The Terex TFC 45 is a reach stacker, a wheeled machine that lifts shipping containers and stacks them several high in a port or inland terminal. The video shows one being operated, and the photograph shows Terex reach stackers at the south port of Chalon-sur-Saône in France.
Terex TFC at a glance
| Model | TFC 45 |
|---|---|
| Type | reach stacker |
| Use | container handling in ports and terminals |
| Maker | Terex Corporation |
| Division | Terex Cranes and port equipment |
| Crane brands | Terex and Demag |
| Port equipment background | Demag Cranes AG, bought by Terex in 2011 |
| Photo location | Chalon-sur-Saône, France |
| Brand created | 1968 |
| Brand origin | General Motors’ construction-equipment division |
No Wikipedia article covers the TFC 45; the page is based on the English and German articles about Terex and the English article on Demag. The model is identified from the video and the photograph.
History of the Terex TFC
Terex was created by General Motors in 1968 as a brand for construction equipment, after a court ruling forced GM to give up the Euclid off-highway truck business. The name came from the Latin terra (earth) and rex (king). GM sold the division to IBH in 1980 and took it back in 1983; from the later 1980s Terex grew as an independent corporation, buying specialist equipment makers.
Cranes and port equipment became one of the group’s branches. Terex Cranes combined the Terex and Demag names, and in 2011 Terex bought 82 per cent of Demag Cranes AG, which included the Gottwald port technology business. The division was renamed Terex Material Handling & Port Solutions, putting container-handling machines alongside the mobile and crawler cranes.
The TFC 45 is a reach stacker, a machine with a telescopic boom and a spreader that grips a container by its corners. Reach stackers are the flexible alternative to gantry cranes in smaller ports and inland terminals: they can lift containers from the ground, stack them and load them onto trucks or wagons without fixed rails. The video shows a TFC 45 in operation, and the photograph shows Terex reach stackers working at Chalon-sur-Saône.
Design and features
- Reach stacker: a telescopic-boom container handler with a spreader for the container corners.
- Port work: lifts, stacks and loads containers without fixed crane rails.
- Terex port division: part of the group that also owned Demag Cranes and Gottwald.
- TFC 45: the model shown in the video and at Chalon-sur-Saône.
Terex TFC versions
- TFC 45: the reach stacker shown in the video.
- Terex reach stackers: the wider family of TFC container handlers.
- Demag and Gottwald port equipment: the port technology that came with Demag Cranes AG.
- Terex MHPS: the material handling and port solutions division formed in 2011.
The Terex RT page covers the rough-terrain cranes, and the Terex Demag page the large all-terrain and crawler cranes. More machines are in the Terex collection.
Video: Operador Reach Stacker – Terex Tfc 45
Video on YouTube.
Sources
- Terex, English Wikipedia: company history and the Terex name
- Demag, English Wikipedia: Demag Cranes, Gottwald and the 2011 Terex takeover
- Terex, German Wikipedia: Terex Cranes and the German operations
