“I don’t get who will win after the dust has settled,” HCME president on Trump’s latest tariff push

Lewis Tyler Editor, Demolition & Recycling International

01 July 2025

With US President Donald Trump remaining tight-lipped over whether he plans to extend a 90-day tariff pause, construction manufacturers around the world are, for a second time this year, attempting to navigate their way through a difficult geo-political landscape. Francesco Quaranta, the recently-appointed president and CEO of Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe tells Lewis Tyler why his company is taking a ‘wait and see’ approach and how demand from rental customers in Europe remains strong.

Francesco Quaranta Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe president and CEO Francesco Quaranta. Photo: HCME

“You read the news every day and it’s not good stuff,” says Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) N.V. (HCME) president and CEO Francesco Quaranta.

It’s a gloomy sentiment for the man who last year took the role of president and CEO of Hitachi Construction Machinery’s European branch, the Japanese…

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