Have you ever wondered why all the plastic soft drink bottles you see in the grocery store are measured in liters instead of the U.S. system of measurement?

Krupp Industries is an old manufacturing company that produces the blow molding devices that are used to make these plastic bottles. These devices can produce 10,000 bottles per hour. No American company manufactures these molding machines so the bottles areproduced in metric meaasured sizes, the standard measuring system used worldwide.

Krupp Industries was founded in the early 1800's and has manufactured cranes since the 1950's. The company has locations in North America (Toronto, Pittsburgh, and Houston, Texas), Asia, Hong Kong, Australia, the Middle East, and throughout Europe. Krupp presently employs over 53,000 people and focuses its crane production on the 100 ton to 500 ton niche of the worldwide truck crane market. Typically hydraulic truck cranes in this range of size are priced at between $750,000 and $5,000,000. Krupp narrows this niche of the hydraulic truck crane market even further by concentrating it's efforts on cranes up to 275 tons and a price range of $750,000 to $2,000,000. Krupp will inventory cranes up to 275 tons and custom builds from order any crane larger than that.

The KMK (Krupp Mobile Krane) 5100, 150 ton crane that Texas Crane has in its rental fleet is the mainstay of the Krupp product line. This particular model is offered in a range of sizes from 110 tons to 150 tons. A unique heavy lift attachment allows the 5100 to be rated up to 150 tons. Texas Crane chose to purchase the heavy lift attachment for it's KMK 5100. Krupp Industries strives to stay on the cutting edge of crane engineering and technology. The KMK 5100 was designed to be lighter (125,000 GVW and stronger than competitive models in the same tonnage classification. As an example of this the carrier of the KMK 5100 makes use ofjust five axles to carry 125,000 pounds of vehicle weight. Competitive models in the same tonnage class use up to six axles to carry over 200, 000 pounds of total vehicle weight. The KMK 5100 series carrier also employs the use of a hydraulic suspension cylinder system to effectively navigate in uneven terrain, hence the all terrain designation. This suspension as opposed to the traditional leaf-spring suspension combined with its heavy duty allison automatic transmission allows this huge vehicle to literally ride down the beach, if necessary, to get to the customer's job. All of these state of the art technological advances illustrates Krupp 's commitment to providing the most advanced and most productive hydraulic all terrain truck crane available in today's construction equipment industry. Krupp's emphasis on superior craftsmanship and advanced safety features in product development had a large impact on Texas Crane's decision to purrhase the largest hydraulic truck crane in the Central Texas Crane Market and to be the first owner of a Krupp all terrain hydraulic truck crane in that same market.