ESTA Awards winners for 2014 announced in Amsterdam
24 April 2014
The winners of the 2014 ESTA Awards for lifting and transport were announced on 24 April at the ESTA Users Night and Awards Dinner 2014, organised by ESTA and International Cranes and Specialized Transport, at the Mövenpick Hotel in Amsterdam.
More than 250 industry professionals attended the event. Winners included Michielsens, Nordic Crane Stangeland, Fagioli, Liebherr and Mammoet, with the Gino Koster Award given posthumously to Karl Greiner, founder of hydraulic gantry systems company Greiner GmbH, who died in 2011.
Alex Taylor hosted the evening and the awards were presented by ESTA director Søren Jansen. This year 69 entries were nominated for awards.
The winners were:
Cranes, telescopic, lifting capacity up to 120 tonnes
Nordic Crane Stangeland, Norway.
Cranes, telescopic, lifting capacity above 120 tonnes
Michielsens, Belgium.
Cranes, Lattice Boom
Wagenborg Nedlift, Netherlands.
Transport
A. Trailer and load under 120 tonnes gross weight
Collett & Sons, United Kingdom.
B. Trailer and load over 120 tonnes gross weight
Wagenborg Nedlift, Netherlands.
Combined Techniques
ALE, United Kingdom.
Safety
Liebherr-Werk Ehingen, Germany.
Innovation End User
Fagioli, Italy.
Innovation Manufacturer
Mammoet, Netherlands.
SPMT
Sarens, Netherlands.
The Gino Koster award
The final award of the night was The Gino Koster award, presented to a personality whose work and influence has taken the industry onto a higher level. The winner of this year’s award was Karl Greiner. It was presented by David Collett, ESTA president and Collett Transport managing director, to Margot Greiner and Michael Greiner, who collected the award on behalf of Karl Greiner.
Gold sponsor for the awards was Terex, with silver sponsors Liebherr, Manitowoc, Scheuerle/Nicolas/Kamag, and Tadano. Supporting sponsors were Euro Rigging, Faymonville and Köhler Kran-Service.
The judges
The jury was jointly chaired by Cor van Unen and Peter van Dam, under the guidance of co-ordinator Wim Richie. Jurors for transport, safety, innovation and self propelled modular transporters (SPMT) were Peter van Dam (chair), John Dyne, Wolfgang Draaf, Wim Kattouw, Wim Richie and Ambro Smit. Jurors for cranes, combined techniques, safety and innovation were Cor van Unen (Chair), Andreas Gurtner, Willem Spek, Peter Libert, Nils Lundgren and Sergio Pontalto.
Full details of the winning entries will be available on ESTA and International Cranes and Specialized Transport websites and magazine.
