Gelco and Compass Consulting

GELCO is a company owned by Mr. Franco Corradi and which specialises in building patented construction machinery.

GELCO was formed in 1980 to build off-road fork lift trucks, although the company focus has since changed as follows:

1982 - PATENT: Quadruplex lifting system for fork lift trucks
1984 - Production of a model of off-road fork lift truck with automatic accessory swap (bucket, fork, rear excavation device)
1985 - Production of a smaller, dual traction backhoe loader
1986 - PATENT: backhoe loader with 3-wheel steering, where the steering can be changed while in the stand-by position
1988 - Production of the P80WS, the first backhoe loader with 4-wheel steering and 80 HP
1992 - Production of the first lower rotation self-erecting crane, with an inverter system
1996 - INTERNATIONAL PATENT: production of the first self-erecting and self-moving crane, with 4-wheel steering
1997 - GELCO receives European Community funding to produce the CLEVER CRANE, an innovative and high-tech self-erecting crane
1999 - INTERNATIONAL PATENT: production of the first self-erecting crane with three tubular towers, one of which is telescopic
2001 - PATENT: production of the first self-erecting crane with three towers and a jib, divided into three separate parts
2003 - INTERNATIONAL PATENT: production of the first self-erecting crane with telescopic legs

GELCO currently manufactures ten different models of the self-erecting CLEVER CRANE, with a minimum transportation length of 8.5 metres, a minimum rotation radius of 1.45 metres and a maximum height of 24.5 metres.

Having enjoyed excellent sales in the Italian market over the last seven years, we are now expanding in order to sell these amazing self-erecting, lower rotation cranes worldwide.

WE ARE SEEKING DISTRIBUTORS AROUND THE WORLD.
If you are a reseller of tower cranes or self-erecting cranes, please contact us.

Formed in 1996, COMPASS CONSULTING markets technologically innovative self-erecting cranes.
The founders of the company, Mr. Severino Accossato and Mr. Mario Guiotto, have extensive experience with one of Italy's leading manufacturers of self-erecting cranes and tower cranes.
COMPASS CONSULTING was created primarily to market the newly patented self-erecting CLEVER CRANE produced by GELCO, a company owned by Mr. Franco Corradi and which specialises in building patented construction machinery.