Bronto Skylift
| Bronto Skylift Oy Ab | |
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| legal form | |
| founding | 1972 (Bronto Skylift OY AB) |
| Seat |
Tampere Finland
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| management | Harry Clayhills |
| Number of employees | 430 (2015) |
| sales | 104 million euros (2015) |
| Branch | vehicle construction |
| Website | www.brontoskylift.com |
Bronto Skylift is a Finnish manufacturer of aerial rescue and aerial work platforms . The company is the world market leader with over 6,700 vehicles delivered in more than 120 countries since it was founded. The company has held the world record for fire brigade platforms on a truck chassis with a height of 112 m since 2010 .
The group is based in Tampere , and Harry Clayhills has been managing director since 2015; the former managing director Esa Peltola retired in 2015.
At the beginning of 2016, Bronto Skylift was sold by the previous owner, Federal Signal , to the Japanese market leader for fire fighting technology, Morita Holdings Corporation.
Corporate structure
From 1995 to March 2016, Bronto Skylift OY AB was part of Federal Signal Corporation, Oak Brook, IL.
Since March 2016, Bronto Skylift OY AB has been part of Morita Holdings Corporation, Osaka, Japan. The company has subsidiaries in Switzerland, Germany, the USA and Sweden.
history
The company was founded in 1938 by K. Nummela Omnibusbau . In 1961, Bronto delivered its first 2-armed aerial rescue platform to a municipal customer. In 1966 the first three-armed fire and rescue platform was delivered. The customer is the Täby Fire Brigade in Sweden . The business, which was limited to Europe until then, is expanded in 1970. The first customer was the Damascus Fire Brigade in Syria , which is buying an aerial rescue platform. The Bronto Skylift company was founded in its current form in 1972.
In 1980 the highest working platform in the world at that time was presented at 50 m. Bronto delivered its first rescue platform with a ladder to the Savonlinna fire brigade in Finland in 1985 . A year later, Bronto delivered a fire and rescue platform with its own extinguishing system to the Athens fire brigade for the first time . The world's highest extinguishing mast (WFT) at 50 meters was delivered to the KNPC Refinery Fire Brigade in Kuwait in 1987 . In 1988 the old world record was improved and a 68 meter high fire and rescue platform was presented, and again in 1994 a 72 meter high fire and rescue platform. In 2000, the world record was broken by WUMAG elevant with an 85 meter high aerial work platform . In the same year Bronto followed with a height of 88 meters - extended to 90 meters in 2002. In 2001 Bronto extended the rescue ladder to 42 m. In 2005 the world record, which had meanwhile been broken by a competitor, was increased again - Bronto presented the first 90 m aerial rescue platform with the F 90 HLA. The world record, which was broken shortly afterwards by Ruthmann's TTS 1000 with 100.4 m, was later extended to 101 m by Bronto in 2006. One year later, however, WUMAG significantly exceeded the height, the record now being the WT 1000 with 102.5 m. It wasn't until 2009 that Bronto managed to break the world record again. The Bronto Skylift F 104 HLA, the world's largest platform mounted on a road chassis, reaches 104 m. In 2010, the world record for work platforms was again significantly expanded to 112 m on the occasion of the Interschutz in Leipzig, both vehicles can also be built on chassis suitable for off-road use. In 2013 Bronto Skylift presented its new S-XR range. Initially with heights of 47, 56 and 63 m. The XR series will be presented at Interschutz 2015 as a fire service model, with the FL 45 XR and the FL 60 XR, in Hanover. The FL 60 XR is the highest aerial rescue platform currently available with a rescue ladder.
Over time, the brand names K.NUMMELA, NUMMELA SKY-LIFT, BRONTO, SKY-LIFT, LEBO, WIBE, KEIRALIFT, BRONTO SAURUS were used.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bronto Skylift.Retrieved June 7, 2017.
- ^ Tarantola, Andrew: World's Biggest Basket Lift Is Taller Than All of Notre Dame. In: Gizmodo. August 2, 2011, Retrieved November 14, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Bronto with a new tip. In: https://vertikal.net . August 17, 2015, accessed November 14, 2019 .
- ^ Bronto Skylift sold to Morita - fire department. In: www.kohlhammer-feuerwehr.de. December 11, 2015, accessed November 14, 2019 .
- ^ Pierce Manufacturing Named Exclusive North American Distributor for Bronto Skylift Aerial Platforms. In: https://www.firefighternation.com/ . March 15, 2011, Retrieved November 14, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Jörg Hajt (Ed.): Fire Department: The most spectacular emergency vehicles . HEEL Verlag, Königswinter 2015, ISBN 3-95843-210-7 .