History & Updates
The September 2011 issue of Cranes Today Magazine includes an article on the 2010 transport of the Futuro to its current location in Witten.
The Futuro was moved by the German Firm August Alborn who received an award from ESTA (the European Association of Abnormal Road Transport and Mobile Cranes) for the move. After considering and subsequently discounting disassembly for road transport and air transport the company settled on moving the Futuro by road in a fully assembled state.
This Futuro was owned by the ASV Stübbe Company located in Vlotho, Germany. We have so far been unable to ascertain if it was purchased directly from the manufacturing stream or if there was an intermediate owner/location but the latter seems unlikely since the Futuro had been on the ASV Stübbe campus for around 40 years when it was finally moved to Witten, Germany in 2010. To have been there 40 years would have required that it arrived on campus in 1970 right around the time the Futuro’s were b