News Release
Manitowoc Cranes helps celebrate Kirby-Smith Machinery’s new Kansas City location
12/7/2017
Kirby-Smith Machinery celebrated the grand opening of its new Kansas City location with an open house event on December 6th of 2017. The new addition brings the Oklahoma City-based company’s total locations to 10. The event featured a ribbon cutting ceremony and promotion of the Manitowoc, Grove and National Crane brands.
Rickey Bailey, vice president of Kirby-Smith’s crane division, said that a large part of the company’s 30-year success and consistent expansion has been partnering with top-tier manufacturers, including Manitowoc Cranes.
“Kirby-Smith Machinery prides itself on offering quality heavy equipment that has been chosen for its dependability, and all Manitowoc cranes certainly fit that description,” he said. “We’re proud to open our new Kansas City location to customers, and we were equally proud to have Manitowoc Cranes onboard as part of the celebration.”
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.