Manitowoc Crane Manuals PDF

One of the world's leading manufacturers of lifting equipment is the Manitowoc Company Inc. Hundreds of thousands of cranes manufactured at the factories of this transnational industrial company operate at construction sites in different countries. Another area of the corporation's activity is the production of ice-making machines and refrigeration equipment.

The main division of Manitowoc Company Inc., specializing in the production of cranes, is the Manitowoc Crane Group, headquartered in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA.

Manitowoc Crane Group are enterprises producing tower cranes, crawler cranes with lattice booms, industrial and mobile hydraulic cranes. The company's products are represented by such world-famous brands as Grove, Manitowoc, Potain, National Crane and Shuttlelift.

The merger of Manitowoc, Grove Crane and Potain in 2002 was caused by the desire to present the entire line of crane equipment within one corporation, thereby expanding its presence in this market.

The oldest of the companies in the Manitowoc Crane Group is the American Manitowoc. Its history dates back to 1925, when the first crawler crane with a lattice boom in the USA was produced at the company's plant in Manitowoc.

Since then, the Manitowoc brand has become a kind of symbol of all crawler cranes, and the equipment coming off the company's conveyor belt is traditionally red today.

The company's portfolio includes more than 10 models of crawler cranes with a lattice boom with a lifting capacity from 45 to 2,300 tons. But production is mainly focused on the production of heavy and super-heavy crawler cranes.

The lowest pressure on the base is achieved by using several counterweight options. In addition, it is possible to move the equipment with a load on the hook even on unpaved areas, and the load weight can correspond to the nominal lifting capacity of the crane.

Manitowoc has been among the leaders in the crawler crane market for several decades - both in terms of the quantity and quality of equipment produced, and in terms of innovations in production. For example, the use of fast assembly technology FACT (Fast Alignment Connection Technology) has reduced assembly and disassembly time, the number of people and equipment involved in putting the crane into operation. Among the technical innovations are a telescopic shaft used to drive the tracks and protect the hydraulic system; interchangeability of the right and left tracks; lifting drums that ensure constant cable tension.