Company
Demag has been a part of Terex Corporation, Westport, USA in the year 2002. Terex Corporation is a diversified manufacturer of a brood range of equipment primarly for the construction, infrastructure, surface mining, utility and maintenance industrie.
Chronicle
Crane manufacturing is a trade with a long tradition. There is evidence of lifting appliances having been built as long ago as 5000 BC. Engineers have long been fascinated by the concept of making lifting easier - the polymath Leonardo da Vinci among them. Among many other things, he produced a detailed design of a crane on rollers - a mobile crane - all of 500 years ago.
In the industrial world of these modern times the requirements being placed on crane mobility are becoming ever more complex. For half a century now we have been developing mobile cranes under the Demag emblem, starting with the legendary "Krake" which, built in the 1950s, was Europe's first all-terrain crane.
To exploit all the possibilities of modern technology while learning from the successes of past traditions - that is the Terex-Demag recipe for success.
19th Century
1827
Christian Dingler established oil and corn mills in Zweibrücken
Since 1890
Machines for the near coal mines and machines for the near steelworks were produced
20th Century
1950
V 2500
First telescopic boom crane
Capacity: 2,5 t
1954
Demag AG takes over the former Dinglerwerke
Activities are incorporated into the Baumaschinen group
1955
V 7000
First machine of a very successful series of industrial yard cranes
1956
Krake
First all terrain crane world-wide
12t lifting capacity
1963
HC 25
First telescopic truck crane
Capacity: 12 t
1965
V 62
Telescopic crane for public roads
Capacity: 7,5 t
1965
TC 120
First lattice-boom truck crane with tube design for boom
Capacity: 45 t
1972
HC 50
2-axle crane below 20 t weight
Pioneer for all terrain crane
1973
Mannesmann holds majority of Demag shares
1974
TC 1200
Lattice-boom truck crane with 144 m lifting height
Capacity: 250 t
1975
HC 500
Longest telescopic crane on the market with 160 t capacity
1979
TC 4000
Strongest lattice boom crane worldwide with 800 t capacity
1979
CC 4000
Lattice boom crawler crane with 800 t capacity
1980
HC 130
Market leader of telescopic cranes with new design
Capacity: 55 t
1982
HC 510
Introduction of Superlift attachment with exceptional increase of lifting capacities
1984
HC 810
First 300 t crane on 8 axles
1987
CC 12000
Largest lattice-boom crawler crane on the market with 1,000t capacity
1990
AC 1600
Strongest telescopic truck crane world-wide
Capacity: 500 t
1992
Erection of a new factory for telescopic cranes < 100 t in Wallerscheid, Shipment of the 1st crane in 1993: AC 155 (50 t)
1993
AC 155
Shipment of the 1st AC 155
Pioneer of a series of Demag all terrain cranes
Capacity: 50 t
1994
AC 205
2nd Demag all terrain crane
Capacity: 80 t
1998
CC 12600
Largest lattice-boom crawler crane on the market with 1,600t capacity
1999
AC 650
Strongest telescopic truck crane world-wide
Capacity: 650 t
21st Century
2000
AC 50-1
New design with axle group on the back for better manoevrability
Capacity: 50 t
2001
AC 60 City Class with sensational 50m boom length
Capacity: 60 t
2001
CC 8800
Optimized for transport weight < 40t and size < 3,5m
Capacity: 1250 t
2003
AC 200-1
68m main boom on 5 axles is record in this class
Capacity: 200 t
2004
AC 120-1/AC 140
Identical superstructure with 60m main boom
Carrieres are optimized to specific demands concerning road regulations
Capacity: 120 / 140 t
2004
AC 250-1
Again a record: 80m main boom on 6 axles
Capacity: 250 t
2004
CC 2000-1/CC 2200
Identical base machine and an optimized boom system for either best transportability or max strength
Capacity: 300 / 350 t
Terex Demag is member of
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