Linden Comansa was a company which started manufacturing jig and tool during the early 1960s. They went by the name "Imausa". The company started out supplying mostly the bigger sub-contractors to the then booming automotive business
Around that same time, there was a strong industrial expansion in Spain. This period saw Imausa making more sophisticated machine tools, jigs and various kinds of tools for both in-house and external applications. The company also specialized in making pre-fabricated steel structures particularly for industrial buildings.
The company's most logical and next step was into the crane market. The Spanish tourist industry exploded to rapidly become amongst the globe's biggest tourism magnets. This mass expansion of course brought a parallel demand for housing, hospitals and schools among other things. The company became very busy, very fast.
Production
The very first cranes that were produced were saddle-jib, simple cranes. They were mainly suitable to the building methods at that particular time. The very first crane model eventually grew into a range of cranes with a capacity ranging from 12 to 42 metric-tons.
Linden Comansa saddle-jib cranes had already met the 200 metric-ton barrier by the early 1970s. Linden Comansa has surpassed the standard and has continued to design and engineer cranes which surpass the 900 metric ton capacity. There is currently design and manufacturing facilities that allow the production and development of more spectacular and even bigger machinery.
There are some specific advantages offered by the unique Linden 8000 Modular System crane, which made it a logical addition to the range Linden Comansa provided to customers all around the world. These customers all over the globe have purchased about 12,000 Linden Comansa cranes in addition to the roughly 6000 machinery manufactured by Linden-Alimak within Sweden. These different other cranes were made before the acquisition of the world-wide selling and manufacturing rights of this specific modular system.