Development status analysis of global crane industry

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The global crane industry analysis

International crane manufacturing industry has a history of hundreds of years,the main producing countries includes Germany, China, the United States, Japan, France, Italy, etc. Top companies in the world have more than 10, and the world market is mainly concentrated in North American, Asia, and Europe.
10-year revenue trend of the global crane industry
10 years revenue trend of global crane industry
Because it is difficult to collect the global crane market data, we provide the data as of 2011.

Europe crane industry has the most advanced technology

As the birthplace of cranes, Europe has the most advanced technology of wheel crane production. The most famous enterprises include Liebherr, Demag, Grove, Potain, etc.

The USA plays an important role in the internal crane industry

The United States is not only the main country of crane production, but also one of the largest crane markets in the world, the market demand for more than sixty billion dollars a year. The main production enterprise is Manitowoc, it is famous for its advanced technology, excellent performance, and high reliability, its products are mainly exported to the USA, and the Asian-Pacific region. Manitowoc truss boom crawler crane, Potain tower crane, and Grove hydraulic mobile crane are manufactured, sold in many places of the world’s five continents, as well as the sporting service.  

Japan crane industry analysis

Japan has become a main country of crane production since 1970s, its products is manufactured by the most advanced technology, the performance and reliability is just after Europe and the United States, and 40% of its products are used for exporting to Europe and the United States market. Japan has become one of the major countries of crane production in the international, its famous enterprises include KATO, KOBELCO, Komatsu, etc.

China gets eye-catching performance in the global crane industry

Since 1980s, China began to digest foreign technology, on the basis of fully absorbing foreign advanced machinery manufacturing technology, and has achieved the technology to product our own domestic heavy machinery products and key components, becoming the mainstream of technology development.   

After decades of development, Chinese crane machinery enterprises already have the ability to carry out independent innovation of the existing technology, and develop personalized products that meet the needs of the domestic and international markets. Until now, China's crane industry product category has more than 1000, and is constantly having new crane equipments. At present, China's lifting equipment manufacturing enterprises up to more than 3,500, 1898 of the enterprises have the installation and demolition permit, they have more advanced manufacturing capabilities. During the'12th Five-Year’ Plan period, industrial production and sales revenue of crane products increased by 30% per year, the industry operating condition is better.

In recent years, the domestic crane cut a striking figure in the international market, leading enterprises lead the industry to upgrade, and achieved a technological breakthrough. Reviewing the background, from 2000 to 2005, the global crane industry is in a high growth period of 25% per year, among them, China has contributed the largest incremental, truck crane sales have increased several times over, and have exceeded 10,000 in 2003. After the United States produced 7,500 in the mid-1970s, and Japan produced 8,000 in 1980, China has become the world largest crane producer. During this period, the main enterprises have achieved two breakthroughs, one is that scale capacity exceeded 10,000; the other one is that the technology has been innovated to meet the crane needs (the capacity is required under 100 tons), tackled the core technology of terrain crane, formed a Chinese technology covering from the lowest end to the highest end, this is especially critical, because it established the unique cost performance of the Chinese crane.

From 2005 to 2010, macro environment presents important changes: many countries increase investment in infrastructure, energy and other construction projects promoted the large-scale lifting process technology innovation. During this period, mainstream enterprises achieved three major breakthroughs: firstly, globalization process has accelerated; in addition, the structure and category of crane products are further subdivided, the span covers from 5 tons to 2,000tons, truck mounted crane, terrain crane, crawler crane and rough – terrain tyre crane have been developed; finally, large-scale crane became the trend. China’s largest tonnage history of 200 tons crane was broken, the global crane industry completed the leaps from hundreds to thousands tons.
From 2010 to 2013, the macroeconomic environment has been tightened, but the supply capacity increased by nearly two times, mainstream companies not only have to deal with the pressure of competition, but also have to seize the structural changes in the region to achieve the second  international take-off on the strategic layout, and seize the super large tonnage to the high point quickly in product and technical layout. Chinese enterprises have showed the advantages once again, “the most in the world” is or is about to be born one by one, and a new generation of technological revolution, which adopts the theme of promoting the use value of users, is emerging.
5-year growth of Chinese crane industry
china crane industry growth rates

Ansoncranes cuts a striking figure in the global crane industry

In recent years, with the development of basic industries and construction in China, the energy, real estate, petrochemical industry, warehousing logistics, shipbuilding industry, metallurgy industry, machinery processing, aviation industry and container industry has developed rapidly, promoted the rapid development of crane manufacturing industry in China. Anson keeps up with the development trend, we constantly innovate the technology, develop new products, improve the scientific and technological content of products, in order to meet the needs of more advanced crane. Thanks for our continuous efforts, Anson cranes have continuously got doubled increase year by year, are being exported to Europe, America, Africa, Southeast Asia, etc.    

The world crane industry is further integration, crane market in some developed countries like Europe and America has become saturated, foreign giants continue to enter China crane market, hope to seize the Chinese market with its technology superiority, at the same time, Chinese local crane enterprises are also constantly developing, China has became a battleground for a large number of foreign crane enterprises. We believe that Chinese crane companies, as well as Ansoncranes, will be the winner in this “global crane industry war”!