High on a Norwegian mountainside, a COPMA 650 on an Alpinservice truck arced its boom clean over a timber lodge to set a load down on the far side, without the truck ever leaving the track. It is the kind of lift that explains why the truck-mounted knuckle boom keeps turning up wherever access is tight and precision matters. A knuckle-boom crane earns its keep by turning up, doing the job, and driving away. Mounted behind the cab of a standard truck, a COPMA arrives under its own power, sets its outriggers on whatever ground it finds, and goes to work. No low-loader, no separate mobile crane, no road closure. With multi-section booms and fly jibs, a COPMA reaches up and over obstacles a straight boom cannot. Inside a stadium in Greece, a COPMA 530 threaded its boom between roof trusses to position a large LED screen. On a city-centre build, a COPMA 1400 lifted materials past scaffolding and up a facade from the street below. Tight sites, restricted access, precise placement: this is where the articulated arm pays for itself. Reach means little without capacity behind it. In a Swedish yard, a COPMA 820 swung a loaded shipping container off a flatbed and onto the stack in one clean movement. In the oil and gas fields of Colombia and on infrastructure work around Bogota, the heavier COPMA range handles the components that keep big projects moving. What ties those jobs together is engineering built to last. COPMA cranes are designed and built in Italy, part of CPS Group, and backed by a dealer and service network, from Alpinservice in Norway to partners across four continents, that keeps them working long after the sale. Operators do not choose a crane for a single lift; they choose it for a decade of them. That is what built for legacy means in the field. Whatever you are lifting, there is a COPMA configured for it. Explore the full range and find your local dealer at cps-group.com.
Hero image: Alpinservice (Norway), COPMA 650. Published by CPS Group.