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12.10.2023

GIS in pictures

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.
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The show had a great skyline which always makes a good first impression


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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.
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Simone Scalabrini on the Cela/BG Lift stand


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The 40 tonne BGLift M4000 tracked crane


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The 25m BGLift M250 with three section jib and gravity basket attachment


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The Airo stand


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GSR truck mounts on display


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The 22m GSR B220PXR Comfort XEV on 3.5t Iveco chassis


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Galizia pick & carry cranes - a busy stand


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Fabio Vercelli and Martina Previato of Galizia


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Aliant Battery with its custom built lithium cells


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Almac/AlmaCrawler platforms and new crane


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New spider and tracked lift company aLift with 11M H110 A dynamic auto level tracked boom


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Walter Aldini (L) and Angelo Arovere of aLift - looking for good dealers


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Alimak Tractel


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The new four wheel version of AxoLift’s Manulift 200 - the 200-4


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The Axolift team (L-R) Eleonora Bernardi, Ernst van Hek and Massimo Grossele


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Carl Cooper of UK Valla dealer Hird on the Valla stand with 'sold to Hird' sign on half the cranes


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The CMC spider lift stand


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CTE’s new 24m Zeta 24 J truck mounted lift


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The Zeta 24 J’s long jib


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CTE’s new 18m Traccess 180 spider lift


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CTE’s Sara Bassetti and Roberto Berritta


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The Haulotte stand


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The Hinowa stand opposite the JLG stand


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Hinowa’s Davide Fracca at the controls


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The Electroelsa stand


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Electroelsa’s Marco Bernardi (L) and Said Shabana


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The Faraone stand


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Faresin’s new 17m all electric telehandler


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The Fronteq stand with tracked scissor lifts


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New mastclimber company Gamma’s 'Mod Golden Bridge' single or double mast climber with Frederico Mastrogiacomo and Michele Tota


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Genie GS3369RT manufactured in Italy


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The Imer stand


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The busy IPAF stand


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The black and yellow buffet


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The usually busy Easylift stand


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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


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The JMG stand…


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..packed with pick & carry cranes


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The Klaas stand with truck mounted crane and platform


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LGMG had a large spread


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The Maber stand


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The Magni Telehandlers


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Magni booms and scissor lifts from Dingli


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The Merlo stand


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Moba electronics


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The well stocked Valla stand - with mostly new models


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On the Valla stand Michael Coffey and Paolo Bulugani


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A new transport cover for Valla cranes


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The Mouvers stand


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Next Hydraulics electric truck and crane


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Multitel’s new all-electric 16m MT162 Axon truck mount


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A 35m Multitel MX350 Hybrid in the blazing colours of rental company Ottone Noleggi


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The Ormig stand


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On the Oxley stand the new TB22-9 underbridge inspection platform on a 3.5t chassis


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The first production unit of the 58m Palazzani spider lift sold to Tecman


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Platform Basket’s all new 54m 54T spider lift


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The 54T has an eight section boom and four section jib


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Maeda spider cranes and Easy Lift spider lifts


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RB Componentes model boom with electronic controls


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A presentation featured leading rental companies discussing the current market


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The SAEclimber mastclimber stand


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Salerno Ponteggi mast climber and hoists


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Spierings - first time in Italy with new recruit Ralph Disveld


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The Sunward stand with mini crawler cranes and plenty of platforms


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The Terex FC 6.24H quick erect tower crane


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The TVH parts stand


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The Levo stand with Unic spider cranes...


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....And Levo's Orion glazing robots


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A vintage Ormig pick & carry crane on the Vernazza stand


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A new underbridge platform manufacturer Weico and its new Hercules 2.0


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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


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Solid wheels are lowered for stability and drive while working


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Zoomlion showed both cranes and aerial work platforms


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The Jekko stand with the GIS skyline behind


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(L-R)Wim Le Roy of Heli, Jurgen Vater of Kranlyft and Carl Copper of Hird


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The Vertimac stand (L-R) Paul Geanta, Ine Wille and Lorenzo Iacopucci


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XCMG has a range of platforms alongside its European All Terrains and Rough Terrain cranes


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Show organiser Fabio Potesta introduces the annual GIS awards


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The winners of the Access awards


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The winners of the crane and lifting awards


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Some of the massive Cormach articulated cranes


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...and a Cormach 50000 E6ASC Plus crane with JMG all electric chassis and running gear


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The well stocked Fassi stand


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PM cranes has several new models


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Another new mastclimber manufacturer Altek its founders are from the tower crane industry


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Altek’s father and son team Geremia (L) and Giuseppe Nappo who founded the company 18 months ago with Rossano Ricciardi


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Another rapidly growing pick& carry crane maker Delta with the DK 100


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(Palfinger had cranes and platforms on display including the
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Soltec’s unique four metre/2,000kg telehandler with elevating cab, almost zero turning radius and pressurised cab


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Oil & Steel’s new truck mounted lifts


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...and spider lift


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The Manitou stand


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The innovative HiCrane stand


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Klubb had two stands, one for its range of Klubb van mounted lifts and one for Isoli


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The Isoli truck mounts with senior Klubb management on hand


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The Sinoboom stand


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with new booms and 10m mast boom


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The two of the four new Elma spider cranes and tracked carrier cranes, part of Platform Basket


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(ladder hoist alley


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The 75m truck mounted Horyong furniture lift on the CEM stand


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Socage’s 100m Barbie pink FortSte 100TJJ….


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with fancy graphics


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70m Bronto S70XR


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For the first time Versalift, Movex, France Elevateur....


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....Ruthmann and Bluelift were on one long stand


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Geda hoists on the Nolves stand


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The Hoeflon stand


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The Raptors including the new 35m telescopic 35S with three section jib and small articulating jib


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The new 21m Raptor 21S with crane attachment on purpose built trailer


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The Jekko spider crane range


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Locatelli - doing OK


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The 25t Marchetti Sherpina telescopic crawler crane


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The Grove/Manitowoc stand


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The model shop


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Including trucks


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Terex and Liebherr cranes


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The Liebherr stand


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