08.11.2016

Senior appointments at Terex Cranes

Terex Cranes has appointed Ingo Nöske as director product management for crawler cranes and Ascan Klein as director of competency centre technology platforms.

Nöske will lead the global product management teams for the Demag and Terex crawler cranes and manage the development and execution of product line strategies, working closely with customers to develop products that meet their current and future needs.
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He re-joins the company after four years with Manitowoc, initially as engineering director for crawler cranes, and more recently as global product development director. Prior to that he spent four years with Sennebogen as leader of its construction crane line. He began his crane career with Mannesmann Demag, Zweibrücken in 1997, having joined the company from ITW in a shop floor role.

In 1999 he was promoted to group leader for crawler cranes a job he held for seven years. He was then promoted to chief engineer crawler crane development at what was by then Terex Demag - leaving two years later to join Sennebogen.
Harry Bussmann, group vice president, global engineering, product management and marketing said: “Directing the global Demag and Terex crawler crane product management teams, Nöske will work in close collaboration with our competency centres to adapt global solutions to local market needs. With his previous global product development experience, he is the right person to advance the change for Demag and Terex crawler crane product development.”

Ascan Klein’s role is to drive common approaches for crane equipment software, electronics, hydraulics and load management, where technology commonality throughout the product lines will benefit Terex Cranes’ customers around the world.

Klein is also a Terex Crane re-rejoiner from Manitowoc, having worked with Terex Cranes engineering group until 2011, he is named in numerous patents for innovative crane design. For the past five years or so he was worked with Manitowoc, most recently on new crane control systems.
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Ascan Klein

Terex said: “The Engineering Competency Centres serve as cornerstones to our new and enhanced product engineering, development and management programme. They develop common approaches to technology platforms i.e. crane controls and componentry, which are then leveraged by local engineering teams to address local customer feedback, improve service response time and drive new product development.”

Bussmann added: “Having these Competency Centres will improve our responsiveness to customers by incorporating their feedback into crane design and introducing it to the market in the same manner and more quickly. Dr Klein’s broad and deep engineering experience is exactly what is necessary to successfully lead the development of our new Technology Competency Centre.”