Italian crane and aerial lift exhibition GIS was held last week in Piacenza. The show has grown beyond all expectations since 2019 and was well attended, with the organisers claiming as many as 18,000 visitors, with 432 exhibitors covering more than 70,000 square metres. However, the event is now becoming too large for the Piacenza exhibition centre, in terms of good exhibition space, parking and hotels.
The show had a great skyline which always makes a good first impression
The show attracted around 400 exhibitors, including aerial lift, cranes, heavy transport, telehandler, port handling and component manufacturers as well as rental companies.
The exhibits included dozens of new products and a good few new manufacturers, especially when it comes to mast climber and hoists, new small to mid-range truck mounted lifts, bigger spider lifts, and new pick & carry cranes. There was far too much to cover in one review - even with more than 100 photographs.
We hope here to simply provide a basic overview and impression of the event, and will follow up with coverage of the new products and producers in future stories and in our magazines.
Simone Scalabrini on the Cela/BG Lift stand
The 40 tonne BGLift M4000 tracked crane
The 25m BGLift M250 with three section jib and gravity basket attachment
The Airo stand
GSR truck mounts on display
The 22m GSR B220PXR Comfort XEV on 3.5t Iveco chassis
Galizia pick & carry cranes - a busy stand
Fabio Vercelli and Martina Previato of Galizia
Aliant Battery with its custom built lithium cells
Almac/AlmaCrawler platforms and new crane
New spider and tracked lift company aLift with 11M H110 A dynamic auto level tracked boom
Walter Aldini (L) and Angelo Arovere of aLift - looking for good dealers
Alimak Tractel
The new four wheel version of AxoLift’s Manulift 200 - the 200-4
The Axolift team (L-R) Eleonora Bernardi, Ernst van Hek and Massimo Grossele
Carl Cooper of UK Valla dealer Hird on the Valla stand with 'sold to Hird' sign on half the cranes
The CMC spider lift stand
CTE’s new 24m Zeta 24 J truck mounted lift
The Zeta 24 J’s long jib
CTE’s new 18m Traccess 180 spider lift
CTE’s Sara Bassetti and Roberto Berritta
The Haulotte stand
The Hinowa stand opposite the JLG stand
Hinowa’s Davide Fracca at the controls
The Electroelsa stand
Electroelsa’s Marco Bernardi (L) and Said Shabana
The Faraone stand
Faresin’s new 17m all electric telehandler
The Fronteq stand with tracked scissor lifts
New mastclimber company Gamma’s 'Mod Golden Bridge' single or double mast climber with Frederico Mastrogiacomo and Michele Tota
Genie GS3369RT manufactured in Italy
The Imer stand
The busy IPAF stand
The black and yellow buffet
The usually busy Easylift stand
On the Easy Lift stand (L-R) Gianluca Pez and Emanuele Sorianini of Easy Lift with Fritz Collé of Collé, Manuela Vender and Sofia Lucchini of Easy Lift
The JMG stand…
..packed with pick & carry cranes
The Klaas stand with truck mounted crane and platform
LGMG had a large spread
The Maber stand
The Magni Telehandlers
Magni booms and scissor lifts from Dingli
The Merlo stand
Moba electronics
The well stocked Valla stand - with mostly new models
On the Valla stand Michael Coffey and Paolo Bulugani
A new transport cover for Valla cranes
The Mouvers stand
Next Hydraulics electric truck and crane
Multitel’s new all-electric 16m MT162 Axon truck mount
A 35m Multitel MX350 Hybrid in the blazing colours of rental company Ottone Noleggi
The Ormig stand
On the Oxley stand the new TB22-9 underbridge inspection platform on a 3.5t chassis
The first production unit of the 58m Palazzani spider lift sold to Tecman
Platform Basket’s all new 54m 54T spider lift
The 54T has an eight section boom and four section jib
Maeda spider cranes and Easy Lift spider lifts
RB Componentes model boom with electronic controls
A presentation featured leading rental companies discussing the current market
The SAEclimber mastclimber stand
Salerno Ponteggi mast climber and hoists
Spierings - first time in Italy with new recruit Ralph Disveld
The Sunward stand with mini crawler cranes and plenty of platforms
The Terex FC 6.24H quick erect tower crane
The TVH parts stand
The Levo stand with Unic spider cranes...
....And Levo's Orion glazing robots
A vintage Ormig pick & carry crane on the Vernazza stand
A new underbridge platform manufacturer Weico and its new Hercules 2.0
It has up to 18.5m horizontal reach at up 10m below deck, up 4.5m barrier clearance at a distance of up to 3m from truck edge
Solid wheels are lowered for stability and drive while working
Zoomlion showed both cranes and aerial work platforms
The Jekko stand with the GIS skyline behind
(L-R)Wim Le Roy of Heli, Jurgen Vater of Kranlyft and Carl Copper of Hird
The Vertimac stand (L-R) Paul Geanta, Ine Wille and Lorenzo Iacopucci
XCMG has a range of platforms alongside its European All Terrains and Rough Terrain cranes
Show organiser Fabio Potesta introduces the annual GIS awards
The winners of the Access awards
The winners of the crane and lifting awards
Some of the massive Cormach articulated cranes
...and a Cormach 50000 E6ASC Plus crane with JMG all electric chassis and running gear
The well stocked Fassi stand
PM cranes has several new models
Another new mastclimber manufacturer Altek its founders are from the tower crane industry
Altek’s father and son team Geremia (L) and Giuseppe Nappo who founded the company 18 months ago with Rossano Ricciardi
Another rapidly growing pick& carry crane maker Delta with the DK 100
(Palfinger had cranes and platforms on display including the
Soltec’s unique four metre/2,000kg telehandler with elevating cab, almost zero turning radius and pressurised cab
Oil & Steel’s new truck mounted lifts
...and spider lift
The Manitou stand
The innovative HiCrane stand
Klubb had two stands, one for its range of Klubb van mounted lifts and one for Isoli
The Isoli truck mounts with senior Klubb management on hand
The Sinoboom stand
with new booms and 10m mast boom
The two of the four new Elma spider cranes and tracked carrier cranes, part of Platform Basket
(ladder hoist alley
The 75m truck mounted Horyong furniture lift on the CEM stand
Socage’s 100m Barbie pink FortSte 100TJJ….
with fancy graphics
70m Bronto S70XR
For the first time Versalift, Movex, France Elevateur....
....Ruthmann and Bluelift were on one long stand
Geda hoists on the Nolves stand
The Hoeflon stand
The Raptors including the new 35m telescopic 35S with three section jib and small articulating jib
The new 21m Raptor 21S with crane attachment on purpose built trailer
The Jekko spider crane range
Locatelli - doing OK
The 25t Marchetti Sherpina telescopic crawler crane
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