President says, “50 years is just the beginning — the best is yet to come.”
“From the very beginning, Genie has been working to develop products that solve our customers’ worksite challenges — and that process never ends,” says Brad Allen, Vice President of Genie Marketing, Product Management and Engineering. “Our team of product managers and engineers uses customers’ inputs to design new products, featuring the latest technology to meet changing needs. We manufacture our products to stringent standards that help increase quality, lower costs and provide a high rental return on invested capital (rROIC).”
In the last 50 years, Genie has gone above and beyond in its product development efforts, focusing on what customers need to be successful in their industries and applications — Genie innovations are changing the market and setting the industry standard for quality, reliability and safety in aerial lift equipment. Over the last five decades, Genie has become known for developing innovative products that make work at height more productive, including:
Genie also set new standards in the industry for many products and technologies that have become widely adopted in the last 50 years, including dual parallelogram, rotating, fully articulating and extending jibs, true crab steering and the TraX™ track drive system.
- The dual parallelogram lift linkage allows Genie Z-boom operators to vertically track walls by simply raising or lowering the secondary boom without needing to re-position the machine.
- The market’s first rotating jib was pioneered on the Genie Z-30/20 boom lift. This feature is still used on several Genie products today.
- Fully articulating jibs were first introduced on early Genie S™-60 telescopic boom models. Before the advent of this feature, jibs were only able to be articulated parallel with the main boom. With the fully articulating feature, operators are able to articulate the jib above the boom and get in, up and behind objects quickly and easy.
- True crab steering was first pioneered on the Genie S™-125 telescopic boom to eliminate hydraulically or mechanically linking the left and right tires with only basic steering geometry. By independently driving each tire, operators can (thru the use of angle sensors) do basic steering geometry, steer all the tires the same angle one direction (crab steering) and do four-wheel steering.
- Genie was the first to bring the four-point TraX track drive system to the industry as a way to provide increased terrainability and lower contact pressure for reduced damage to sensitive ground surfaces on aerial products such as the company’s Z- and S-booms.
