The design behind the brand new Demag^® AC 450‑7 all terrain crane had won Thomas Wiesbauer over right away – so much so, in fact, that he wanted to have the very first unit of the model without fail. Ensuring that no one would be able to get ahead of him, he signed a “letter of intent” on a napkin all the way back in September 2019. Then, on May 27 of this year, he executed the official purchase agreement.

Lifting the 138-tonne pressure vessel in a tandem lift with a Demag^® AC 500-2 and a Tadano^® ATF 400G-6 definitely had symbolic significance – after all, both manufacturers have been under the same corporate umbrella as part of the Tadano Group for roughly one and a half years now.

Any company that orders three new cranes of the same model must know that the product’s quality is outstanding: “And that’s the case with the Demag AC 55-3.

Setting new standards on seven axles – certainly not a humble goal for the engineers at Tadano Demag when they started their work on the new AC 450-7 all terrain crane. And this work was richly rewarded, as their goal was fully met and the crane manufacturer from Zweibrücken now offers a new seven-axle machine that makes a compelling case with a series of forward-looking solutions and impressive technical specifications.

On behalf of customer Enercon, crane service provider Sarens was scheduled to erect two wind turbines at the Bouwdokken wind farm close to the Dutch North Sea village of Vrouwenpolder.

The Maxikraft Group was able to take delivery of three brand new AC 45 City cranes all at once in mid-September at the Demag Zweibrücken plant: Two of the cranes are for Munich-based Treffler Autokrane, while the third is intended for Maximum GmbH in Erfurt.

Despite being ten years old already, this Demag^® CC 2800-1 is far from retiring, and it proved this beyond all doubt during a lift at the Port of Magdeburg: At Magdeburger Getreide GmbH’s site next to the Midland Canal, a team from Freudenburg-based Spedition Bender GmbH used the CC 2800-1 for its first company assignment – loading two 93-tonne slag pot carriers onto a barge.

Belgian crane service provider Dufour has expanded its “Demag-dominated” 5-axle fleet with additional cranes from Zweibrücken: Around three quarters of the cranes in the fleet already bear the Demag logo, and they have now been joined by three brand new AC 250-5 units. “Above all, we value the high quality and reliability of the 5-axle machines from Zweibrücken,” says administrator Olivier Dufour while explaining his company’s predilection for the manufacturer.

W.O. Grubb Crane Rental, Richmond, Virginia, has operated its Demag^® AC 500-8 all terrain crane for nearly two years. In that time, Craig Hunt, branch manager for W.O. Grubb, has used the crane in just about every imaginable application.

UK based rental company PP Engineering Crane Hire has taken delivery of a Demag AC 45 City crane. The Yorkshire based company has now increased their Tadano groups fleet to 13 machines.