The TeichmannGroup based in Essen has successfully acquired the traditional crane manufacturing company, the former TAKRAF GRESSE GmbH Kranbau Wittenberg, with all its employees and production sites. The company based in Wittenberg, Germany can look back on more than 130 years of tradition as a manufacturer of gantry cranes, overhead travelling cranes and container cranes and was the largest crane manufacturer in the former GDR (East Germany) with more than 150 manufactured container cranes and more than 500 manufactured gantry cranes.