. 0 - - 24677 14 251 2012-02-15 00:00:00.000 Equipment India Besides our technology quality, customer focus is the USP for our success Anand Sundaresan, Managing Director, Schwing Stetter India.

?Neither our customers nor our competition can deny the contribution made by Schwing Stetter India in the last 12 years to make the concreting equipment economical and affordable; and thereby substantially increasing the usage of these equipment," says Anand Sundaresan, Managing Director, Schwing Stetter India. In a chat with Equipment India, Sundaresan elaborates on the CE market trends and what has made the company a leading player in the concreting equipment segment. Excerpts from the interview.

How do you rate the overall performance of the CE industry and how is Schwing Stetter placed to meet the surging demands for advanced products and services in this evolving scenario?
In the last two decades, the construction equipment industry has made enormous progress and has grown both in size as well as diversity. Liberalisation, government focus on infrastructure developments and also special concessions given by the government on imports of equipment for infrastructure projects, have all helped the construction industry. It was also necessecary because most of these projects were time-bound and the penalties for delay in completion were very heavy. This gave a boost to the construction equipment industry and helped it grow more than 15-20 per cent year on year.

In addition to this, it also attracted many construction equipment manufacturers to set up shop in India either by way of joint ventures, license agreements or a hundred per cent subsidiary. Schwing Stetter India is one such com?pany to set up production facility, approximately 12 years ago, to take advantage of the growing market in India. Schwing Stetter India is a focused long-term player in the concreting segment and is here to stay for a long time.

With a view to participate in the growth and deve?lopment of our country and to participate in the huge market potential, Schwing Stetter India has been continuously increasing its production capacities, after sales network, value-added services etc, besides expanding its product range as per the needs of customers. Schwing Stetter India keeps close contact with customers, and with the valuable inputs received from them, has been intro?ducing various new products in the market. The recently concluded Excon 2011 was an excellent oppor?tunity to meet our existing and new customers and show?case our new products; we launched 19 new products.

How does Schwing Stetter look at ending this fiscal? What sort of topline growth are you looking at in the next five years and where do you see the growth coming from?
There has been a sudden slowdown in the second half of 2011 due to various reasons including high inflation and interest costs. Therefore, the topline growth this fina?ncial year will not be as high as we had originally anti?cipated. However, there will be a growth of about 20 per cent from the previous fiscal year 2010. We expect that this is a temporary setback and anticipate an year-on-year gro?wth of between 20 and 25 per cent in the next five years.

What is your take on some of the major issues the industry faces in today?s context?
Many of the factors have definitely affected the perfor?mance of construction equipment industry. This includes Schwing Stetter. High cost of funding has resulted in lower off-take of equipment, besides increasing input costs. The devaluation of the currency by over 20 per cent has a direct effect of over 7-8 per cent on the material cost since on an average, we always have 35-40 per cent import contents in our products.

Has competition become a major drive for the betterment of industry practices in terms of services provided by OEMs?
All construction equipment are highly service- oriented. Therefore, the customers are looking for more value-added services. In order to survive in this market, improved after-sales services and value-added services are a must. Healthy competition is most welcome. However, we find that sometimes, new entrants compromise too much to gain entry by selling even at below material cost levels, which is not very healthy for the industry.

What are the initiatives by Schwing Stetter towards more affordable and application-oriented product lines?
Cost reduction is a key factor towards which we conti?nuously work, without compromising on the quality of the components in our products. We have many examples where the cost of the equipment manufactured by us today are much lower than it used to cost ten years ago, but with better technology and better service package. This has made our equipment more affordable and has substantially increased our customer base.

Neither our customers nor our competition can deny the contribution made by Schwing Stetter India in the last 12 years, to make the concreting equipment econo?mical and affordable and thereby substantially increase the usage of the equipment.

How do you look at the threat of imports from LCC? What is your take on an initiative for a third-party certification system for import of equipment?
As I said earlier, the construction equipment is highly service-oriented equipment. Unless and until proper after sales service and spare parts back up is available, they cannot be sustained in India on a long-term basis, even though the initial purchase cost of this equipment may be lower.

Secondly, we have also seen that the equipment which come from the low-cost countries, often use inferior qua?lity of components. Therefore, the performance and dura?bility of such products are questionable.

How are exports doing for Schwing Stetter?
Schwing Stetter India was predominantly selling its products only within India and a few neighbouring coun?tries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, too. How?ever, Schwing Stetter India will shortly be supplying equipment to the East Asian countries, which will increase export revenue in the years to come.

Schwing Stetter has registered an enviable growth and to what do you attribute the success?
Besides our technology and focus on quality, our customer focus is the USP for our success. Schwing Stetter has been very lucky to have a committed and dedicated team of employees at all levels who do not compromise on the company?s core values.

Tell us about the impact of the stringent emission norms on OEMs.
The emission norms as per the international standards are bound to come in and every OEM has to be prepared for this. I do not personally look at it as a big threat.

Any more capex on the anvil?
Schwing Stetter India will keep investing on capacity expansion, branch offices, service depots, training centres, etc, as and when necessary. In 2011, we added six branch offices and six service depots. We are also in the process of expanding our production facility and a new factory is under construction. The total outlay between 2011 and 2012 is Rs 80 crore.

Is the growth story sustainable?

It is crystal clear, to reach world-class levels, infrastructure needs a tremendous boost for the next several years; this will augur well for the CE sector where most of the major players continue to upgrade capacity and widen product lines.

Comansa Jie shows tower cranes at Excon

At the Excon 2011, Linden Comansa?s Chinese subsidiary, Comansa Jie, has successfully showed its flat-top tower crane 10CJ140-8T to the national and international visitors, in association with Comansa Jie?s Indian agent, ESCORTS Construction Equipment.

Linden Comansa at Oil Refinery

Petronor, a subsidiary of Spanish oil and gas company Repsol, is almost done with the works at the refinery of Muskiz in Spain. Since 2008, the com?pany is building a fuel oil reduction unit (FRU) plant on its facility,

The Plaster Master

Putzmeister, internationally known as Plaster Master, has made the entire range of internationally acclaimed equipment and machinery at its factory based at Goa. Name any project - construction of high-rise buildings,

We will showcase new trailers and boom placers at Excon.

We will show our most comprehensive product range of concrete pumps at Excon 2011. These are our full range of trailer pumps and our high tech boom placers,says Michael Schmid Lindenmayer, Managing Director, Putzmeister Concrete Machines

LC1600: Muscular and Strong

The new series of modular flat-top tower cranes launched by Linden Comansa sits between the LC1100 and LC2100 families and shares numerous elements with tahem.Linden Comansa keeps aloft its high pace of work in the development of products and, a little while after presenting a new series of luffers

S-valve Technology

The S-valve technology allows pumping with higher concrete pressure to reach higher output at greater heights. At the same time, the wear and tear of an S-valve pump is lower and so the operation costs are considerably lower, writes Michael Schmid ? Lindenmayer.

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