BAUMA CHINA 2026 Exhibit Reveal 3——Hi12

On most industrial sites, height is rarely the hard part. What slows a job down is everything in the way: production lines you cannot drive beneath, pipework and cable trays you cannot reach across, aisles too tight to turn in, and floor conditions that change every few metres. The usual workaround is familiar — bring in a second machine, reposition several times, or post a second person on the ground to watch the floor.

The HYNEE Hi12 was designed to take that workaround off the table. It concentrates the core capability of HYNEE’s Hi series into one chassis: 11.8m working height, 5.6m jib outreach, 360° continuous turntable rotation and a platform rated for 200kg and two occupants. It also carries HYNEE’s own fully automatic active pothole protection system, which turns the industry’s long-standing trade-off between ground clearance and elevated stability into a standard, factory-fitted function.

For anyone specifying or renting equipment, the value comes down to one sentence: work that once needed two different machines plus a second person watching the floor can now be done by one machine and one operator.

Continuous 360° turntable rotation

Continuous rotation is the capability that sets the Hi12 apart within the Hi series. The turntable slews through a full 360° with no limit stop to reset, and the chassis is zero-tailswing. Park the machine once in an aisle and the platform can work the whole circle around it — front, rear and both sides — without the operator coming down to reposition.

That freedom comes from the structure rather than from software. A 1.28m wheelbase and zero tailswing keep the mast and counterweight inside the machine’s own width while slewing, so the tail clears racking and pipework even in a narrow aisle. On high-frequency maintenance work — many points, short stops — every cycle of lowering, repositioning and re-levelling is paid labour. Removing those cycles is where the hours come back.

A 5.6m jib and 180° of platform rotation

The mast handles vertical reach; the jib handles everything horizontal. The Hi12’s jib extends 5.6m and articulates through 130° of vertical travel, which lets the platform reach over a production line, a machine or a pipe run and set down above or behind it — the places you cannot drive under. Jib angle is fed back by encoder in real time, so movement stays controlled and repeatable. In a power failure, a manual emergency lowering control brings the jib down under control rather than leaving anyone stranded at height.

The turntable sets the bearing and the jib clears the obstacle; the platform then handles the fine adjustment. It rotates 180° in plan, so the operator can square up to the work from inside the basket — no leaning out along a wall, no working off-axis after crossing a pipe run. With three layers working together — 360° at the turntable, 5.6m at the jib, 180° at the platform — the operator stays in one place and still covers most of a hemisphere.

Safety: active pothole protection, and a chain from sensing to emergency

For vertical mast lifts, tipping risk concentrates into one moment: the machine is elevated and a wheel drops into a pit, a floor joint or a sunken slab. The conventional answer is passive pothole protection — a mechanical structure that reacts once the wheel has already dropped.

HYNEE took a different route with the Hi12. Its fully automatic active pothole protection system deploys the protection plates as the platform rises, so a wheel is prevented from dropping into a void in the first place, and it lets the machine switch chassis ground clearance between operating states. That is what resolves the contradiction between two requirements that normally compete: enough clearance to travel over rough ground, and a low, stable stance once elevated.

Active monitoring

An overload sensor watches platform load continuously and, when the limit is exceeded, triggers audible and visual alarms and locks out the hazardous function. A tilt sensor monitors chassis attitude and alarms if the machine moves outside its permitted envelope. Each chain stage carries its own tension monitoring sensor, so a slack chain is detected before it becomes a fall risk.

Emergency and passive protection

Dual emergency stops — one at the platform, one at ground level — cut drive and lift power at any time. An emergency descent system on the main mast brings the platform down if power is lost. Load sensing is interlocked with the motion alarms, and the machine is fitted with standard lifting and tie-down points, so transport and craning always load the structure where it was designed to be loaded.

Where it earns its keep

Maintenance and inspection in steel-structure plants; put-away, picking and lighting work on high-bay racking; ceiling, façade and curtain-wall maintenance in malls and atriums; rigging, fitting out and commissioning in exhibition halls; and overhead services in large public buildings such as airport terminals and station concourses.

The common thread is many work points, many obstacles and narrow access. That is precisely where 360° rotation and a 0.99m wide chassis reinforce each other: arrive once, finish the zone, then move on.

Key specifications

The Hi12 is certified to European SGS and CE standards and is sold across China, Europe and North America. To see the machine working — and to test the active pothole protection for yourself — visit us at bauma CHINA 2026, Booth E.09, from 24 to 27 November.