News Release
AMECO adds new GMK6400 to assist in Chile’s growing sectors
6/8/2016
Eugenio Frings, Manitowoc's regional business manager in Chile, delivers a brand-new Grove GMK6400 to AMECO’s Assistant Manager of Operations Gaston Mauricio Gonzalez Quezada, and Lifting Operations Instructor Ricardo Gregorio Araya Vergara.
AMECO has just added a 400 t (450 USt) Grove GMK6400 to its ranks. The global company, which has operated in Chile since 1994, acquired the all-terrain crane to deliver precise lifts to the country’s mining, energy and infrastructure sectors. The firm has facilities in the cities of Santiago, Antofagasta and Copiapó, servicing the greater part of Chile’s major economic centers. AMECO’s GMK6400 is the third crane of its kind Manitowoc has delivered to a Latin American customer in recent months.
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.