Mobile Cranes

CONTENTS | AUGUST 2010:              REPORT OVERVIEW:

NORTH AMERICAN SALES

  Sales Breakdown by Segment
  Sales Breakdown by Region
  Market Trends

MARKET SHARES

  All-terrain Cranes
  Rough-terrain Cranes
  Industrial Cranes
  Hydraulic Truck Cranes
  Lattice Boom Cranes

NORTH AMERICAN PRODUCTION

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

COMPONENT SUPPLY

FIELD POPULATION

FORECAST

MANUFACTURER SUMMARY

  Badger Equipment
  Broderson Manufacturing
  Grove Worldwide  
  Kobelco
  Liebherr
  Lift Systems
  Link-Belt
  Manitowoc
  Sany America
  Tadano America
  Terex
  Valla

MANUFACTURER CONTACT INFORMATION

CURRENT MODELS AND TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

This equipment analysis report is an update to our last Mobile Cranes report published in December 2008 and covers five types of mobile cranes including All-Terrain, Rough-Terrain, Industrial, Hydraulic Truck and Lattice Boom types. Gantry and Tower cranes are not covered in this market analysis. Mobile cranes are widely used throughout the country in an array of applications ranging from highway and commercial construction to utility company needs and other non-construction jobs. Residential use of cranes is limited to high-rise construction projects involving apartment and condominium building.

The Mobile Crane market in North America has experienced ups and downs along with the economy in the past ten years, and in 2004, the market began to prosper again following the recession at that time. The crane market continued to show growth through 2008, but that growth slowed with the downturn in the nonresidential construction market, which led to a drop off in sales and production due to weakening demand in the U.S. and Canada by late 2008 and early 2009.

The growing instability in the housing market cascaded into a much larger economic and financial system collapse in the fall of 2008, which hindered sales and production levels across the board for most machinery markets we cover annually including the crane machinery market. In 2009, crane markets declined to drastically lower levels as discussed in this report.