Imperial Crane Services Expands Its Fleet

Imperial Crane Services continued its trend towards growth and expansion with a purchase of $10.5 million in new cranes.

Michael Roth

June 24, 2015

The growing commercial and industrial construction economy is providing growth opportunities for the Chicagoarea crane rental company — The growing commercial and industrial construction economy is providing growth opportunities for the Chicago-area crane rental company.

Imperial Crane Services continued its trend towards growth and expansion with a purchase of $10.5 million in new cranes. The company purchased two 40-ton Terex cranes, two 65-ton Grove units, one 115-ton Grove crane, one 165-ton Grove machine, and two 350-ton Groves.

Imperial felt it was the right time for these purchases based on its forecast of an upbeat crane rental and sales market beginning this year.

“Through B.J. [Bohne]’s leadership, Imperial has grown to become one of the nation’s premier crane rental companies and as such, we are proud to have this opportunity to build on our relationship both personally and professionally,” said Mike Lanigan, president of Walter Payton Power Equipment, a Riverdale, Ill.-based crane dealer.

Imperial Crane’s recent purchase will increase its fleet to more than 250 pieces of equipment ranging from 18 to 600 tons.

Based in Bridgeview, Ill., Imperial Crane Services is No. 44 on the RER 100.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.