2023 ESTA Awards Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

We are the experts for the exceptional! The Faymonville Group is the leading full-range manufacturer of special vehicles for heavy and special transports. Our product range includes solutions with payload capacities from 15 to 15,000 tons … and beyond.

The excellent facilities in a production space of 160,000 m² form the foundation for qualitatively unique, high-tech products. Our vehicles excel with their technical quality and sustainable production methods.


Founded in 1949, Liebherr is a family-run technology company with a highly diversified product portfolio. The company is one of the biggest cranes and construction equipment manufacturers in the world. It also provides high-quality, user-oriented products and services in a wide range of other areas.

The Liebherr Group includes over 140 companies across all continents. It employs around 48,000 staff and achieved combined revenues of over 10.3 billion euros in 2020.


The TII Group, a company owned by the Heilbronn-based Otto Rettenmaier family, is a globally active manufacturer of heavy-duty and special vehicles. The Group includes industry specialists, TII SCHEUERLE and TII KAMAG.

With innovative vehicles for maneuvering and transportation operations, the TII Group supports its customers in the transport and logistics sectors, building industry, plant engineering, air and space travel, shipbuilding, energy, steel and mining as well as yard logistics for realizing a wide range of complex transport tasks.

Silver Sponsors

Founded in 1893 in Ulm, Germany, Kässbohrer has always been at the forefront of innovation and offers Europe’s widest product range to its customers in more than 55 countries.

With “Enginuity”, engineering excellence coupled with ingenious customer-oriented solutions, Kässbohrer presents the complete low-bed range for loads under 100 tons. This includes fixed, extendable, and hydraulic Low-Beds and Low-Loaders, a total of more than 30 vehicles that can be configurated from 2 to 6 axle options according to your versatile needs.


Since 1902, the vision of Manitowoc’s founding fathers set the course for establishing Manitowoc as a strong, respected global organization throughout the world. Today, our customer driven culture, The Manitowoc Way, promotes innovation and velocity. Whether lifting solutions require crawler, boom, telescoping, or tower cranes, Manitowoc’s ingenuity will be there to Build Something Real for its customers, investors, employees, and partners.


As early as the 80s, Spierings changed the crane industry by putting the tower crane on wheels. Since our early days in Oss, Spierings Mobile Cranes has grown into a trend-setting global company.

Spierings cranes are extremely versatile, even where there is little space. Spierings keeps everything in-house, from engineering to manufacturing, from operator training to service and overhaul. Spierings Mobile Cranes is still that same family business made up of passionate employees who value close contact with customers above all else. Together, we will build the future. Lift to the Max.


Tadano’s products and technologies play a vital role in the construction of everything from high-rise office buildings and highways to environmentally friendly wing turbines and the houses we call home. 

Our lifting equipment, designed to work reliably even under the harshest operating conditions, continues to win the hard-earned confidence of our customers.

Event Supporters

GIS is the biggest European event, dedicated to the users of cranes, mobile cranes, aerial work platforms, telehandlers, forklift trucks, overhead travelling cranes, port & industrial handling equipment and heavy transport vehicles.

The 9th edition, GIS 2023, will be held from 5-7 October at the Piacenza Expo in Piacenza, Italy. 


Goldhofer Transport Technology delivers strictly user-oriented heavy-haulage solutions and a full range of dedicated accessories for on- and off-road operations with payloads of up to 15,000 tons and more.

The broad-based product portfolio is tailored to the requirements and infrastructures of the various regional markets and guarantees full flexibility, even for unusual operations.


Köhler Kran-Service is a specialist in repairing cranes, booms and telescoping cylinders. With over 50 years’ experience and 60 workers we have grown to be an important address for repairs.

The company is 100 % family owned | Yard > 14.000 m² | Workshops > 4.000 m² | 7 overhead cranes, max. capacity 2 x 30 t | Paintshop | 600t press for bending boom plates | Certified ISO 9001 | Welding qualification up to StE 1100


Nooteboom Trailers BV, a family business founded in 1881 based in the Netherlands, is an international manufacturer of special trailers for abnormal road transport.

Nooteboom designs and builds trailers with a payload of 20 to 200 tonnes, such as low loaders, semi low loaders, telescopic flatbed trailers, drawbar trailers, Super Wing Carriers and Mega Windmill Transporters.


Van Schaften Leasing B.V. is specialized in crane rental. They offer bare lease and rental solutions to customers worldwide. Van Schaften operates a modern crane fleet ranging from 30 to 1350 ton in different types and models. Recently the heavy lifting machinery is complemented with self-propelled modular transporters (SPMTs). Van Schaften can help you choose the right equipment for your situation, and improve the efficiency of your operation.


Established in 1958, Ritchie Bros. is a global asset management and disposition company, offering customers end-to-end solutions for buying and selling used heavy equipment, trucks and other assets in numerous industries including construction, transportation, agriculture, energy, oil and gas, mining, and forestry.

Network Reception Sponsors

Beequip is a financer of heavy equipment (used and new) for the construction, infrastructure and logistics sectors. Beequip enables (mostly Dutch) companies to grow through equipment leasing solutions.

You can count on flexibility and speed. We rarely say no to a good idea. We look beyond business figures, cash flows and contracts by first assessing the value of the equipment. We call that iron over numbers.


Matrax is a specialised dealer for exceptional transport vehicles. We offer the right special transport solution for every problem and in every sector. Matrax is the first and only Benelux cooperation partner of Goldhofer transport equipment. Besides Goldhofer, we also sell, rent and lease vehicles of other makes within exceptional transport.