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6 EXCLUSIVE: Blooming domestic crane market

2008 Olympic Games, 2010 Shanghai World Expo, and Òeleventh five-year-planÓ draw a bright future of Chinese construction projects in following several years. Crane has played an important role in all construction area. Lots of industries need crane, for example, power plan t, nuclear power, qu ay, tunnel, bridge, petrochemical, metallurgy, etc.. There will be a good sale record of crane in 2006.

Recently, crane has been improved in many aspects. Some new products were launched. The lift capacity record has been broken frequently. The transportation size optimized. New technology has been applied in crane. This is the trend in the future.

12 EXCLUSIVE: Features of overseas crawler cranes and its domestic market

This article introduces new technology and differences of three kinds of foreign crawler cranes, also domestic crawler crane market situation is included. As its unique features of high lift capacity, wide work space and lower pressure, superiorities of crawler crane are recognized by many people. Recently, thereÕre big changes in its structure, transmission, control etc.. Many Chinese companies have imported high lift capacity crawler crane for business, for example Liebherr LR11250 and Manitowc 21000. At the same time, domestic manufactures commit themselves to dev elop more new products. SA NY has lau nched SCC4000 crawler cran e in May 2006. Its lift capacity is the heaviest among d omestic crawler cranes now.

22 EXCLUSIVE: The application of lifting equpiments in petruleum & chemical projects in Saudi Arabia

In recently years, with the increasing price of petroleum, Saudi Arabia, the main petroleum exporting area, has adjusted it p etroleum export stratagem. It has changed direct p etroleum export to petruleum & chemical product expo rt, in order to increase ad ded value. With the increasing vest in petruleum & chemical, the constructio n of petruleum & chemical is booming in S audi Arabia.

Sinopec and AKER KVAERNER CORP got the bid of SABIC project in Saudi Arabia in May 2005. The union of the second construction company of Sinopec; Shanghai construction company of Sinopec and AKER KVAERNER CORP is responsible for this project.

50 RENTAL: AED rental 2006

ItÕs getting harder to tell the difference between dealers and large rental companies: They both have rental fleets offer daily rentals, deliver rental eq uipment, re-ren t and do their own service. An d who is the rental custo mer anyway? What do they rent? Where do they rent? Why do they rent? Plus are manufacturers changing the way they view the rental business? Do rental companies pay more or less than dealers for equipment? Do equipment brands matter in the rental equation?

In third-quarter 2005, AED mailed thousands of surveys to equipment dealers, rental companies, manufacturers and end users in excavation, commercial building, residential building, highway/streets/bridges, material production, and trucking/hauling to capture a current picture of the construction equipment rental industry, document important rental trends and provid e operatio nal comparisons and performance benchmarks.