What happens in the US with the crane market, designed to work with extra-heavy cargoes weighing more than 1 thousand tons? What are the modern parameters and scope of such cranes? How does the current industrial policy of the American government affect their relevance? You will find in this article answers to all these questions.
For a long time, the few American companies that produce cranes for work with super heavy loads worked having a kind of “safety margin”: cranes of this kind in the world were only a few and they provided their creators with a consistently high profit.
There will be work
In general, according to experts, companies that manufacture super-powerful cranes have three ways of the future development:
- the development of new, more powerful models of cranes
- installation of additional equipment on already existing models, which will increase the power or length of the cargo carried
- replacement of obsolete models with new ones in the corresponding tonnage category or increasing it.
Nevertheless, even such “trifles” as, for example, the automatic oil level check system, are important. One of the most crucial conditions for product competitiveness is, as you know, not only the ability of jacking up a deck but also its price. Of course, heavy-duty cranes are more expensive for transportation, assembly, disassembly, maintenance, and operation. So what happens on the US heavy-duty crane market? Most industry professionals are confident that, despite the recent “overstocking”, the global prospects for cranes working with super heavy loads are good. There was even the idea that some of the cranes are “ahead of their time” and their best times are yet to come.
The nuclear and chemical industries will also require super-powerful cranes. Incidentally, despite all the bans by the current US authorities, according to the World Association of Atomic Energy Producers, there are currently more than 100 nuclear power plants in the US alone. By 2020, it is planned to build six more, which means that cranes for super heavy goods will be in high demand.