Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting businesses established in the 1920’s and serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. The group has approximately 17,000 employees in 50 countries, throughout 600 locations and is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.

 

One of its main differentiating characteristics is that it is the only company in the crane industry that manufactures and designs its critical components, such as motor, gearbox drive and associated software. Through this business proposal, the company takes true responsibility for the longevity of all their lifting equipment. Over the past years, Konecranes has been working on a few subjects, such as automation, to maximize productivity while connecting intelligent machines to services. There has also been an effort in developing preventive, maintenance and advanced diagnostics using their service TRUCONNECT which improves safety in operations with the software- based functionally called Smart Features. This feature provides the cranes with added intelligence to solve problems in main operations and reduce load cycle times. Last but not least, the company invests in startups that are working with advanced measurement technologies and algorithms, empowering field service and natural language analytics.