Linden Comansa was a company which began manufacturing jig and tool in the early parts of the 1960s. They went by the name "Imausa". The company started out supplying mostly the bigger sub-contractors to the then booming automotive industry
Around that same time, there was a strong industrial expansion within Spain. This period saw Imausa making more sophisticated machine tools, jigs and various kinds of tools for both in-house and external applications. In addition, the corporation specialized in manufacturing pre-fabricated steel structures specially for industrial buildings.
The company's next and most logical step was into the crane market. The Spanish tourist industry exploded to rapidly become amongst the biggest tourism magnets within the world. This mass expansion of course brought a parallel demand for schools, housing and hospitals amongst other things. The company became very busy, really fast.
Production
The first simple cranes made were saddle-jib. These equipments were best suitable for the particular building methods being used during that 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 engineer and design cranes which exceed the 900 metric ton capacity. There is currently manufacturing and design facilities that allow the development and production of more incredible and even bigger machines.
There are some specific advantages provided by the unique Linden 8000 Modular System crane, that made it a logical addition to the range Linden Comansa offered to customers all over the world. These global customers have purchased approximately 12,000 Linden Comansa cranes in addition to the roughly 6000 machines made within Sweden by Linden-Alimak. These other cranes were manufactured before the acquisition of the world-wide selling and manufacturing rights of this particular modular system.