NEWS
8
ACT
DECEMBER 2013
HIGHLIGHTS
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Kalyn Siebert has partnered
with De Lage Landen Financial
Services to offer financing to its
customers. The company wlll
provide rental fleet and end-
user financing solutions.
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Crane Swap, a new global
online trading portal for cranes
and construction equipment,
was launched in October 2013.
Available at
com, the site connects buyers
and sellers from around the
world.
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The Caldwell Group and
J.C. Renfroe have merged,
creating a combined company
that will offer a wider range
of lifting solutions. Caldwell
manufactures below-the-hook
lifting equipment while Renfroe
produces plate clamp lifting
equipment. Together, they
represent a number of well-
recognized brands and years
of experience in the lifting
industry. Caldwell, based in
Rockford, IL, is an employee-
owned company. J.C. Renfroe,
based in Jacksonville, FL, will
continue to operate as an
independently under the J.C.
Renfroe name and will also
become an employee-owned
company.
Counterfeit cranes
a concern for Terex
for Terex Cranes. “This is a
serious situation, and not only
because this infringes on our
intellectual property, but more
importantly, it poses a serious
safety risk for our customers.
The use of these inferior,
counterfeit cranes can result in
deadly consequences.”
The pirated cranes are often
assembled with a blend of
older and newer technology
and components that were not
designed to work together,
Terex said.
“These counterfeit cranes
frequently exhibit poor
weld quality, inferior steel
structures and improperly
fitted tracks,” the company
said. “Additionally, many of the
safety components designed
into a genuine Terex crane are
missing.”
Terex stressed the
importance of conducting
thorough inspections of used
cranes by a qualified individual
prior to purchasing a machine.
The safety of workers and
people in the area where the
crane is operating depends on
it, the company said.
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For more information or
inquiries email terexcranes.
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Terex Cranes has begun
tracking reports of counterfeit
Terex crawler cranes from
China. In 2011, Terex
discovered counterfeit cranes
in the market. The Terex CC
2500-1 lattice boom crawler
crane is the latest crane model
of choice for the copycat
manufacturers.
The units are assembled,
branded and sold as used Terex
cranes “well under market
value,” the company said. Also,
most of the counterfeit crane
models reported were painted
red and use the manufacturer’s
legacy Demag brand. The
primary markets of concern
in the most recent wave of
crane pirating are the Asian
countries of China, South
Korea, Singapore, India and
Pakistan.
“We are aware of three
different ‘designs’ of the CC
2500-1 crane on the market,
and there are at least nine or
10 fake cranes that have been
sold, all originating from
China,” said Klaus Meissner,
director of product integrity
Terex has been investigating reports of counterfeit crawler cranes,
specifically the CC2500 model.
Mammoet expands, moves six
coke drums for California refinery
Mammoet recently moved six coke drums on self-propelled modular transporters (SPMT) for the Chevron
El Segundo Refinery.
At the start of the project the drums were moved 7,330 miles from Spain to the Port of Los Angeles.
Each coke drum weighed 275 tons (250 metric tons) and measured 98 feet long (30 meters) and 27 feet
(8.5 meters) wide.
After arriving in Los Angeles, the drums were transported to the Redondo King Harbor Marina by barge
two at a time. On arrival at King Harbor, the drums
were loaded onto 12 axle lines of Scheuerle SPMT,
before being transported to Herondo Street, on the
West Pacific Coast Highway near the El Segundo
Refinery.
The new coke drums will be used to replace existing
drums at the refinery.
Mammoet recently signed a deal for 650 axle lines
of SPMT from Scheuerle, bringing the total number
of axle lines in Mammoet’s fleet to more than 3,000.
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See
ACT’s
Product Focus: SPMTs on page 33 for
more information.
