From one Grove to another: 20 years of lifting success for Nanjing Tengye

• Ge Liping, founder of Chinese crane rental company Nanjing Tengye, looks back on two decades of success with Grove all-terrain cranes, including a GMK6300L he bought for his 70th birthday.
• The company's 20-year relationship with Grove started with the purchase of a GMK6220L in 2004, which helped it carve out a niche in all-terrain lifting in Nanjing.

Ge Liping began his career in the crane industry running a successful repair shop. However, it was always his ambition to have his own crane rental business, so he saved all the money he could to make his first investment. And in 2004, when he was finally able to make that first purchase, he knew exactly what he wanted: a Grove GMK6220L.

When the GMK6220L arrived, Nanjing had a shortage of high-capacity all-terrain cranes, so it immediately proved a shrewd investment, setting the newly formed Nanjing Tengye on the road to success. The fledgling lifting company quickly won projects in the steel and petrochemical industries. Most imported cranes at the time only had booms shorter than 60 m, but the GMK6220L offered 72 m.

The purchase price of a GMK6220L was the equivalent of 20 premium retail stores in Nanjing's prestigious Xinjiekou district, but the investment paid off quickly.