The company Linden Comansa was initially referred to as "Imausa." During the early parts of the 1960s, they started their activities as tool and jig makers. The company began supplying mainly the bigger sub-contractors to the then booming automotive industry
Around that same time, there was a strong industrial expansion in Spain. This period saw Imausa making more advanced machine tools, jigs and various types of tools for both external and in-house use. The corporation also specialized in making pre-fabricated steel structures particularly for industrial buildings.
Imausa's initiation into the crane market was an almost inevitable if not logical step. The Spanish tourist industry exploded to rapidly become one of the largest tourism magnets in the globe. This mass expansion of course brought a parallel demand for housing, hospitals and schools amongst different other things. The corporation became very busy, very fast.
Production
The first cranes that were produced were saddle-jib, simple cranes. They were mainly suitable to the building methods at that particular time. The first crane model eventually grew into a variety of cranes with a capacity ranging from 12 to 42 metric-tons.
By the early 1970s, Linden Comansa saddle-jib cranes had already met the 200 metric-ton barrier. Linden Comansa has surpassed the standard and has continued to engineer and design cranes that exceed the 900 metric ton capacity. There is currently manufacturing and design facilities which permit the development and production of more spectacular and even bigger machines.
There are some particular advantages provided by the unique Linden 8000 Modular System crane, that made it a logical addition to the range Linden Comansa provided to clients all around the globe. These global customers have bought around 12,000 Linden Comansa cranes in addition to the roughly 6000 machines manufactured by Linden-Alimak within Sweden. These different other cranes were made before the acquisition of the world-wide manufacturing and selling rights of this specific modular system.