05.10.2015

Italy alive and kicking at GIS

GIS - Giornate Italiane del Sollevamento - the Italian cranes and access show, proved that the Italian market is coming to life again as more than 6,000 visitors were expected at the Expo Centre in Piacenza over the three days.

Exhibitor numbers have more than doubled since the last event in 2013 with 130 companies participating from the crane, access, industrial port handling and heavy transport industries.

Speaking to a number of exhibitors, there was a general feeling that GIS has now taken the place of SAIE in Bologna for lifting equipment, rather just alternating with it, and the facts would seem to support this that with expressions of interest and bookings for the next event already indicating the need for a second hall according to Mediapoint’s Fabio Potesta, the show owner and organiser. “There has been a huge investment in the show since the first year in 2009”.

The mood was very relaxed and positive, with some new products on display and orders placed for others still in development. Talk of Bauma was also on the lips of most stands, with manufacturers keeping new product details under wraps until next year but already excited about what’s coming.

The following is a brief overview of some of the exhibits:
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The Registration Hall was busy, with 5,906 visitors already registered by the afternoon of day two.

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The team from Mediapoint, the show organiser

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The show was double the size of the last one in 2013

Italian crawler and foundation crane manufacturer MAIT launched two new cranes at the show – The 28 tonne T28 telescopic crawler crane, designed to be transported easily fully assembled and the 90 tonne 90T heavy duty cycle crane.
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Diego Peluso of Mait with the new T28 telescopic crawler

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Diego Peluso of Mait with the new 90t heavy duty cycle crane

Cela unveiled its new 30 metre spider lift, the DT30 Spyder, which uses the boom geometry that it first introduced on its truck mounted models, with a four section lower boom, three section top boom and an articulating jib that can raise to 90 degrees above the horizontal. Cela also used the show to talk about its new co-operation with Brennero Gru which specialises in loader and special build spider cranes.
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Simone Scalabrini, shareholder and export manager Cela and Brennero Gru, a collaboration launched in September with the new 30 metre Cela DT30 Spiderlift.

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A Genie 360 degree telehandler with large integrated work platform

Teupen used the show to launch a new partnership with Oxley Piattaforme Aeree which will handle both new sales and product support for new and existing machines in the country. Teupen also said that it has won the contract to supply around 70 spider lifts for the Haram Mecca project in Saudi Arabia. The order will include models with 12, 18, 30, 36 and 50 metre Leo models.
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Teupen’s Tim Renk with Aiman Ait from Oxley, the manufacturer’s new partner for Italy.

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The deal is done for one of the first Jekko SPK60 (L-R) Carsten Bielefeld and Willi Buchtmann of NordKran with Alberto Franceschini and Diego Tomasella of Jekko.

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The Imer stand no new models, but plans are to unveil several at Bauma next year.

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The Hinowa stand

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A Liebherr Reachstacker

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The Palfinger Platforms stand

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The big Astor stand with its ultra light weight low level platforms

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A scale model of Ground Zero, New York, which took Ennio Moretto two years to create.

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Another part of the model