Within the past year Liebherr delivered 53 harbour mobile cranes in total. This is the company’s second best result in such product range, only exceeded by the 58 machines delivered during 2004.

In particular an increased demand for cranes of the highest lifting capacity and a maximum available outreach can be recorded. Just 20% each of the ex-works deliveries are covered by harbour mobile cranes of the small and medium-sized range whereas approximately 60% are being taken by the big 

Terex lets its Genie out of the bottle Construction equipment supplier Terex has begun selling its telehandler range under the Genie brand name in the North American market.

The move follows Terex"s announcement in January that it would realign several company operations during the first quarter of 2006.

Eight Genie telehandlers have been made available to North America under the new arrangement and are being produced at the Terex subsidiary"s facilities in Redmond, Washington and at Terex"s Baraga, Michigan location.

Genie 

The deal is done!

Caterpillar and access equipment specialist JLG have completed an agreement to produce and market a full line of Caterpillar telehandlers for both companies" markets.

The deal will see Caterpillar-branded telehandlers incorporated into production at JLG"s operations in Belgium and Pennsylvania, then distributed globally.

Caterpillar will retain responsibility for the B-Series telehandlers and other models manufactured prior to the transition of production to JLG, including warranty 

Manitowoc cranes to build desert plant

United States-based Manitowoc Crane Group, one of the world"s largest providers of lifting equipment for the global construction industry, is helping build a new crushing and screening plant in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the driest places on Earth.

Chilean industrial conglomerate Sigdo Koppers, employed by the main contractor BARA, hired the cranes to help build the new facility for state-owned mining producer Codelco.

The plant will process huge piles of by-product 

Indian crane builder to expand

Indian mobile crane manufacturer Action Construction Equipment plans to develop a greenfield unit in the industrial township of Faridabad, India.

As part of a product portfolio expansion the company will invest the equivalent of $6.7million to establish loaders, build platforms and fix tower cranes there.

ACE director Sorab Agarwal told Indian newspaper the Economic Times that with operations already in the Middle East and African markets, ACE expects Asian exports of loaders