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Essex Crane Rental Corp, one of the world’s largest owners of lattice boom crawler cranes, has bought an undisclosed number of Liebherr crawler cranes. The deal follows Essex’s 2003 order with Liebherr-Nenzing for a customised variant of the duty cycle model HS 855 renamed the HS 855SX. The success of these duty cycle units is said to have paved the way for the latest purchase of more mainstream lift crane machines from Liebherr.

The crawler cranes include the LR 1100 a 115t lift crane and a customised variant of the Liebherr model LR 1200. The rating-modified LR 1200 will be marketed as the LR 1200SX. Essex said: “The LR 1200SX provides excellent lifting capability particularly with long boom and luffing jib configurations. Other outstanding crane features of both the LR 1100 and the LR 1200SX include mobility, high performance, dependability, and speed.”

Ron Schad, president and CEO of Essex Crane Rental Corp., said: “Essex prides itself as the crawler crane experts, and Liebherr has passed the Essex test for dependability and serviceability. Our management team has more expertise in this type of equipment than anyone. We closely monitored the performance of our Liebherr HS 855SX’s and were impressed with their performance”. Scott Moreland, vice president of US sales for Liebherr-Nenzing, added: “Essex’s relationships with crawler crane end users give Liebherr an incredible market opportunity. The feedback provided by Essex enhanced our product development process on the LR 1200. Their design input provides priceless benefits for us, and our customers.”

Gernot Schranz, vice president of Liebherr-Nenzing Crane Company, said: “A follow-up order from Essex makes a fantastic statement regarding the quality and value of Liebherr- Nenzing crawler cranes. The Essex team is synonymous with crawler cranes; they know them as well as anyone”. Essex Crane Rental Corp has more than 420 cranes and attachments in its fleet.

Source: Cranes Today

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US crane rental major, AmQuip Corporation, has announced an investment of US$60 million to expand its tower crane fleet. AmQuip, one of the largest crane rental companies in the US, has divided the sum between Peiner (Terex) and Potain (Manitowoc Crane Group), to be spent over a period of years. Philadelphia-based AmQuip will add the latest tower crane technology to its large fleet of crawler cranes and all types of mobile hydraulic equipment. The expansion will make AmQuip one of the largest tower crane rental houses with the youngest fleet in the US.

Commenting on the move AmQuip CEO Joseph Wesley said: “ We’re always among the first to innovate in the crane industry, whether it be taking newly-launched machines or trying out new technology. By doing so we’re able to offer quicker, safer and more cost-efficient lifting solutions to our customers. We’ll be bringing this philosophy to our tower crane division, which we believe will give us a competitive advantage.” For Terex-Peiner the contract, valued at $ 30 million over the next two years, includes the supply of top slewing tower models SK 315, SK 415, and the strongest in the range, the SK 575, which a maximum capacity of 70600 pounds (32 tonnes) and a maximum free standing hook height of 249 feet (76 m).

David Birkhauser, senior VP North American sales at Manitowoc Crane Group said he was delighted AmQuip has chosen Potain as a partner for the expansion of its tower crane fleet. In a similar vein, Steve Filipov, president and CEO of Terex Cranes commented, “We are extremely pleased AmQuip has chosen Terex Towers to continue their tower expansion in North America. This is a substantial order for us.”

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