The UK's largest crawler crane hire
Weldex (weldex.co.uk) scores 73 out of 100 on Brand Analyzer, placing it in the Brand-Ready tier among Energy & Utilities brands, Manufacturing brands, Other brands, in the 35th percentile of 8052 Energy & Utilities brands.
Weldex is a UK-based crawler crane hire company and the largest of its kind in the UK, offering cranes, modular trailers, and associated lifting equipment for hire worldwide, both onshore and offshore. With a fleet ranging from 5 to 1350 tonnes and 40 years of experience, Weldex provides specialist lifting solutions and engineered services to industries such as oil and gas, power generation, civils, and stadia construction.
| Brand Name | Weldex |
|---|---|
| Domain | weldex.co.uk |
| Industry | Energy & Utilities, Manufacturing |
| Main Competitors | Sarens (74/100), Mammoet (88/100), Ainscough Crane Hire (82/100), Baldwins Crane Hire (72/100), ALE Heavylift |
Moz Domain Authority 31/100 vs category average 39 / leader 92 - limited third-party links, so AI systems rarely encounter mentions of the brand.
No Wikipedia presence was found - a major gap, since Wikipedia is among the most heavily weighted sources in AI training data.
The homepage meta description reads "The largest UK based crawler crane hire company. Our cranes, modular trailers and associated lifting equipment are available to hire world-wide, on or offshore." (Meta description: 24 words (ideal length). No OG description (falling back to meta)) - this is the summary AI engines are most likely to quote.
Structured data on the homepage: No structured data or Open Graph tags detected. Adding Organization and FAQ schema would further help AI crawlers parse the brand's identity.
AI-crawler access: robots.txt present, no AI bot restrictions - robots.txt controls whether engines like GPTBot and ClaudeBot can read the site at all.
Detected tech stack: Apache.
Social footprint: verified profiles on X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, GitHub; no detected presence on LinkedIn, YouTube - consistent profiles reinforce the brand's identity across the web.
0 Reddit mentions - community discussion signals real-world reputation to AI models.
Live results from asking a general-purpose AI assistant about the brand, checked October 2026.
When asked "What is Weldex?", Claude could not identify the brand as of October 2026. I don't genuinely recognize Weldex at weldex.co.uk, likely because it's a smaller or regional UK company with limited presence in my training data.
When asked "Best brands similar to Weldex?", Claude would not surface Weldex as of October 2026. I can't vouch for or recommend a company I don't have verified knowledge of.
Common questions people ask in Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI search engines.
Weldex's main competitors in Energy & Utilities: Sarens (74/100), Mammoet (88/100), Ainscough Crane Hire (82/100), Baldwins Crane Hire (72/100).
Sources: Brand Analyzer scan
Weldex offers crawler cranes ranging from 5 to 1350 tonnes, modular trailers, and associated lifting equipment, along with engineered solutions for specialist and complex lifting operations, available for hire both onshore and offshore worldwide.
Sources: Weldex official site
Weldex is the largest UK-based crawler crane hire company, providing cranes, modular trailers, and associated lifting equipment for hire worldwide, for use in both onshore and offshore operations.
Sources: Weldex official site
Weldex has low AI-search visibility, scoring 18/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI visibility composite (visibility 0, trust 22, recommendation 45). This estimates how likely AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are to know, trust, and recommend the brand.
Sources: Weldex official site
Weldex hires out crawler cranes, modular trailers, and associated lifting equipment, and provides engineered solutions for complex and challenging lifting operations across industrial sectors worldwide.
Sources: Weldex official site
Weldex scores 45/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI recommendation signal, indicating it is less likely to be surfaced when AI assistants like ChatGPT suggest Energy & Utilities options. Recommendation depends on crawlability, structured data, and category authority.
Sources: Weldex official site
Weldex is known for operating the UK's largest fleet of crawler cranes, ranging from 5 to 1350 tonnes, and for its 40 years of experience delivering complex on and offshore lifting operations globally.
Sources: Weldex official site
Weldex can improve AI discoverability by strengthening structured data (Organization and FAQ schema), maintaining an accurate Wikipedia/Wikidata entity, earning authoritative citations, and keeping content crawlable for AI bots. Brand Analyzer measures these as visibility, trust, and recommendation signals.
Sources: Weldex official site
Weldex's services are used by industrial sectors such as oil and gas, offshore, power generation, civils, and stadia construction that require heavy or complex crane and lifting solutions.
Sources: Weldex official site
Weldex scores 18/100 for AI visibility - how well ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can discover, identify and cite the brand.
Weldex has a weak AI-visibility profile at 18/100 - a proxy for how readily ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can recognise and cite it. Its strongest area is recommendation likelihood (45/100) and its weakest is visibility (0/100). It benefits from open access for AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.). The main gaps holding it back: no clear Wikipedia entity to anchor it in LLM training data, no strong Wikidata entry and a low Moz Domain Authority of 31/100. In a live check (October 2026), Claude could not identify Weldex from memory, confirming the gaps above.
The score combines seven dimensions - name quality, digital presence, visual identity, messaging clarity, trust foundation, AI discoverability, and brand authority - into a single objective benchmark.
Ranked closest to Weldex: Weishaupt (73/100), Comply (formerly WegoWise) (73/100), Wendelsteinbahn (73/100), Bundesverband WindEnergie e.V. (BWE) (73/100).
A step up - brands to learn from: ZeroNorth (81/100), The York Water Company (81/100).
Category leader: Electrek (96/100).
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