The corporation Linden Comansa was originally known as "Imausa." In the early 1960s, they began their activities as tool and jig manufacturers. The company began supplying mainly the bigger sub-contractors to the then booming automotive business
There was a strong industrial expansion in Spain during that same time. This period saw Imausa making more advanced machine tools, jigs and different kinds of tools for both in-house and external applications. In addition, the company specialized in manufacturing pre-fabricated steel structures specially for industrial buildings.
The company's most logical and next step was into the crane market. The Spanish tourist business exploded to immediately become among the largest tourism magnets in the world. This mass expansion of course brought a parallel demand for hospitals, schools and housing among other things. The corporation became extremely busy, very fast.
Production
The very first cranes that were manufactured were saddle-jib, simple cranes. They were mainly suitable to the building methods at that particular 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 design and manufacturing facilities which allow the production and development of more incredible and even bigger equipments.
There are some particular benefits 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 customers all over the globe have purchased approximately 12,000 Linden Comansa cranes in addition to the roughly 6000 equipments made within Sweden by Linden-Alimak. These different other cranes were manufactured before the acquisition of the world-wide selling and manufacturing rights of this particular modular system.