Demag V-type crane earns Red Dot Award

Terex MHPS GmbH has announced that its Demag V-type crane has won the 2015 Red Dot Award: Product Design. The international jury made up of designers, design professors, and trade journalists from 25 nations recognized the V-type crane girder for high design quality in the machinery product category.

The crane is characterized by its V-shaped structure, comprising vertical struts and tapered diaphragm joints. True to bionics, the developers based their design on the honeycomb-like structure of bones, deliberately using material only where needed.

The crane’s architecture reduces the vibration frequency by 30 percent, lowers the weight by an average of 17 percent, and doubles the lifetime to over 500,000 load changes compared to conventional cranes with closed box-section girders or I-beam girders, says the manufacturer.

About 5,000 products from 56 countries were submitted for the award. The V-type crane will be shown in an exhibition from June 29 to July 26, 2015, at the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen, Germany, and will be part of the museum’s permanent exhibition in the following months.