About Us

our story

Tandem Cranes is a Cape Town based company servicing the needs of clients in the Western Cape region with mobile crane, abnormal transport and specialist rigging services.

Established in 1985 by Dennis Gentry, the company started out as a predominantly rigging company.  As time went by, the company acquired it’s own mobile cranes and specialised transport vehicles.

Today the company is still owned and operated by the Gentry family.

our team

Tandem Cranes strives to offer excellent service, highest safety standards, state of the art equipment, fully trained staff and professional advice – making Tandem Cranes leaders in the mobile crane and rigging industry.

Our abnormal transport division services clients nationally and cross border into certain countries in Southern Africa.

We have a technical team available 24 hours a day to survey sites on behalf of our clients and seek formidable solutions to lifting and transport problems. We have our own full time in house safety officer ensuring safety standards are of highest regard.

our mission

Our mission is to ensure we comply with all legal statutory and customer requirements.

Therefore we will:

• Implement and maintain quality improvement programs through on-going oversight and regular performance assessments of our quality management system
• Implement and maintain a process for continually improving our products and services
• Provide safe and healthy work environment to our employees
• Provide training to our staff to ensure competent personnel are sent out in the field
• Distribute and control information for employee empowerment and informed decision making
• Ensure that appropriate resources are available to support the quality management system
• Document and communicate the results of assessments, recommendations for continuous improvement strategies