Heavy Lifting

Our Heavy Lifting Business Area is the world’s leading provider of heavy-duty cranes for process industries, and a global supplier of cranes and lift trucks for ports, terminals, and shipyards.

Products include heavy-duty process cranes, shipyard gantry cranes, ship-to-shore container cranes, shipboard gantry cranes, RTG (rubber-tired gantry) and RMG (rail mounted gantry) cranes, reachstackers, straddle carriers, empty container handlers, and heavy-duty forklift trucks. These are manufactured at the company’s own plants in Finland, Sweden, the UK, USA, and China; and by partners in Poland, the Ukraine, Estonia, and China.

The main customers of Heavy Lifting include primary metal producers, large manufacturing workshops, warehousing companies, pulp and paper producers, energy utilities, waste-to-energy producers, automotive manufacturers, shipbuilders, small and medium-sized ports, and intermodal terminals.

Vision

Konecranes’ vision is to cement its position as the recognised leader in heavy-duty cranes for process industries, and become the world leader in high-performance, reliable harbour and shipyard cranes and lift trucks.

Strategy

The strategy  of Heavy Lifting is based on continuous product development and innovation, coupled with world-class service designed to improve the productivity and profitability of customers’ processes and ensure that Konecranes continues to offer customers the lowest total lifetime cost of ownership available. To maximise supply chain flexibility, Heavy Lifting has prioritised the use of modular product platforms, which enables products to be manufactured in-house and by manufacturing partners, according to market needs.

Increasing globalisation is driving growth

The key drivers fuelling demand for the Heavy Lifting Businesses™ – and more sophisticated material handling solutions generally – continue to be the trend towards greater globalisation, more containerisation, the transfer of production to new countries, and companies’ ongoing search for greater cost efficiencies.