About us
Work becomes easy.
CTE is the company that, since 1981, has been creating solutions to make your work at height simpler and safer. This is a promise.
A company with an Italian heart, and a history and international vocation that continues to place the customer at the centre of its projects and services.
We listen to the needs of every customer as if they were the only one: this is why companies from all over Italy and Europe rely on CTE to bring their projects, big and small, to life, finding a partner equal to their expectations.
Since 1981, we have manufactured and distributed more than 17,000 truck-mounted aerial platforms: our first guarantee of reliability. Alongside the growing number of machines, our wealth of knowledge and experience, relationships and safety culture has also grown – and we want to put it at your service.
A way of being, living, working
Efficient services, innovative technical solutions, prompt support, professional consulting and training: Work Becomes Easy is all of this.
A style, a philosophy centred on customers, their safety and their quality of life. That is why the team at CTE is united by ideas, motivation and passion for making work easier for companies active in the field of lifting people and goods.
More and more companies in Italy and Europe rely on CTE to bring their projects, big and small, to life, confident of finding a partner equal to their expectations and needs. From seemingly impossible to simply real.
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1981
The founding
CTE focuses on the production and sale of material lifts, in particular furniture-moving hoists.
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1987
A leader in the global market
CTE signs an exclusive agreement for Italy with the world’s leading manufacturer of self-propelled aerial platforms: Genie Industries.
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1989
Pratika
A rapidly successful product is born in Italy and Europe: the Pratika moving hoists.
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1992
Pianoplan
CTE acquires the Pianoplan patent, refining its range of equipment for moving heavy loads up stairs and across landings.
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1993
Genex
The world’s first company to manufacture fibreglass scaffolding is born. CTE expands into Europe.
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1997
A new home
CTE joins Sequani Meccanica; the Rivoli Veronese plant is built, where truck-mounted and tracked aerial platforms will be manufactured.
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2002
IPAF
CTE becomes an IPAF training centre. The CTE UK subsidiary is founded.
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2005
The group
Acquisition of Effer and Bizzocchi. One of the largest European groups in the field of lifting and handling materials and people is formed.
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2011
IAPA Awards
With the B-Lift 20.13 Multipurpose platform, CTE wins the award for best truck-mounted platform of the year at the IAPA Awards in Amsterdam.
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2017
IAPA Awards and Italplatform Award
With the CTE B-Lift 17E platform, CTE wins the award for best truck-mounted platform of the year at the IAPA Awards in London. At the Italplatform Awards, with the CTE ZED 15.2 mounted on a pick-up, CTE receives the award for best truck-mounted platform of the year, and with the H Stab System stabilization system, the special categories award.
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2018
Swedish Steel Prize Award
With the CTE MP 32.19 platform, CTE takes second place in the Swedish award.
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2021
40th Anniversary
CTE celebrates 40 years in business, looking to the future with an international vision that embraces all 5 continents.
Italplatform Award: with the TRACCESS 270 tracked platform, CTE wins the Product of the Year award in the self-propelled platforms over 6 m category.
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2022
Premio IAPA Awards
With S3 EVO, CTE wins the “Technological Innovation” award at the IAPA Awards in London. The CTE North America Corp. and CTE FRANCE SAS subsidiaries are founded.
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2024
Premio IAPA Awards
With the CTE MP 20 Ev full-electric truck-mounted platform, CTE wins “The Sustainability Award” at the IAPA Awards in Copenhagen.
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2025
Joining the Socage Group
CTE becomes part of the largest lifting group in the world.
