Industrial Workhorses
20 May 2021
Stuart Anderson, president of Chortsey Barr Associates discusses business and technical developments in the pick-and-carry mobile crane industry and analyses trends in the fast-growing Italian market.
Almost every European and American mobile crane manufacturer of any note had its beginnings building industrial mobile or ‘yard’ cranes of one variety or another. Time was when there were well in excess of 100 producers.
It will surprise some to know that even today there are around 40 manufacturers of hydraulic telescopic boom pick-and-carry cranes but in contrast with former times, its an industry where the manufacturers are largely-concentrated in just two countries – Italy and the U.S.