Zoomlion ElectroMech into rack and pinion hoists

Zoomlion Electromech launches rack and pinion hoists for safe vertical transportation of man and materials. The company also plans to offer tower cranes between 5-240 tons, higher capacity cranes 10t and above.

Zoomlion Electromech will exclusively distribute Zoomlion's rack and pinion hoists in the Indian construction market. "With growing trend of high rise construction in India, requiring safe vertical transportation of man and materials, we foresee rising demand of man and material hoists, making us to venture into marketing the product. We have sold fair numbers of these products to project developers in Mumbai. We will look to assemble the product at our Pune plant in near future," says Mr. Tushar Mehendale, MD, Zoomlion - Electomech.

Mentioning about the company's positioning and business strategy to expand its tower crane business based on its joint venture with Zoomlion, Mr. Mehendale says, "We are well positioned to offer tower cranes between 5-240 tons. Apart from the popular 5t models, we also specialise in providing higher capacity cranes 10t and above.

Hence, apart from catering to the general mass tower cranes market, our focus will also be towards special projects involving precast construction, tunnel formwork and other sophisticated construction methodologies being deployed by real estate developers as well as infra construction companies."