Tadano lauds Middle East success
Tadano says cranes are thriving in the region’s harsh conditions
The front page of Tadano’s global newspaper is dedicated to the Arabian Gulf, where the Japanese crane manufacturer has significantly grown its sales in the past 18 months.
“Arabian contractors choose Tadano’s resilience for the challenges of the desert” says the headline.
Engineers in Germany, Japan and the Middle East have spent a lot of time and manpower over the years making making continuous improvements to Tadano’s products, reports the paper, “[ensuring] the cranes can survive and thrive in the harsh working conditions of countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates”.
Tadano also announced the sale of the first 20 units of its new GR-800EX rough terrain crane, an RT specially developed for oil and gas work in the Middle East, with a variant also available for O&G applications in North American markets.
Tadano’s distributor in Kuwait, Abulmohsen Abdulaziz Al-Babtain, delivered the batch of cranes to lifting and transport specialist Intergrated Logistics Company, attended by Integrated CEO Saleh Al Huwaidi and Tadano Middle East general manager Arithito Kabasawa. Integrated is one of the
The handover ceremony was attended by Integrated CEO Saleh Al Huwaidi and Tadano Middle East general manager Arithito Kabasawa.
For Integrated, the appeal of the crane is not just in its lifting capacity (80 tonnes at 3m radius) and its 47-metre main boom. It is also the enhanced safety functions, said Al Huwaidi, such as the AML-C load moment system with working area limitation and soft-stop function, and the Hello-Net system that provides remote data logging and machine monitoring over the internet.
Integrated has placed a follow-up order for five more GR-800EX cranes, along with 20 of the 50-tonne GR-500EX and two 60-tonne GT-600EX truck cranes.