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Top 25 Heavy lift operators based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 542 heavy lift operators headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 7,347 professional contacts across them, including 2,601 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers heavy lift operators headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest heavy lift operators based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 627 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ainscough Crane Hire is the market leader for lifting solutions and services to the infrastructure, construction, power generation, and industrial markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 374 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With over 30 years’ experience, Select has built an excellent reputation as one of the UK’s largest – and most diverse – as the supplier of choice for equipment, accommodation and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 320 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A long-standing, trusted provider of comprehensive temporary works solutions in the construction industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Motive Offshore Group specialises in the design, manufacture, rental, and inspection of marine and lifting equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Walters Group provides a customer led, compliance driven and delivery focused service across a range of industries and sectors centred around civil engineering, plant and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quattro Group is an infrastructure specialist, providing professionally operated equipment services to the rail, road and construction industries, nationwide, 24-7.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “After four decades of providing excellent service and value for money, King Lifting is today the leading Crane Hire, Heavy Lift, Machinery Movement and Transport specialist in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GGR Group is the UK’s leading specialist lifting solutions provider, trusted by industries nationwide for over 30 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the largest tower crane supplier in the United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Explore is a specialist supplier of Transport and Plant Hire services to varied industries including construction, rail and aerospace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hiab is a leading provider of smart and sustainable load handling solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Osprey believes that integrated engineered logistics, on land and by water, can transform the way critical UK infrastructure is built.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Paterson Simons & Co.(Africa) Ltd.[PSAL] specialises in sales, lease, rental and service of lifting and handling equipment with a focus on shipping, mining and industry in West…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1949, the Liebherr Group comprises over 140 companies on all continents and employs 47,925 people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BALDWINS CRANE HIRE LIMITED is a construction company based out of Station Yard Compound, SLOUGH, BERKSHIRE, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Emerson is the leading mobile crane hire company in the South of UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Street Crane is the UK’s largest overhead crane and hoist manufacturer, established in 1946.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2003, London Tower Crane Hire and Sales Limited (LTC) offers a comprehensive tower crane service which encompasses every aspect of crane management and is tailored…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Radius Group is a premium service-oriented lifting solutions provider, based in Northampton, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HIRD Ltd have extensive experience in many forms of lifting & moving equipment hire and sales.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “City Lifting is a specialist crane hire company, with an enviable reputation for providing high quality equipment and machinery, alongside excellent customer service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tees Business of the Year 2025 We are RS Industrial Services – an independent supplier of material handling and engineering products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bryn Thomas Cranes provides a one-stop-shop for all your lifting requirements.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Allied Access is a leading provider of advanced access solutions, specialising in mast climbing work platforms, scaffolding, and construction hoists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1979, Davies Crane Hire Ltd is a family run business and one of the largest independent crane hire companies in Wales.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: heavy lift operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names heavy lift operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of heavy lift operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name heavy lift operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Heavy lift operators based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 542 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among heavy lift operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “heavy lift operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names heavy lift operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among heavy lift operators, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,601 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Heavy lift operators by metro
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names heavy lift operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many heavy lift operators are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 542 heavy lift operators headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Ainscough Crane Hire, headquartered in Standish, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most heavy lift operators?
London leads with 29 headquartered companies, followed by Sheffield (12) and Glasgow (9).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,601 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 542 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.