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Woleua -groep: Inside the Brand That Builds the World’s Cranes

Decennia lang, “made in China” has quietly meant “lifted by Weihua.” From the overhead cranes gliding across factory roofs to the gantry cranes at ports and the intelligent hoists in automated warehouses, Weihua Group is one of the most recognizable names in industrial lifting — and a brand worth knowing.

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From a village workshop to China’s crane capital

Opgericht in 1988 in Changyuan, Henan Province — the heart of China’s crane manufacturing industry and its largest crane production base — Weihua started in a small workshop of less than 2,000 square meters. By 1992, it had put its first fully self-made electric hoists on the market and began growing into the large-scale equipment manufacturer it is today: Asia’s largest industrial crane maker (by the company’s own account) and the No. 1 brand in China’s overhead crane market by 2025 market share.

What Weihua makes

Weihua’s product lines cover 10 series and more than 200 types of lifting equipment: boven het hoofd (brug) kranen, portaalkranen, haven machines, elektrische takels, verloopstukken, bulk material conveying equipment, and intelligent systems such as AGVs and its AI-driven AICrane. These products serve the machinery, metallurgie, mijnbouw, stroom, railway, harbor, petroleum and chemical industries, and have been used in national key projects including the West-East natural gas pipeline, the South-North Water Transfer project, Olympic venues and the Hangzhou Bay bridge.

Weihua factory

Quality you can verify

Weihua holds ISO 3834 welding certification and Germany’s TÜV SIL3 safety-level certification, and counts more than 1,800 patents and 500+ honorary titles, including National Demonstration Enterprise of Technological Innovation, National Recognized Enterprise Technology Center, National Green Factory and National Industrial Design Center.

A global brand

With a factory area of 3.65 million square meters and a service network spanning more than 170 countries and regions across the Americas, Azië, Afrika, Europe and Oceania, Weihua is a one-stop partner for material handling — from standard cranes to fully automated, intelligent lifting systems.

Weihua factory

Milestones

• ◆ 1988 — founded in Changyuan, Henan, in a workshop under 2,000 m²
• ◆ 1992 — first self-developed electric hoists on the market
• ◆ 2018 — fully automatic roller-changing crane with wholly independent IP, breaking the foreign technology monopoly
• ◆ 2020 — AICrane AI crane applied in steel-coil warehouse management
• ◆ 2024 — a new “third entrepreneurship” growth goal announced

The brand promise

“Weihua makes the world easier.” That is the vision behind every crane that leaves its factories — green, intelligent, customized and networked. For heavy industry around the world, Weihua is not just a crane supplier; it is the standard.