legends of lifting | Gleason cranes
Sold by Gleason XCMG XGT560, 25T Capacity
After 40 years in the crane business, Gleason Cranes regularly has second-generation clients, says Founder, Chris Logan. “From some of our clients and their businesses, we’re now up to selling them an 11th or 12th crane. It’s all word of mouth in this industry because it’s so small, everyone knows everyone else by reputation,” said Chris. Gleason Cranes is a trailblazer having been the first Australian company to import new and used cranes approved for operation in Australia. “We were the first company to master that and do it correctly. We’re still doing it today,” said Chris. Gleason’s is also the biggest buyer and seller of used cranes in Australia, and also acts as a broker and sells spare parts. Gleason Cranes is an Australian distributor for Zoomlion, XCMG, Ormig, R&B Mighty Crane and Galizia. As well they offer a comprehensive range of tower cranes, all terrain cranes, truck cranes, crawler cranes, rough terrain cranes, mini crawler cranes and pick and carry cranes etc. The company is a major seller of Chinese cranes across Australia. “We’ve been specialising in that for seven years. We put our name behind it. A lot of people treat Chinese products as being low quality, but today they are very, very reliable machines and you know that because you don’t get calls on the warranty,” Chris said.
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“They are very simple cranes, not overly engineered and not overly computerised so they’re fairly easy to fix. They give you all the protections of German and Japanese cranes, too.” An example of a Chinese crane manufacturer being a big global player, Zoomlion has 13 factories in China and employs over 50,000 people. Gleason Cranes also completes repairs and major inspections to Australian standards and offers a dry hire and crane finder service.
For more information contact Gleason Cranes Sales Pty Ltd, 24 Canterbury Road, Braeside VIC 3175, phone (sales) 1300 686 626, email sales@gleason.com.au, website www.gleason.com.au
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