(L-R) Fabio Potesta of GIS, Patrizia Barbieri, Mayor of Piacenza, and Giuseppe Cavalli of Piacenza Expo
Socage design engineer Simone Compagnoni with the prototype of the company's first Rough Terrain crane, the 45 tonne Optimus 450
Zoomlion's first crane produced in Italy, the three axle 60 tonne ATC960 prototype
Comet's new 16 metre 16.75 HQ truck mounted platform, providing 7.5 metres of outreach
Gabrielle Valli at work on the Comet stand
Tadano and Demag stand side by side
Two Tadanos and a Demag
CTE's new 20m Zed 20 with 'H' outriggers with 25m Zed 25 behind
The new CTE Zed 20 features fixed 'H' type narrow width outriggers
The show includes more than 400 exhibitors
Pierino Bravi demonstrates the Sprint TL Tyre Lift, which is now in production
The Airo stand
Airo launched its new A18 JRTD Xtreme articulated boom lift
The JMG stand
The 50,000 t/m JMG 50000RE - a Cormach 7F134 ASC heavy duty articulated crane on an electric powered JMG industrial chassis, for machinery installation work
The Jekko MPK 06 glass handling robot/lifter
Palazzani's 37 metre XTJ 37+ spider lift
A Palazzani 2000 glass handling robot/lifter
A selection of telehandlers
The always impressive Liebherr stand
The Genie stand focused on its new XC models - that is a CTE spider in front
The JLG stand had a wide selection of its product range
The Dalbe tower crane stand
The tracked base of the Palfinger PCC 115.002 articulated spider crane
The Palfinger PCC 115.002 crane
Sennebogen focused on its tele crawlers
The Multitel Stand
The Multitel MJ450 sold to Bettarini
Grove GRT655L Rough Terrain crane
Haulotte attending a regional show - with its new Pulseo booms
Taking a little time out on the stand of fork lift specialist Heli Italia
The Socage stand was a popular destination
A six tonne Ormig model 55 from 1980 loaned from the Vernazza fleet to celebrate 70 years of Ormig
Both cranes and access equipment were in abundance
Italian rental company Cofiloc showed hoists and aerial lifts
The Imer stand with its full range of scissor lifts
Platform Basket
The new Almac 990kg tracked self levelling carry deck crane - Multi-loader 6.0
Genius showed its pedestrian tunnels and low level lifts
Socage 164 pick up mounted platform
There was also a military presence at the show
The Omar Crane stand
A 1982 scooter-truck mounted Ippis di D.Giora 11m fire ladder, initially used for street light maintenance
The Easy Gemini 720 truck mounted double electric scissor lift
Willem Hilderink of IPAF smiling as always
The PowerPicker from Power Towers on the JLG stand
Simone Scallabrini of BG Lift/Cela (L) with Johan van Der Sanden of dealer Sankoo
Cela platforms on display
A busy TVH stand
Amanda Long (L) and Christina Lanham from ITI virtual reality simulations
The Fiat Ballila was owned by Ermete Vernazza, the company founder of Autogru,
Lodax launched a number of new products at GIS including its Bridgemat and Incline Pads
Angelo Cosmos and Valentina Chiarotto of Terex Cranes
Vermitac's stand
The Sinoboom's stand
The Magni / Dingli stand
CMC focused on the new 23 metre S23 spider lift with 12.4 metres of unrestricted outreach
Bronto's 56 metre truck mounted platform
Merlo stand stacked with telehandlers
Dante Fracca of Hinowa and Ebbe Christiansen of Reachmaster having a catch up in front of the Ormig stand
Cela DT30 spider lift with new Euro 5 Hatz diesel and fully integrated DPF filter
A Valla crane sold to a customer in Finland
GSR truck mounted platform
A big Omas wrecker truck
The Hinowa team happy as ever
The Mantall stand
Terex Rough Terrain cranes
Paul Brown (L) back in action on the Tadano stand
XCMG's stand its new dealer HItex
Palfinger's 103 metre truck mounted platform got plenty of attention
The 70 metre truck mounted Horyong PE700 furniture lift sold by CEM Elevatori to Russo Traslochi
The machine will lift up to 400kg to a height of 70 metres
A choir and small orchestra provided a stunning setting int a Piacenza square for the pre award dinner entertainment
The Italian Lifting & Transportation awards dinner
Three gala dinners were held, one each night this one being the crane and heavy transport award dinner
The GIS organising team take a well deserved bow
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