Crawler crane hand-over is big deal at INTERMAT

INTERMAT was the venue for the official hand-over of one of the world’s first Kobelco CKE 2500G crawler cranes. Herman Smit, chief operating officer of crane giant Mammoet, came to the show on Friday to meet Kobeloc Crane’s president and chief executive officer Isao Aida for the handover of the 250tonne lattice boom machine. While he was at the show Smit confirmed orders for another 46 cranes of 180 tonnes and 250tonnes capacity.

January 6, 2017 Read time: 1 min

Herman Smit (Left) takes delivery of a new crane from Kobelco president and CEO Isao Aida

RSSINTERMAT was the venue for the official hand-over of one of the world’s first 2200 Kobelco CKE 2500G crawler cranes.

Herman Smit, chief operating officer of crane giant 5115 Mammoet, came to the show on Friday to meet Kobeloc Crane’s president and chief executive officer Isao Aida for the handover of the 250tonne lattice boom machine.

While he was at the show Smit confirmed orders for another 46 cranes of 180 tonne and 250tonne capacity.

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Kobelco’s new crawler cranes make European debut at INTERMAT

Kobelco used INTERMAT for the European introduction of its G series CKE range of crawler cranes –displaying the CKE2500G and the CKE800G, with lifting capacities of 250tonnes and 80tonnes respectively. Both benefit from lower fuel consumption of up to 25% partly attributed to their Stage IIIB engines having an auto idle stop (which cuts the engine if it is idling and automatically re-starts it as soon as a control is touched) and the G Winch that retains its winching speed even if the engine revs are reduce