History of Terex-Cranes
The history of cranes is closely linked to the name Terex and its products. Since more than 120 years our engineers have been working on the optimization on our machines with the goal to increase the capacity of the cranes as well as the safety and the comfort of the operators.
Terex Cranes is a division of Terex Corporation, Westport, USA. Terex Corporation is a diversified manufacturer of a brood range of equipment primarly for the construction, infrastructure, surface mining, utility and maintenance industrie.
1884
P&H was founded as a mobile cranes company.
1894
Lorain started with their business in mobile excavating and lifting equipment.
1882
American Crane founded, production of crawler cranes.
1918
Lorain designed the first rubber-tired crane.
1920
P&H designed the first machines with fully welded carbody.
1950
Demag’s first telescopic yard crane.
Capacity: 3 t
1956
Peiner built the biggest movable tower crane with over 300ft heigth.
1965
First lattice-boom truck crane with tube design for boom from Demag.
Capacity: 45 t
1968
PPM France founded, manufacturing of mobile cranes.
1968
Bendini founded, manufacturing of RT cranes.
1979
TC 4000
Strongest lattice-boom truck crane world-wide.
Capacity: 800 t
1982
Demag introduced superlift attachment with exceptional increase of lifting capacities.
1986
Franna started production of special lift & carry cranes.
1987
Demag CC 12000
Largest lattice-boom crawler crane on the market.
Capacity 1.000 t
1988
Super Sky Horse from American Crane could slew and travel with 900t on hook.
1998
CC 12600
Largest lattice-boom crawler crane on the market.
Capacity 1.600 t
1998
AC 650
Strongest telescopic truck crane world-wide.
Capacity: 650 t
2001
AC 60
City Class with sensational 50m boom length.
Capacity: 60 t
2002
CC 8800
Optimized transport weight < 40t and
size < 3.5m.
Capacity: 1.250 t
2007
CC 8800-1 Twin
World’s largest lattice boom crawler crane that can travel with load. The TWIN add-on kit for the CC 8800-1 increases its range of operation to a lifting capacity of 3200 mt (3525 US tons).
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Product Guide
Find the product range of Terex-Cranes and the most important service numbers in our actual Product Guide.
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