ACT
TOWER
CRANE
50
morrow.com
Liebherr 1800 C
1,500
519
180,584
amquip.com
Potain MD 615
615
86
44,239
allcrane.com
Potain MR 605 B
605
90
29,350
essex.com
Potain MD 560A
40
109
21,022
maximcrane.com
Comedil CTL 630-32
32
78
17,360
oxfordbuilders.ca
Comedil CTL 630
640
29
12,079
jflommainc.com
Favco 1280
100
58
10,000
allegiancecrane.com
Comedil CTL 630-32
630
24
10,090
lindencomansaamerica.com
Linden Comansa 30 LC 1450
64
26
7,200
rmscranes.com
Potain MD 480
480
17
5,600
towercranes.net
Terex Peiner SK 415
415
25
5,541
unitedcraneandrigging.com
Linden Comansa 21LC-290
20
15
5,508
dielcocrane.com
Potain MD 560-M40
40
40
4,785
eaglewestcranes.com
San Marco SMT 551
90.8
50
3,437
jaydeecontr.com
Kroll K1800
1,800
1
1,800
cranerental.com
Peiner SK 415 (Manitowoc 18000)
25
9
1,655
compassequipment.com
Comansa 21LC550
550
18
1,105
bigge.com
Comedil CTL630
32
35
878
gruesguay.com
Terex Peiner SK 315
20
28
403
jcrane.net
San Marco SMT 552
73
7
320
auriga.com.mx
Potain MC I 85A
5
2
200
walshgroup.com
Potain MR 415
24
9
163
connellycrane.com
Peiner SK415
20
3
30
Market outlook
According to Bates, the market has picked
up in the last two years. “To get our
economy back into a healthy situation, we
do need to get residential starts back above
non-residential growth numbers,” he said.
“Government-funded projects dropped
off in 2012 as commercial projects saw a
notable increase. There’s a lot of money
sitting on the sidelines waiting to start
projects.”
Bates said across the board utilization is
trending up.
For Essex Crane Rental, our fourth-
placed company on the
TC
50
, utilization
of larger tower cranes and elevator lifts
increased to 56 percent for the fourth
quarter of 2012 from 54.7 percent and
37.3 percent for the third quarter of
2012 and the fourth quarter of 2011,
respectively.
“Utilization across many of our
remaining asset categories increased on
both a quarter over quarter basis and
on a sequential quarter basis,” said Ron
Schad, Essex president and CEO. “The
improvement on a sequential quarter
basis is particularly encouraging as our
fourth quarter has historically been a soft
seasonal period. While our results are
encouraging, I believe that we are still
in the very early stages of what will be a
gradual recovery for rental rates.”
While rental rates and utilization slowly
climb upward, it definitely is a mixed
bag for the market as our
TC
50
reflects
slightly smaller fleets, but an industry
poised for growth.
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LARGEST TOWER
LARGEST TOWER CRANE
NUMBER OF
ACT TOWER
WEBSITE
CRANE IN FLEET
APPROX. CAPACITY (T/M)
TOWERS IN FLEET
CRANE INDEX
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ACT
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some instances, we have estimated the
ACT
Index of certain companies on our list due to
incomplete information or inconsistent data submitted.
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