A group of visitors consulting the Vertikal Bauma Guide
A Demonstration of Electroelsa’s ‘No Bolt’ detection system which protects against the dangers of missing bolts in the mast
The company says that it is happy to openly provide its technology and support to any manufacturer/competitor that would like to use it for the sake of wider industry protection and safety.I have seen the system before but rising the platform up to a mast section which is two missing bolts, while the other two are very very loose was an ‘eye opener’. If the company has the demonstration set up at Vertikal Days you must try it
JLG’s two new boom lifts, the 60ft articulated electric EC600AJ for North America and in the foreground….
The new 45ft EC450EJ designed in Italy it has a fresh new design and looks like a winner
On the Hematec stand we came across its a new ‘harness crane’ the MH 35120, from mast boom and mast crane maker Gefas. The product is a variable mobile harness anchor point or sky hook
Marchetti’s all electric Trio city crane – “cute as a button as one crane” man said, “but too expensive thanks to the fancy battery. My customers simply will not pay extra for it.”
Hidromek’s first telehandler, the 4,000KG/18 metre HMK 40-18 TH looked interesting
but far more interesting for me was the machine next to it, a wheeled loader with autonomous operation, with a big eye in place of a cab. The future? We’ll see
.Back to Mastclimbers and hoists Maber dazzled with several new products including a high entrance car
and a new mast climber, the MBP 12-33
The impressive line of up Niftylift booms, including the all electric 65ft HR22SE – the company’s first telescopic, now available with its hydrogen fuel cell power pack. An easy stand to walk onto – a hard one to escape from
see: Straight Nifty arrivesOn the Almac/AlmaCrawler stand – sales director Oana Samoila with her new addition
The Dingli stand with its modular Diesel, Electric and Hybrid booms lifts and a lone MEC scissor lift
And manning the front desk during a quiet period Mec’s new boy, David Baxter
Dingli and Mec together at Bauma (L-R) Gary Crook and Brian MacFarland of Mec, with Peter Cushion of Dingli UK and Pat Witte of Mec
Platform Basket with its new crane lines including Elma
One to watch - Noble Lift, celebrating its 25th anniversary, the stand was modest – but the information/presentation content made up for it
Sales Director Eric Zhu presented the company’s plans including an all new fifth production plant and expansion of its long established aerial lift production plant in Malaysia.
He was joined by Access division technical director Bryan Tang, to unveil plans for a raft of new aerial lift models, including boom lifts and spider lifts. The first two booms are ready for pre-production customer testing
Massimo Grossele of low level platform manufacturer Axolift with a bottle of Nardini’s Mezzo Mezzo, a Rhubarb vermouth/bitters from the company’s home town of Bassano del Grappa- north west of Venice... hopefully he will bring some to Vertikal Days in September
But the star of the stand was the new 71 metre MJE 710, mounted on a 32 tonne Volvo FMX 8x4 tridem chassis
With an outreach of 37 metres with 100kg, 33.7 metres with 280kg or 28.50 metres with the maximum platform capacity of 600kg.
Please register to see all imagesWith a clever new jib
BG Lift’s new 40 tonne - at 3m radius - M4000 spider crane with tower capability and a maxium tip height of 48m at which point it can handle 1.1 tonnes
On the CMC stand one evening the company chef prepared Spaghetti All’Assassina cooked on a very large flat bottomed Pentola
Fantastic! As were his cannoli. It was also a chance to meet several new distributors - of course
Palazzani probably had the best coffee on the show and arguably the warmest welcome
The star of the show though was the two model line of new spider lifts, the 16m TZJ 160 and 18m TZJ 180
CTE’s 18 metre all electric - chassis and top - B-Lift 18EV
Charging from the front for both parts of the machine
The new 1,250 tonne CC 78.1250-1 lattice crawler crane. While based on the Demag CC 6800-1, it appeared to create a good deal of excitement and interest among big crane buyers, with US based Maxim taking the first units
It was also good to see the reappearance of Tadano’s big deck boom lift, with full update. Aimed initially at North America both United and H&A/Herc confirmed orders for the first few units
Finally the company had an impressive new technology display, by its Advanced Technology Research Centre (ATRC
which highlighted innovations such as: Suspended Load Motion Assistance, Surroundings Monitoring and Ground Collapse Prevention)A refreshing point was that on each of the advanced technologies it is working on it had a message “Seeking Collaboration - To further enhance this technology, we are seeking partners specialising in crane mountable ground penetrating detectors”
Jekko’s robotics project in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University along with Kuka and Fundermax
Jekko’s new jib 1000GR with grab mounted on an SPX 650 spider crane can manipulate 1,000kg, with the grab or other attachment rotating 360° continuously, while the jib has 110° of vertical articulation and 90° of side to side rotation
The eight tonne Jekko JC X80 prototype, is a pedestrian controlled mini crawler crane, with the three modes of operation including a tower configuration
The extending tracks eliminate the need for outriggers
On the NMG stand the new Jekko TRX32 truck mounted crane on a 3.5 tonne chassis, with a 3,000kg capacity and a 17.6m tip height with jib installed
The Zoomlion access display was big, including Europe’s highest reaching self-propelled boom lift, the 232ft Zoomlion ZT72J
The all electric 56 metre S56 XR E sold to Swiss company Rohr
With interesting control panel
There was much to see on the Wolffkran stand in particular the ideas and technology on its new Wolff 8095 Compact
Wolff’s clever convertible hook block
On the Maeda stand Wim Le Roy demonstrates the new Maeda MK3053C spider crane
I was impressed with the Ganterud load rotators from Sweden when I first saw them a few years back, but at Bauma it had a new 40 tonne model taking it into a new market
If you are not impressed with the crane itself – the 150 tonne Grove GMK 5150XLe hybrid, the paint job would have dazzled you
Magni Telehandler’s new fork rotator
Socage’s new 35m Raptor 35s spider lift
Stafford Crane’s new 20t STL.257 luffing jib tower crane
Along with its new cab
A large Moog underbridge inspection platform never fails to impress
Liebherr LG 1800-1.0 very impressive in the iron and especially rigged like this
The company’s latest unplugged crawler the 300t LR 1300-2SX
Liebherr’s electric and hybrid corner
But what really caught my eye were some clever benches
Which got plenty of use during the show
And the Cannoli of course
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