Manitowoc announces largest Potain luffing jib crane at bauma 2025

• The 64 t maximum capacity of the new MR 819 is twice that of the existing Potain MR 608B and MR 618 luffing jib tower cranes.
• The 70 m jib can be raised to create an out-of-service radius of just 16 m, making the crane ideal for congested jobsites.
• A powerful new winch, Potain CONNECT™, and Ultra View cab also feature.

Manitowoc used bauma 2025 to reveal details of its largest Potain luffing jib crane for the European and North American markets. The MR 819 has up to 70 m of jib available and a maximum capacity of 64 t - double that of the current largest Potain luffing jib tower cranes, the 32 t capacity MR 608B and MR 618. Manitowoc's Voice of the Customer (VOC) program was crucial to developing the latest flagship model, which addresses the demand for large luffing jib tower cranes to handle heavy precast elements and support infrastructure projects such as bridges and nuclear power plants.

"We developed the Potain MR 819 to support our large rental and high-profile contractor customers," said Thibaut Le Besnerais, VP of marketing and development for tower cranes at Manitowoc. "To develop the new crane, we drew heavily on the design of our latest luffer, the MR 309. This allowed us to engineer a crane with optimally sized components that offer the easiest transport and assembly."

This new design delivers a very short out-of-service radius - from 18 m to 16 m depending on jib length - allowing for installation on sites where space is limited, or a high density of cranes is required. Using a dozen 5 m sections of Potain's strong new 2.45 m, K 880 mast system, the crane can be erected at a freestanding height of 65.6 m with jib configurations up to 50 m, or it can be configured at a 60.6 m height, using 11 mast sections plus the full nine sections of jib. When anchored to a building, it needs just five anchoring frames to reach 210 m with a 65 m jib (for a C25 wind profile).