OK, those who blast Chinese for the "copy cat" crane, you're just like a flog inside the well, your sky is just a small circle..
Senario are like this,
If a country is having huge gold mine, will they(goverment) dig themself or let other (foreigner) to dig away?? and only require them to pay some tax?
These are all lesson learn, from history of china and other country. See indonesia, a country full of natural resources, why the country still poor? How many mines are operated by foreigner?
China market is a huge piece of cake. Everyone are trying to enter the market, but the chinese goverment putting barrier for it to protect their interest. In order to enter china market(for this type of business) you need to joint venture with the local company. So all 3 parties are benefit from it.
Sany is one of the door for foreigner brand into china market.
Therefore you can see, sany products are similar to most products by other brand names like hitachi, terex, etc.
So, it is not counterfeited product, it is a joint venture product at lower cost.
In my opinion, it is indeed a low cost & affordable product if the buyer has limited fund, (like most of you said low quality) The crane is similar to LTM11200, why it is not label as 1200 tonner? 1000 ton instead? They know it is not as good quality as one made in Germany, therefore they label it as 1000 ton. So it is still do the job well & safe, with 200 ton lesser.
Beside, it has a very nice cab!! a scania alike cab as someone here said... I hopping for a model of it now
