Manitowec's newly expanded facility in Italy

Manitowoc recently opened its newly expanded factory at Niella Tanaro in Italy. The new 2,500 sqm facility will manufacture the company's two- and three-axle Grove rough-terrain cranes.

The plant now manufactures all the company's all-terrains, after production was transferred from the Wilhelmshaven factory in Germany. Niella Tanaro also builds Potain self-erecting and top-slewing tower cranes.

Eric Etchart, president and general manager of Manitowoc, says the new factory will extend capability in Italy and create additional capacity at other Manitowoc factories. "The expansion here is important because it gives us greater capacity to build more cranes, but equally important is the capacity that is freed up at our other facilities.

"Building rough-terrain cranes here for the Italian market gives us greater flexibility at our factory in Shady Grove, Pennsylvania," Etchart says.