The domestic market for crawler cranes is growing at an alarming rate

The history of crawler cranes in China is relatively short. Compared with other advanced foreign products such as Terex, Demag, and Manitowoc, there is still a certain gap between design and manufacturing. In recent years, the domestic crawler cranes have developed rapidly and the product line has been continuously improved. A full range of products of different models ranging from 35t to 3600t have been developed. The crawler crane with larger tonnage is also in the development stage.

Crawler cranes are mainly used in petrochemical, petroleum, chemical, energy, steel, and large-scale municipal construction projects. With the increase of large-scale hoisting projects in China, China's crawler cranes are ushering in a new development climax.

According to statistics, from the perspective of the market share of crawler cranes in the four major categories of mobile cranes from 2002 to 2008, China’s crawler crane market has seen rapid growth from less than 1% in 2001 to 5.98 in 2008. %. In 2009, affected by the global financial crisis, the proportion of crawler cranes in mobile cranes declined, and then remained at a rate of around 4%. At the same time, China's crawler crane companies have also begun to develop rapidly and have made continuous breakthroughs in technology. The trend of domestic products replacing imported products is gradually reflected, and the sales of domestic crawler cranes have risen rapidly. In 2008, the sales of crawler cranes were as high as 1,678 units. In 2009, the sales of crawler cranes fell significantly compared with the previous year, especially in the small-tonnage crawler cranes. Large tonnage performance was relatively good, showing a year-on-year growth trend. In 2010, sales of crawler cranes increased 48% year-on-year, and sales reached 1,749 units. In 2011, under the situation that the domestic construction machinery industry clearly showed highs and lows, the crawler cranes continued the high growth trend in 2010, the sales volume in the second quarter declined slightly, and rebounded slightly in the third quarter. Sales of 1485 units.

In the face of promising market development prospects, not only large foreign crawler cranes have landed heavily in China, but also domestic crawler crane manufacturers have accelerated the pace of R&D of large crawler cranes, represented by Zoomlion, Sanyi Technology, Fugong Heavy Industry and Xugong Construction Machinery. The domestic backbone enterprises have started to launch strong attacks on medium to large tonnage crawler cranes:

In October 2005, Xuzhou Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. took the lead in the development of the first 300-ton crawler crane in China; in May 2006, Sany Technology upgraded this record to 400 tons; in December 2007, Zoomlion also launched a 600-ton crawler crane. In November 2008, Sany also successfully developed a 900-ton crawler crane. In September 2009, Zoomlion held a grand ceremony for the offline production of a 1,000-ton crawler crane, marking the entry of a domestically-built large-tonnage crawler crane into the 1,000-ton era; In 2009 BICES, Trinity launched the largest 1180-ton crawler crane in Asia, SCC11800; less than one year later, Fuyu Heavy Industry developed a QUY1250 with a maximum lifting capacity of 1,250 tons on May 19, 2010. A stunning debut, once again set a record for domestic large-tonnage crawler cranes; in April 2011, Xugong’s 2000-ton crawler crane XGC28000 passed the appraisal; on May 28, Changsha Zoomlion launched the world’s largest crawler crane. ZCC3200NP; followed on May 29 by the super large-tonnage SCC86000TM crawler crane known as "the world's No. 1 crane," a line-off ceremony was held at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Sany. It once again refreshed the Zoomlion for only one day. World record.

The crawler crane market in China is developing at an alarming rate and it can be called “a thousand miles”. The fierce competition among enterprises will make China's crawler crane industry even more exciting.