Crawler cranes are equipment of choice in metro projects

Looking at the market during the period April-December 2016, there is a constant increase in the activity whether it is shipment of cranes or order intake. In general, it is a positive trend. Infrastructure is expanding rapidly in the country. Currently, we see demand in the metro projects in Lucknow, Nagpur etc, where crawler cranes are the equipment of choice. Much of the growth is coming from metros and highways.

UK contractor buys 6 Kobelco G2 cranes

The UK-based civil engineering contractor Ward and Burke, which works in the waste, sewage and water management sector, has bought six new Kobelco cranes, including two CKE1350G-2s and four CKE900G-2s.

Kobelco to merge Cranes and Construction

Kobelco Construction Machinery and Kobelco Cranes have announced the decision to merge the businesses at the start of April 2016. The combined business will have revenues in the region of 400 billion yen ($3.3 billion).

The best sales manager

A BE Mechanical Engineer with a total experience of over 15 years in construction equipment industry, Nilesh Borkar is the National Manager - Cranes in Kobelco Cranes India. Borkar started his carrier with Sanghvi Movers as a marketing engineer for rental of cranes and continued for 5 years

Crane Owners Association Meet

The announcement of new office bearers, unveiling new website of the association and felicitation of Ashwin Gandhi were the highlights of the third AGM. The third Annual General Meeting (AGM)of the Crane Owners Association of India (COAOI) was held on September 30, 2015 in Mumbai. The meeting started with the minutes of the last year?s Annual General Meeting and a recap of the major activities during the year.

Heavy Lift Anablers

India has witnessed an influx of new software-assisted multiple application-specific boom configured heavy lifters. Despite the economic slowdown taking the wind out of the sail for the heavy lift cranes? suppliers

Kobelco Cranes rolls out 100th machine from Indian unit

Celebrating fourth year of operations, the Kobelco Cranes India?s manufacturing facility in Sri City has rolled out its 100th machine in August 2014.

Kobelco Cranes signs MoU

Kobelco Cranes India, the Indian arm of the Japanese crane manufacturer Kobelco Cranes, signed a memorandum of understanding for expanding the existing production unit at Sri City.

Kobelco Cranes signs MoU

Kobelco Cranes India, the Indian arm of the Japanese crane manufacturer Kobelco Cranes signed a memorandum of understanding for expanding the existing production unit at Sri City.

Kobelco Cranes rolls out 100th machine from Indian unit

Celebrating fourth year of operations, the Kobelco Cranes Indias manufacturing facility in Sri City has rolled out its 100th machine in August 2014. Kobelco established Indian

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Crawling Now, To Pick Up Soon?

Despite the muted demand due to lack of new projects in the power sector, the crawler cranes segment is expected to register good growth once the new projects are taken up after the general elections, writes Sudheer Vathiyath.India is a huge market for crawler cranes, especially higher capacity crawlers. This is mainly due to increasing demand in thermal power sector, nuclear power sector, steel plants, refinery expansions and wind power sector. However, the market has slowed down in the last tw

At Kobelco, we have set high standards for service.

Takeshi Miyashita, Director - Sales & Marketing, Kobelco: At Kobelco Cranes, safety is a major focus not only in the design stage but also throughout the lifecycle of cranes. Takeshi Miyashita, Director - Sales & Marketing, Kobelco, says that his company does not have a dealer-based business model and their engineers diectly service the customers.

Kobelco Cranes sales up

Revenues for Kobelco Cranes were up 22 per cent to JPY 39.8 billion ($393 million) in the first nine months (Q1-3) of this fiscal year, compared to JPY 32.7 billion ($323 million) for Q1-3 of fiscal 2012. Ordinary income for the first nine months of the year stood at JPY 2.5 billion ($25 million), compared to a loss of JPY 1.2 billion ($12 million) a year ago. The company said this rise in sales was due to buoyancy in its domestic market and elsewhere in Asia, which offset weakness in Europe.

Chinese slowdown hits Kobelco

Kobelco?s sales of construction equipment totalled Japan Yen 89.6 billion ($1.15 billion) in the first quarter of the fiscal year, a -18 per cent decline on the same period last year.

Kobelco Cranes at Sri City

The Japanese major Kobelco Hydraulic Crawler Cranes commenced commercial production at Sri City, south India?s largest private-sector Special Economic Zone (SEZ) spread over 7,000 acres. Kobelco Cranes is the second Japanese investment at Sri City after Kobelco Construction.