News Release
ABA adds 13th Grove to its UK fleet
03/12/2014
Handover of ABA Cranes’ 13th Grove crane L-R: Andy Cahill, Manitowoc Crane Group UK with John Poole, ABA Cranes.
ABA Cranes Ltd, one of the UK’s largest crane hire companies, has added a fourth Grove GMK4100L all-terrain crane to its fleet. The latest unit arrived in September, bringing the company’s total fleet of Grove cranes to 13, which it provides to a wide variety of job sites across the midlands.
ABA’s Grove cranes are always at work. The only time they spend at their base in Bloxwich is for routine maintenance, which company manager Dale England is delighted with.
“We keep buying Grove cranes because we know they earn their keep,” he says. “They are very versatile units that are quick to set-up and easy to use. Hardly ever seeing them means they are doing a good job and I am sure we will buy more Grove cranes in the future.”
ABA bought its first Grove crane in the year 2000. Since then, the company has regularly added to its fleet, which now includes cranes with capacities from 35 t to 130 t. The company bought its first Grove GMK4100L in 2007.
The Grove cranes are deployed at a wide range of construction and individual lift projects. Recent jobs have seen the cranes install an industrial chimney stack at a processing plant, lift pre-fabricated structures and general materials at a residential development, and placing static caravans at a holiday park.
Grove’s GMK4100L is a 100 t capacity, four-axle, all-terrain crane. It offers an impressive 60 m main boom, which can be extended to 77 m with a jib. The GMK4100L is built at Grove’s manufacturing plant in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Established in 1980, ABA has more than 35 employees. The company’s 28 operators tend to stick to the same crane, making that specific unit their specialized tool, and speeding up work at the job site.
The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (“Manitowoc”) was founded in 1902 and has over a 117-year tradition of providing high-quality products and support services that are tailored to customers’ needs. Its 2019 net sales were approximately $1.83 billion. Manitowoc is one of the world's leading providers of engineered lifting solutions. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Manitowoc designs, manufactures, markets and supports comprehensive product lines of mobile telescopic cranes, tower cranes, lattice-boom crawler cranes, boom trucks and industrial cranes under the Grove, Potain, Manitowoc, National Crane, Shuttlelift and Manitowoc Crane Care brand names.