28.04.2026

ScotPlant 2026

ScotPlant was held at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh last week bringing together a record number of around 250 equipment manufacturers and their Scottish dealers. Up to 6,000 visitors were expected to have attended over the sunny Friday and Saturday.

The Vertikal team were on the ground and we provide an insight into the show below:

Visitors making their way into the exhibition centre

Registration

Leguan 135 Neo spider lift outside the exhibition centre

Point of Rental’s Tom Carter

Manitou Telehandlers on the A.T Best stand

Wacker Neuson's new 2.5t TH625 telehandler

Mac’s Trucks with Fassi loader crane

Snorkel's 13m/ 215kg A38E light weight articulated boom

(L-R) Dan Holgate of Hird with David Cairns & Leigh Baker of Nu-Hire who purchased three Oil & Steel Octopus spider cranes during the show

Harley Parkin of GGR with William Black of CPR following the order of a 1.5 tonne Almacrawler ML 1.5 FX compact tracked carrier
see: Tracked carrier for CPR
TVH with its Glassinter products

Usaamah Abdullah and Alesha Kamran of ABAX who will be joining Vertikal Days as a new exhibitor this year

Close Brothers Asset Finance

An Indespension trailer

Elliot Hawkins (L) and Norbert Hernyak of UpRate

The APS team (L-R) Jonathan Wiseman, Nick Johns and Tony Campana

Daniel Ezzatvar of Badger marketing (L) with Josh Wallman of Capja

An Ainscough self erecting mobile tower crane

Ainscough

Geraldine McElduff of Top Tags

The Tadano team (L-R) Chris Thomson, Lloyd Gee-Nyland and John Miller


Liebherr's stand with plenty of equipment on display

Stoddart’s crane on the Liebherr stand

Tibor Mikula of CTE showcased the 20m D220 vehicle mounted platform launched November last year

Gordons charity draw to win a Develon truck

Saren’s ‘little gem’

Crowland Cranes with Hoeflon products

Hoeflon UK made its Scotplant debut with Crowland Cranes (L-R) Wouter Van De Kolk & Jim Moon of Hoeflon, Jenny Issitt of Crowland Cranes and Hannah Moon of Hoeflon

Merlo telehandlers


The Nooteboom stand

A Faymonville trailer belonging to RJT

The 26.5m 265 spider lift from Leguan


The showground with blue skies


A 7.8m/230kg LS0610EC LiuGong scissor lift

An 8t/38.8m 360 degree Magni RTH8.39 telehandler

Magni’s stand

Niftylift with its hybrid HR12 boom and 120T trailer lift

JCB stand

JCB’s new 20m A60 articulated boom lift

LGMG in its red colours

LGMG AR32J-2 articulated boom with a telescopic and mast boom behind

King Rental with beavertail and low loader trailers

Scottish training and consultancy company Radd Training

The Mellex group

Sany stand

The JLG stand

A busy exhibition

Forsyths of Denny units

United Rental’s G300RS generator

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