Ari Kiviniitty joined Konecranes in 1983 and in recent years has been R&D manager, run the hoist factory, and vice president of the Standard Lifting Equipment division. He was promoted to chief technology officer last year. Kiviniitty headed up the project team that developed the CXT hoist platform that is also the basis of the SWF Nova, Verlinde VT and R&M SX. He is also chairman of Technology Industries of Finland Working Group for Materials Handling and Hoisting Equipment and head of the FEM’s overhead crane statistics unit.
