Shortlist for record ESTA Awards
12 March 2013
A record 73 entries for the 2013 ESTA Awards of Excellence made the job of drawing up a shortlist of those in the running for an award all the more difficult. IC here reveals the shortlisted companies.
The winners of the 2013 ESTA Awards will be announced during the spectacular Awards of Excellence and dinner event on 18 April in Munich, Germany.
The shortlist of nominated entries for the annual ESTA Awards of Excellence was drawn up by the European Association of Abnormal Road Transport and Mobile Cranes. ESTA is a pan-European association for national trade associations representing mobile crane rental, heavy haulage and abnormal load transport companies.
The annual ESTA Awards of Excellence is the most prestigious European event for all ESTA members, affiliated companies, end users and manufacturers working in heavy haulage, transport and the lifting industry. Cranes covered include wheeled mobiles, crawlers, knuckle boom loader cranes, other truck cranes and truck mounted access platforms.
A record showing of 73 entries this year was received for the following 11 categories:
* Safety award
* Transport job under 120 tonnes
* Transport job above 120 tonnes
* Lifting job, telescopic crane under 120 tonnes
* Lifting job, telescopic crane above 120 tonnes
* Lifting job; lattice boom crane
* Combined techniques, lifting and transport
* SPMT (self propelled modular transporter)
* Innovation or Development of the year, end user
* Innovation or Development of the year, manufacturer
* Gino Koster Award (Personality of the Year).
To be eligible for entry, companies needs to be a member of an ESTA national association in Europe. Affiliate members of ESTA are also eligible for the Innovation Award. The Innovation Award has two categories: manufacturers and end users. Company entries shortlisted for the 2013 awards appear in the panel, left.
ESTA Awards 2013 shortlist
Cranes, telescopic, lifting capacity less than 120 tonnes
TP Kranar, Sweden
BMS, Denmark
Koninklijke Saan, Netherlands
Cranes, telescopic, lifting capacity more than 120 tonnes
Breuer & Wasel, Germany
BMS, Denmark
Sarens, Belgium
Mammoet Germany, Germany
Cranes, lattice boom
Nordic Crane Stangeland, Norway
Aertssen Kranen, Belgium
Sarens, Belgium
Sarens Nederland, Netherlands
Transport
A. Trailer and load under 120 tonnes gross weight
FTX Logistics, United Kingdom
G Vlastuin Transport, Netherlands
Wagenborg Nedlift, Netherlands
Kübler Spedition, Germany
B. Trailer and load over 120 tonnes gross weight
ALE, United Kingdom
Fagioli, Italy
Ville Silvasti, Finland
Hareket, Turkey
Combined Techniques
ALE, United Kingdom
Sarens, Belgium
Mammoet Europe, Netherlands
Sarens Nederland, Netherlands
Safety
ALE, United Kingdom
Fagioli, Italy
Aertssen Kranen, Belgium
Innovation, End User
Wagenborg Nedlift, Netherlands
ALE, United Kingdom
Fagioli, Italy
August Alborn, Germany
Innovation, Manufacturer
Liebherr-Werk Ehingen, Germany
Manitowoc, Germany
Goldhofer, Germany
Terex Cranes, Germany
SPMT
ALE, United Kingdom
Fagioli, Italy
Roll-It, Belgium
Mammoet Germany, Germany.
A winner from the nominations in each category will be announced at the ESTA 2013 dinner and awards party on Thursday 18 April 2012 at the Westin Grand Hotel in Munich, Germany. This event punctuates the Bauma exhibition of construction equipment and services held every three years.
For more information visit www.khl-group.com/events/esta and www.esta-eu.org/awards