26.10.2006

SAIE a little more

SAIE is so much bigger this year that it is proving a challenge for our editorial team to cover. After the show we will attempt to do it justice, in the meantime a few points and pictures.

Merlo has launched a number of new products, including a new 16 metre Roto with more capacity from a chassis 150mm shorter and 50mm narrower. It says that it believes that enhancing its Roto range in this manner is a more attractive proposition for its customers that looking to build a machine higher than its current top of the line 25 metre.

Socage is displaying a number of new truck and tracked boom models Valerio Rampini, who recently moved to Socage from GSR, is now export manager and keen to increase the company’s share of the European market.

The new owners of Basket, now renamed Platform Basket, while not exhibiting new models, were explaining the plans they have to expand and improve the business concentrating on spider lifts and the current articulating self propelled boom range.

Mister Gru, the Tadano-Faun distributor has started to build the compact Bi –Energy city crane, although this has now been uprated to 25 tonne capacity and will feature a new high speed drive train. The first ten units go into production in the new year.

IPAF held its fourth annual Italian safety conference, with opening remarks from President Andrew Reid.

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Imai has vastly improved its standard mini cranes with the new Jekko range which runs from 1t/m to 10.5t/m

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This new RAM 20 metre sigma style truck-mount, the Gemini 200TJ with 8.5m outreach and 200kg platform capacity, made it to the show....but only just. The company is also displaying a 18.5 metre spider lift

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Hetronic displayed its retrofit remote controller for loader cranes, the installation is all electric and very simple

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The new Benazzato 'Serie 3005 Flat' features an unusual solid galvanised steel octagonal tower, which says the company saves transport space, but admits that the main reason for the radical design was to "make a fashion statement"

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Merlo has developed its tunnel rib erecting device to carry larger fully assembled rib sections into the tunnel and to the placement point, A rolling side arm holds the larger structure steady