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Stinis Lifting Equipment
Dutch family business founded 1830 (spreader manufacturing since 1967); six generations of engineers. Manufacturing in Netherlands (HQ) and Singapore. Serves 90+ ports worldwide; 400+ spreaders operating across North America. Annual revenue $68.8M (2024). Products: STS, MHC, yard crane, and straddle carrier spreaders. Privately held family business — one of the oldest companies in the crane spreader industry.
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Stinis — Krimpen aan de Lek, Netherlands →
NLKrimpen aan de Lek, Zuid-Holland · manufacturing
Family business HQ and primary manufacturing. Six generations of engineers since 1830; crane spreaders since 1967. R&D department co-located with manufacturing.
Stinis — Singapore (Secondary Manufacturing) →
SGSingapore · manufacturing
Secondary manufacturing facility serving Asia-Pacific markets.
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STS and MHC Crane Spreaders
65%Yard and Straddle Carrier Spreaders
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Did you know2024
Stinis, a crane spreader manufacturer serving 90+ ports worldwide, was founded in 1830 — making it older than the Netherlands railway network (1839), the Belgian state (1830 itself), and far older than the container shipping industry it now serves. Six generations of the same Dutch family have built lifting equipment from Krimpen aan de Lek, on the Lek River southeast of Rotterdam. The company pivoted to container spreaders in 1967 when containers first arrived at Rotterdam. A 194-year-old Dutch family engineering firm is one of the three dominant suppliers of the equipment that keeps container shipping moving.
Stinis ↗Origin2024
Stinis Holland was founded in 1830 in Krimpen aan de Lek, a small town on the Lek river in South Holland — a few miles from Rotterdam, which would become the world's largest seaport. The company existed as a family engineering and manufacturing business for 137 years before containerization created the spreader as a product category in the mid-1960s. In 1967, Stinis began manufacturing container spreaders, pivoting the six-generation family engineering tradition toward the new containerization wave at precisely the moment global trade was being reorganized around ISO containers. In 2024, the company — still family-owned and privately held — generated $68.8M in annual revenue. It is one of the few industrial companies in any sector with 193+ years of continuous family ownership.
Stinis Holland B.V. ↗Capacity2023
Stinis manufactures spreaders at two facilities — its historic Krimpen aan de Lek plant in the Netherlands and a Singapore manufacturing site — achieving 90+ port presence globally with 400+ spreaders operating in North America alone at $68.8M annual revenue. As an independent family business (vs. Bromma, which is part of publicly listed Kalmar, and ELME, which operates through OEM channels to major equipment brands), Stinis competes on premium custom engineering for demanding port environments, serving terminals that require non-standard specifications or prefer not to be locked into equipment-manufacturer vertical supply chains.
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