Link-Belt Cranes

Link-Belt Cranes
Company typeWholly-owned subsidiary
IndustryHeavy equipment
Predecessors
  • Link-Belt Machinery Company (1986–1998)
  • Link-Belt Company (1906–1986)
  • Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company (1880–1906)
Founded1880 (1880) in Belle Plaine, Iowa, US
FounderWilliam Dana Ewart
HeadquartersLexington, Kentucky, US
Key people
Melvin Porter (President & CEO)
Products
ParentSumitomo Heavy Industries
Websitelinkbelt.com

Link-Belt Cranes is an American industrial company that develops and manufactures heavy construction equipment, specializing in telescopic and lattice boom cranes. Link-Belt is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, and is a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate, Sumitomo Heavy Industries.