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SPOTLIGHT CRANES - TOWER & MOBILE

Comansa the Pioneers of Flat Top

Technology in Tower Cranes

Indian Tower Crane Since Pre cast construction & composite is optimised to offer greater performance.
Industry has witnessed a strutures concept gaining popularity & Recently Indian Tower crane industry has been
cyclic growth in recent acceptance in building construction over the witnessing a paradigm shift towards rental
past years with the total years. These concept has inevitably increased crane rather than to purchase.This shift is largely
attributed to load dynamics especially in
demand for bigger capacity tower Crane
crane market close to in Indian market. Precast methodology has precast construction & composit construction.
yearly 450 Tower cranes the capacity to meet the demand for rising The load dynamics requires cranes with
in pre covid years and is commercial as well as housing space and different capacity which is becoming difficult
inching close to reaching timely handover of the projects as required even for corporate companies to procure
almost same levels in post by RERA.Even the rise in composite building new cranes for new projects which are of
shorter duration. Hence even the corporate
construction trends, the demand for Tower
covid year 2022. These Cranes in higher capacity range has gone companies are resorting to rental option
figures shows the Tower up as heavy prefabricated structure requires firstly because of reduced project timelines &
crane usage returning to bigger capacity cranes to install. projects cost limtations which helps customers
normalacy indicating the In recent trends Indian Tower Crane market to meet the targets with in project budgets.
rise in demand in Indian has witnessed shifts towards bigger capacity Comansa has achieved another milestone
real estate market which Tower cranes with Luffing Jib features specially by launching a new system called Telematics
which enables crane owners to monitor &
in metro cities where in limited space
is the main driving force restrictioons, precast or composite building manage their fletts effectively , hence help
for growth of Tower Cranes construction challenges are to be addressed. them improve safety & productivity of the
Industry in India. Luffing Jib cranes in the capacity range cranes. This sytem has been highly useful for
of 18-24 Tons are in demand to meet the those crane owners who owns larger fleets
construction challenges in restricted spaces of the cranes where real time monitoring of
specially in congested Indian Metro cities. the cranes operatuon is needed, This sytem
Recently Comansa expanded its Luffing Jib enables crane owners to monitor crane data
cranes range by launching new hydraulic on real time basis.
luffing Jib Tower Crane model LCH 300 in Escorts Kubota Limited (Formerly Escorts Limited)
recently held BAUMA at MUNICH, GERMANY have partenered with Comansa, a globally
from 24 Oct to 30 Oct 2022. LCH 300 is renowned Spanish Tower Crane manufacturer
available in various verions embeded/Cross in 2009 who is pioneer in Flat top Tower crane
base & Travelling having capacity range of Technology. Comansa Tower Crane has a
16 Ton with a jib reach of 60 meters. With the very strong presence in India in last few years
introduction of this model, Luffing mechanism where demand for bigger capacity cranes is

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